Comments on: People are always stranger than fiction http://thefourthside.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/people-are-always-stranger-than-fiction/ Because reality makes much less sense than it should Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:03:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Chad http://thefourthside.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/people-are-always-stranger-than-fiction/#comment-17 Chad Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:20:26 +0000 http://thefourthside.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-17 <i>Value means something different to each of us.</i> Aesthetic value, anyway. Really, the only safe generalization to make about entire book genres is that they are such broad categories that making generalizations is probably not all that useful an exercise in the first place. Individual books, on the other hand, can more easily and convincingly be defined in terms of value based on criteria like originality, ingenuity, complexity, and overall intellectual merit. Value means something different to each of us.
Aesthetic value, anyway.

Really, the only safe generalization to make about entire book genres is that they are such broad categories that making generalizations is probably not all that useful an exercise in the first place.

Individual books, on the other hand, can more easily and convincingly be defined in terms of value based on criteria like originality, ingenuity, complexity, and overall intellectual merit.

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