Tuesday, March 12, 2019

A genre you will never read

There was a "Nope book tag" going on on YouTube, and one of the prompts was
"7. NOPE. Genre:
A genre you will never read."
Most people have nothing to say about this, because most people are pretty omnivorous when it comes to reading, but I think it might also be because people don't know much about genres.

So... is there anything on this list that sounds uninteresting or downright repugnant?

Absurdist/surreal/whimsical
Action
Adult Literature
Adventure Fiction
Airport Novel
Alien Invasion
Allegory
Alternative History
Antinovel
Apocalyptic
Atompunk
Bildungsroman
Biography, Autobiography, Memoir
Biopunk
Bizarro Fiction
Black Comedy
Body Horror
Campus Novel / Varsity Novel
Children's Books
Christian Fiction, Islamic Fiction, Jewish Fiction, religious fiction of any kind
Classic
Climate Fiction (cli-fi)
Clockpunk
Comedy
Comedy Horror
Comedy of Errors (farce)
Comedy of Manners
Comedy-drama
Comic Fantasy
Comics/graphic Novel
Contemporary
Contradiction
Cosmic
Crime
Cyberpunk
Dark Fantasy
Detective Fiction
Dieselpunk
Disaster Thriller
Drama
Dying Earth
Dystopian Fiction
Education Fiction
Epic
Epistolary Fiction
Ergodic Literature
Erotica
Existentialist Fiction
Experimental Fiction
Fable
Fairy Tale
Family Saga
Fan Fiction
Fantasy
Fictional Biography
Folktale
Ghost Story
Gothic Fiction
Heroic Fantasy
High Fantasy
Historical Fiction
Holocaust Novels
Horror
Humor
Imaginary Voyage
Juvenile Fantasy
Lab Lit
Legal Thriller
Legend
LGBT Fiction
Light Novel
Literary Fiction
Literary Nonsense
Lost World
Low Fantasy
Magical Realism
Mathematical Fiction
Matron Literature
Medical Fiction
Medieval Fantasy
Melodrama
Men's Adventure
Metafiction
Milesian Tale
Military Fiction
Monster Literature
Musical Fiction
Mystery Fiction
Mythic
Mythology
Mythopoeia
Nanopunk
Neo-slave Narrative
New Weird
Nonfiction Novel
Novel of Ideas
Occult
Occupational Fiction
Parallel Universe, Aka Alternative Universe
Paranoid Fiction
Paranormal Fantasy
Parody
Pastiche
Philosophical Fiction
Picaresque Novel (picaresco)
Play
Political Fiction
Post-apocalyptic
Prehistoric Fiction
Psychological
Psychological Thriller
Pulp Fiction
Punk
Quantum Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Regency Novel
Roman à Clef
Romance
Romp
Saga
Satire
School Story
Science Fantasy
Science Fiction
Scientific Romance
Screwball Comedy
Sea Story
Slasher Fiction
Slave Narrative
Slipstream
Social Fiction
Soft Science Fiction
Space Opera
Speculative Fiction
Splatterpunk
Sports Fiction
Spy Fiction
Steampunk
Subterranean Fiction
Superhero Fiction
Supernatural / Paranormal
Survival Horror
Survivalism
Suspense/thriller
Swashbuckler
Tall Tale
Thriller, Suspense
Tragedy
Tragicomedy
Travelogue
Urban Fantasy
Urban Fiction
Utopian Fiction
Vampire Fiction
Weird Fiction
Werewolf Fiction
Western
Women's Fiction
Workplace Tell-all
Young Adult Fiction
Zombie Fiction


I know Slasher fiction is something that sounds abhorrent to me and I find no way I would ever willingly read anything like that. Marquis de Sade is close enough. I wish I had never read a word by him, I wish books like that were never written, my disgust is so strong that I would accept liking his books as a reason of capital punishment, because I can't imagine there's anything right with those people, and they will end up sooner or later hurting people or justifying people being hurt. Brr.
So Body Horror and Splatterpunk are out, obviously.

Another literary genre - or sub-genre I find hard to see me reading is celebrity memoirs, and with celebrity I mean the people who are famous just because they are famous, like "known from TV", most every famous person who is younger than 30, people who are famous because they are pretty or married some other famous person, person who are famous because they did something stupid or are involved in some scandal or another. I mean, I read happily Michelle Obama's, Katherine Hepburn's or J.R.R.Tolkien's biography, but I will never read Kim Kardashian's or Paris Hilton's memoirs.

Workplace tell-all sounds really stupid also.

Other genres I'll probably never read are: survivalism, sports fiction, political fiction, paranoid fiction, military fiction, medical fiction, mathematical fiction, lablit, existentialist fiction, Ergodic Literature sounds boring as hell, too, I'm not into Dying Earth and Dystopian novels, either, though I know I'm going to read those subgenres. Most punks sound uninteresting as well, like cyberpunk, atompunk, nanopunk etc. Steampunk sounds good, though :-D Alien Invasion sci-fi is also non-interesting to me. I'm not into misery, suffering and oppression.

Anyway, it would be a good reading challenge.

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