If it isn't a novel about a middle-aged professor gazing into his own navel and learning how depressing life is, it HAS to be a downbeat book teaching you that life is solitary, nasty, brutish and poor...or it ain't LITERATURE!
That happy ending stuff may be okay in, you know, GENRE fiction, where they don't have Our Standards (tm), but it just won't do for shaping impressionable young minds.
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If it isn't a novel about a middle-aged professor gazing into his own navel and learning how depressing life is, it HAS to be a downbeat book teaching you that life is solitary, nasty, brutish and poor...or it ain't LITERATURE!
That happy ending stuff may be okay in, you know, GENRE fiction, where they don't have Our Standards (tm), but it just won't do for shaping impressionable young minds.