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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Read enough genre fiction? Why not try Literature?
 
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Crespolini
Mar 9, 2014

ToxicFrog posted:


I'm no longer entirely sure what the point of this post was, except perhaps to explain why I was so surprised to see Eco represented here -- his books are fun, gripping, accessible³, and slot neatly into existing genre categories, i.e. everything that literary fiction isn't (or, at least, everything that the loudest proponents of literary fiction seem to want it not to be).


The lit-crowd on this forum and probably everywhere loves Eco and are vocal about saying it

E: even permabanned user and genre-reader-boogieman extraordinaire Bravestofthelamps used The Name of the Rose as an example of how do it right in his gently caress patric rothfus thread

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