I just submitted White Shark by Peter Benchley to the checkout list if
any of you want to take it. But I noticed something. This is the first
time I have submitted anything since the new categories went into effect
and I have neglected to check them out prior to this. I notice that some
categories are now already checked and I suppose that is how the
publisher categorized the book and was acquired from the ISBN. I found
that I could uncheck these categories if I wanted to, but I left them.
One of the prechecked categories for this one was mystery and thrillers.
I don't think I would have categorized it that way myself, but some
thought allowed me to because it did technically qualify. A category
that I added was horror. I think it qualifies as horror much more than
it qualifies as a mystery. Now, quite some time back we were told that
when the new categories were instituted science fiction and fantasy
would be split. Well, this book is certainly science fiction even if the
publisher did not categorize it that way, but it most certainly and
decidedly is not fantasy. When I got to the science fiction check box I
saw that the two most unrelated of all genres were still combined. I
really hated to categorize this book under fantasy because it is not
fantasy by any means at all, but if I wanted to categorize it as science
fiction I had to. I really hate this lumping together of such two
distinct genres.
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