Anonymous wrote:I do feel like authors thing that depressing=serious and I’ve read more than one book where they just throw in rapes or whatever to up the trauma level.
I affirmatively seek out literature that is less depressing. I think I started a thread on it. Once I read that book about the plague that leaves people blind and leads to a dystopia or violence, I was like uhhh…I’m done with this stuff.
Ha, if you are referencing Saramago's Blindness, I would say that is the exception to the rule because that was a truly excellent book. Generally though, I am in agreement with OP. I am hopeful though that we are at least over the hump of the worst of the "tragedy porn" trend in lit fic.