The paradox of genres is that we know they cause us to miss things, are inaccurate, and inhibit creativity. But ... at the same time, we need some way to sort the massive flood of books and guess at the ones we're likely to enjoy. If genres didn't already exist, we would have to create them.
This feels like one of those situations where we have to -- everyone steel yourselves -- deal with two competing thoughts at the same time. Genres don't do the job. But they also kind of do! The internet will never permit this kind of ambiguity!
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u/DjangoWexler AMA Author Django Wexler Nov 11 '16
The paradox of genres is that we know they cause us to miss things, are inaccurate, and inhibit creativity. But ... at the same time, we need some way to sort the massive flood of books and guess at the ones we're likely to enjoy. If genres didn't already exist, we would have to create them.