literary fiction for genre readers
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- Genre readers listen up!! Are you curious about literary fiction but don't know where to start? This video is for YOU.
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"There's more invention and more intricate fictional craft in most newly released Fantasy and Romance novels than there is any of the pseudo-profound, solipsistic nonsense that hovers around as 'literary fiction'."
Can't reply to this comment for some reason but what a ridiculous comment. Someone cracked out their basic thesaurus for this one! I've never understood criticisms of literary or more serious, profound fiction as 'pseudo-intellectual' or pseudo anything, but I do know its a criticism beloved by salty YA and fantasy readers who haven't grown up in their tastes and don't want to admit it. No, i'm not saying all YA and fantasy is adolescent drivel, but come on, genre fiction is usually designed to be satisfying and wish-fulfilling entertainment - it's designed to follow tropes and give you comfy feels that don't challenge you or contain too much depth or realism. It's called escapism for a reason - it's comfort reading, and that's fine, but it can be REALLY basic and cheesy, and also derivative and badly written. a lot of writers are also blatantly cashing in on how lucrative these genres can be.
But yeah, I love that you prefer literary fiction to genre, that you're confident in saying that, it's really hard to find youtubers who do, and the pleasures to be found in that are to me, more rewarding in the long run
I’m a BIG literary horror fan! Tender is the Flesh and Our Wives are ✨chiefs kiss✨
Another one of my faves is Monstrillio 💛
ALSO I think fantasy lit fic would be books like Circe and Piranesi
i've heard sooo many good things about monstrillio!
ah thank you! i haven't read either of these
@@SlaggyBookClubit’s soooo devastating and beautiful. I also second the person who said Chlorine and Natural Beauty 😁
Im currently reading Shark Heart and I think it could possibly be a literary option for Fantasy readers
Literary horror is wonderful! I've read 2 of the 3 you suggested, just missing Nightbitch. For you, I think you could enjoy It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken, that's a beautiful existential book set in the apocalypse from the POV of a zombie who has forgotten who she was and questions her existence. Chlorine by Jade Song and Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang are also fantastic feminist stories
Taking note ✍️
regarding literary fantasy, I never even really considered it, but most of my favorite fantasy books lean smaller scale/more literary in tone. The Night Ship by Jess Kidd is a historical fantasy based on real events of the sinking of the Dutch ship the Batavia, but the fantasy part is SO small, and the 1989 timeline is in Australia where the ship sank! I also think Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee leans more literary, there are some creatures but it's very contained and a novella.
Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro is an excellent lit fic crime novel and We Spread by Iain Reid is my favourite lit fic horror.
Wouldn't Mona Awad's All's Well fall into literary magical realism?
Oooh great recs, v good point about All’s Well
Love your recommendations but maybe tone down the condescension??
Definitely didn’t mean to be condescending! I’m not sure which part you’re referring to but would love the opportunity to clarify any misunderstanding
I would argue that Poor Thins is in fact so much science fiction that it isn't literary fiction. It's a sci-fi classic from the 90s that only gets called literary fiction now because it got an artsy film
cameron. the only crime here is that you still haven't done a bookshelf tour
babes you’re doing gods work x
Last day of the week, really want to take a nap and your here ! Thanks for this.
A literary fiction novel with dragons could be When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, which is more of a female-rage historical fiction novel than a fantasy… but still dragons 🐉 x
ok wait this sounds so good
Calling all genre fiction predictable, and therefore robotic on the writers' behalf, is obviously ridiculous. There's more invention and more intricate fictional craft in most newly released Fantasy and Romance novels than there is any of the pseudo-profound, solipsistic nonsense that hovers around as 'literary fiction'. Secondly, if you ONLY read literary fiction, how can you be considered a worthy authority on any other genre?
Joe I literally didn’t say that at all
did you watch a different video and comment here by mistake?
As far as genre fiction goes, saying you know what you're getting yourself into isn't stating that it's predictable. Perhaps there are people who haven't been exposed to "intricate fictional craft in newly released fantasy and romance novels", but you know what, that is completely okay. What is ridiculous, is the use of words such as "pseudo-profound" or "nonsense" for some of the themes of an entire genre to defend your misinterpretations. Lastly, one doesn't have to consider themselves a "worthy authority" to talk about their favourite genre and the art that comes with it on their OWN channel.
@@SlaggyBookClub You said that genre fiction "follows a certain formula" when in fact there is an infinite variety of complications and nuances involved in the writing and reading of it, so bagging them all up as 'formulaic' is horridly insulting. All of which is irrelevant because, as you said earlier in the video, you don't read ANYTHING other than literary fiction. So you're as much of an authority on genre fiction as I am on astrophysics or blanket knitting! How do you know it's formulaic if you've never jumped into a single example of it?🤣
@@kurt.hert12 I think stating that you know what you're getting into is very similar to predictability. Secondly, you do have to consider yourself familiar with a genre if you're going to discuss its differences with another one.