> I look at a lot of books. I don't think you've summarized them well here. I suggest you look at more yourself. You're missing a lot of beautiful art. This

> I look at a lot of books. I don't think you've summarized them well here. I suggest you look at more yourself. You're missing a lot of beautiful art. This comment is pretty obnoxious. (I've stepped into a library, thanks.) For all the books that you're thinking of that don't fit the mold, when you put that set up against the set of those that do, it's not even close. I'm not talking about hypotheticals (i.e. the potential for stuff that could be made that deviates from the norm) or creative works that really exist but only at the margins (i.e. in small numbers by comparison). I'm talking about what people actually produce and consume in large numbers and the average experience for each context/form. There is undeniably a lot more homogeneity in books than blogs to a large degree. It's something like over a hundred or a thousand to 1.