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[quote=Anonymous]All right, my brain has just exploded. I am buzzing with excitement. For a really long time, I had a problem with how modern literary fiction is becoming increasingly obsessed with overwrought style, affectations, deliberately reducing the action in the novel to appear less "low-brow", and a lot of other things. And full disclosure here, I'm currently working on a fantasy novel myself and I've been really upset about how high-brow, intellectual, literary fantasy fiction gets dismissed by the "literary establishment" while a lot of less thought-provoking (in my opinion) realist novels get short-listed for the Booker. (I'm sorry but Kerri Hulme’s "The Bone People" is actually just...not that great in my opinion, I don't know how that book won the Booker.)

Anyway, I just read B. R. Myers amazing work of literary criticism, The Reader's Manifesto, and my brain exploded. He articulated everything I've ever thought since high school, but way better than I could and with more confidence than I would be able to.

For those of you who don't want to spend money on his book (you should though), here is a highly condensed version of what he's saying, written for The Atlantic:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/07/a-readers-manifesto/302270/

I know that DCUM has professors, writers, journalists, and all other sorts. Do you agree with Myers and what I think? I can't be the only person who feels this way.[/quote]

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