Idiots, Stimpy. Idiots.

[impy]

Various things I loathe:

Oversleeping. Your favorite food tasting like crap just when you were so looking forward to yummy goodness. Having to work. Stupid people. Literary snobs.

That last one bugs me more than most. Christ, bitches, in this day and age when reading some abysmally low number of books/magazines/cereal boxes counts as fantastic, you're going to sit there and quibble over what people chose to read and then bitch mightily when you yourself are essentially reading a book that tells you what to read? He who can't hack it past five books in a month does not get to give anyone else crap over their choices in reading material. If they want to read cheese, then let them read cheese.

Granted, I was okay with their rant [which I'd link to if a) I still had the link and b) didn't feel that directing anyone that way would be violating the rules] right up until he was bitching about what people choose to read. Sure, it was a slam on the SVH I love so much, but that's not for everyone, and I know that. But then they slam just about everything else under the sun. I don't like cheesy romances for the most part, I like mine supernaturally flavored. Not everyone can get the hang of manga, nor do they want to, but I'll be damned if someone reading a best-of-the best books kind of book gets to insinuate that there aren't some fantastic stories that just so happen to fall under the comic/manga umbrella. Snob. Sure, there are some things I think are utter crap [and I mock the book o' books, but it's essentially a list, and I like lists, but reading a list doesn't make you better than anyone else] and I'll bitch about why, oh why, would anyone read such a thing, but I try to be specific. Like the crappy book written by some local author. I think it was crap. If I could remember it, I'd check it out from the library again and write down the fantastic butchering of simple phrases my nephew can manage to not mangle.

G'ah. I need to shower and sleep and take over the world before bedtime!

Comments

[ex-hellololl492.livejournal.com]

i could not agree more. i am not very fond of fantasy/sci fi as genres, but whatever floats people's boats and make them happy. reading is a pleasure, not a virtue.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hallow_/]

I get SO annoyed at literary snobs. They don't seem to get that genre books can be just as good as literary books. I had a "friend" and I use those quote marks HEAVILY because this "friend" was the Smelly Girl I used to blog about, who once said to me that mass market books were just not as well written as hardcover books, so that's what she read. And I said, "you're wrong and it's painful." Then I had to go into detail explaining to her about how mass market books just appeal to a different audience of reader and that a lot of times, publishers will try out a book/series in mass market and let it prove itself in the market before giving it a hardcover release (which I hate by the way, because then it screws up my collection because I refuse to wait for the MM edition). This is true for Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kim Harrison, and now Kelley Armstrong. Those authors are all in HC first now.

I also didn't tell her this, but it is something that I have come to learn -- those literary books might seem impressive but other than the few highly successful ones, genre books stick around longer than literary books. Genre books work better for the backlist (already published and continually selling books) than literary stuff does, because once the publicity spotlight is off of them, if they aren't already acclaimed, they're forgotten. So MYEH (that's me sticking out my tongue) to all those literary snobs out there. There is something worthy within every different type of book out there and loathe those who judge others for what they read, as if that makes them less smart or less worthy of respect.

I READ BOOKS ABOUT WEREWOLVES AND FAIRIES AND I'M PROUD OF IT! WOO!!!

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

^ And this is just one of the reasons I love you so. :D You get all worked up, make sense, and even give a couple of quotes I need on a sign or a shirt or something.

I seriously need a little sign to hold up that says, "You're wrong and it's painful."

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hallow_/]

LOL! YAY! Next stop -- t-shirts!