Trashy Books

[ailbhe]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed at this as a categorisation. Yes, I have used it myself. But I don't understand how it's used - some people use to to mean "genre I don't like", some use it to mean "plot I don't like", some use it to mean "badly written", and some use it to mean "popular". What makes a book trash?

I think that I tend to use it to mean "poorly thought out" or "unoriginal and badly written". But I suspect I have also used it to mean "popular romance".

Can you think of any genres which you think of as "trash"?

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Re: Trashy Books

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, exactly. especially when i have trouble sleeping for physiological reasons, i often don't have enough neurons firing to read something that does make me think, but i'd dearly like to escape from tossing and turning. i love escapist fluff for that, and i am glad there is so much around