I Don't Believe In A Room With That Many Stienbeck Fans

[redbrunja]

So, for my editing and publishing class we had to write a letter about our personal reading and writing tastes.... and while a lot of people mentioned the trashy books they loved as children (seriously, I think loving horrible books is part of growing up), each one was sure to list the books they liked now, all of which were the kind of books you would never be embarrassed about to be caught reading in public (with one bonus diss at fanfic, just for kicks).

Which, given my genre tastes, made me really sad. Seriously, am I the only person who didn't grow into reading classy books?

This week's fannish5 :

Name your five favorite fictional kids.

5.) Bailey, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

4.) Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family.

3.) The Listener, Legend of the Seeker.

2.) Scout Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird.

1.) The Archive. (Ivy! How are you so awesome, little Miss Badass?)

Comments

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Classy books? Often excellent.

Dissing on fanfiction to prove how cool you are? Not classy.

(Yes, a lot of it is hilariously bad, but what do you expect in a genre that's completely freely self-published with no editorial restrictions? The good stuff is worth sorting through the dross.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I get so uncomfortable when fanfic is brought up in my college classes. It's happened in two of them so far and I always just cringe.

I'm not sure why - it's not like people can tell my looking at me that I write fanfic - but I just feel like something that is personal is being dragged out for people to chat about and I don't like it.

Also, I'm conversative in that part of me really feels often times fanfic is not an appropriate subject for college classes.