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It's not low quality, but it is something a lot of people into literary novels would consider low quality. It's certainly an easy read and belongs to a genre that is often looked down on with almost as much disdain as romance novels (while selling a small fraction of romance novels...)

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I think we're talking about very different things here then. I don't think I've ever interacted with someone who considers anything less than Tolstoy to be low quality.

Consider yourself lucky. Any "genre fiction" gets looked down on by a lot of people irrespective of quality.

If you want to find more of this kind of judgment, you can look online for "pseud" or "midwit" as a signpost; alternatively, "literature" ...

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