Don't judge a book by its genre

As I finished rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, I realized that I have a confession to make: I used to be a book snob. In fact, I have been a book snob at several different points in my life, encompassing several different genres.

 

I have been a voracious reader for as long as I can remember, so whenever I adopted a genre as my own I set out to conquer it. My first attack of snobbery occurred when I was in my early teens and I would only read comic books. First, there was...