Blog Post #6

               Yes, I believe readicide is a problem in EVERY school. This is because all schools and teachers ruin any book they have their class read and force everyone to do assignments that ask you to think about things in the book that you would normally not even consider and just pass on as if it was just a normal sentence. I do think that genre fiction is “worthy” because it is more likely to be interesting to most people in the class than some literary book that appeals to an eighty year-old librarian who is from the 1930’s and has a completely different taste than people of THIS generation have. So yes, I do believe that genre fiction is “worthy”, I also believe that it is even more worthy than some of these “classics” that people actually consider good, because they are not, they are long, boring, complicated books that suck the very life out of the reader.

                No school should teach literary fiction as a class book because, it combines an incredibly boring book with “activities” that are also incredibly boring and nearly purposeless themselves. Not only do you have to do these at your own pace, you have to do them for long, drawn out periods of time that could last even for months which is triple the amount of time that actually reading the book would take. This almost always leaves you absolutely despising the book.

                Most literary fiction books tend to be plotted into the past, and involve events that a good fraction of people already know how they end, not accomplishing the whole purpose of a story which is to either educate or to entertain, mostly the latter than the former.  Any chance anyone would get to switch out a literary fiction book for a genre fiction book should jump for it. To a point. I’m not asking for literary fiction books to go extinct, I’m asking that the truly good books get the credit that they deserve.