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Interesting read, this post

I agree with his POV on TR, at least the part where he said and to quote: "there's no one specific novel that stands out like a banned book the masses can call their own."

Why could this be? Allow me to give you my take.

If one is in search of a media that promulgates social awareness, then one should turn his head away from TR novels, else expect to be disappointed. The thrust of TR as a genre is to entertain. It is what the readers were counting on when they willingly shelled out their precious thirty-five bucks. It is what we as writers aim to deliver so as not to disappoint. Can I put it any more succinctly than that?

If you are writer and your aim is to heighten social awareness and you decide take TR as an avenue (since unarguably it is being read by a better number of the reading public), you must be prepared to write within the confines of the genre's "box" whilst putting your point across.

I know of others who have tried particularly during the onset of genre in the early nineties. Unfortunately, they did not succeed to "stand out like a banned book the masses can call their own" as the Bibliophile Stalker so colorfully puts it.

Again, here we are back with the why. To reiterate, readers of the genre expect to be entertained. They expect to escape from the all too harsh reality. They expect to be transported to a make believe world where everything ends happily ever after. A world where each hero gets the price of love everlasting at each end, and so on and so forth.

Such being the case, is it any wonder why readers bent on diversion would turn a blind eye on the underlying social theme (subtly or not so subtly) meshed in with the story?