tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344853420220777382.post1784983611399795881..comments2022-04-08T14:37:55.402-07:00Comments on Iceberg Ink: Rant: Summoning the collective ire of Book Bloggers is a poor ideaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344853420220777382.post-79480001781443003752011-06-28T11:39:05.762-07:002011-06-28T11:39:05.762-07:00Thanks for your comments Stefan, much appreciated!...Thanks for your comments Stefan, much appreciated!GunMetalBluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10374362891687088611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8344853420220777382.post-70511893737506986872011-06-28T08:46:43.837-07:002011-06-28T08:46:43.837-07:00I have generally stuck to a policy of avoiding man...I have generally stuck to a policy of avoiding many long comment-threads/-discussions. People on the internet can often be quite, quite scary. Particularly those who comment on magazine and newspaper articles. I'm happy that, in the main, book bloggers and book blog-readers tend to be rather civil.<br /><br />The accusations of not reading "serious literature" are as old as reading. Let's not forget that many of the classic authors wrote in the equivalent of Readers' Digest, and were rarely considered "serious literature": Dickens and Shelley, for example.<br /><br />I think you're totally right about newspapers missing the boat on genre fiction: there are a growing number of readers who have been watching sci-fi/fantasy/supernatural/horror shows and movies in their formative years, so it is natural to suppose that, as some of these people enter journalism, then we will see a more mainstream acceptance of genre fiction, etc. The Guardian in the UK is doing a pretty good job of writing about sci-fi (haven't seen much about fantasy, but I admit to not having looked very hard).Stefanhttp://civilian-reader.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com