I just finished this book a few days ago and a lot of things I find online talk about this book as if it is all drama and no substance. I rated it 3.75/5.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't think this book has a profoundly complex or deep thesis. (Three women center their relationships with men above their own well-being in a multitude of ways. Not hard to understand the meaning.) But I also disagree with the idea that it's just purely entertainment.
I just want to know exactly what makes this book "trashy". I can think of classics that are dramatic with simple meanings that are still respected.
I'm not trying to argue or change people's perspective. I'm partially worried that maybe I'm unable to recognize when a book has literary merrit tbh.
by brokenrosies
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Because there’s always a crowd of intellectual snobs who sneer down at popular fiction that has mass appeal.
I remember seeing a literature panel in the late 1990’s savagely critiquing Sir Terry Pratchett’s work. I can’t recall their names or if they wrote anything worthwhile but I can say PTerry’s work is read globally so… yeah…
GNU PTerry
You have to put yourself in the overall sensibilities of the reading public in 1966.