/lit/ - Literature

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>If you define "original" as being the first of its kind then nothing is truly original.
And this is why there is no reason to hate genre fiction. If Tolkien and the likes made the tropes and themes of the more mainstream fantasy in genre fiction and so on, it was more because he's story was good and influenced a lot of people, and the fact that bad books are using today the same tropes as LOTR's, this just shows that is a sucess and the book has a place in society, no matter if was 100% original, or with settings/themes from other works. The Aeniad is literaly a fanfic of Odyssey and Illiad, but still one of the major works of literature we have today.
Again, returning to topic, I don't see why you think that Tolkien, Lovecraft and others are bad simply on the fact that the gave birth by accident to literature tropes and genres or because they share a common topic with modern day awfull genre-literature books, with me proving that they didn't were as original as people like to think.
I don't see you putting the bad's on H.G. Wells who literaly gave birth to one of the most overused tropes in Sci-Fi: the "ow we defeated the aliens because they didn't have biological defenses against our own microscopic creatures". And Wells was a notorious socialist, and one who you can actualy call left-wingy

What are some ideas/books that take 140 IQ to understand?