books?

What is so great about books like "chronicles of a death foretold"? They are plain fiction. travel reading stuff. They dont make you feel like waiting and thinking for a while. Just go on reading. There's a plot and, OK the description is very lucid and characters are very well drawn etc etc. Give them a nobel award for that but dont call it a great book. I know that doesnt make sense. But it will if you read books which make you want to wait while you are reading. Wait and reflect. Read back. Smile. Yes that is a good book.
To me chronicles of a death foretold and agatha christies, even sidney sheldon are in the same league. They do not provide food for thought. They just help pass some good time. And a good one among those is the one that you cannot put down.
And to appreciate books like chronicles of a death foretold they should be appreciated as books which were written with a good writing style. they were good books in their class. the author did a great job. Yes, teach them in a course of literature, so that ppl learn how to write well. And teach them how to write well and not to come up with a crap like this blog :)).
But dont call them good reading stuff. At least I wont. Why should I force my thinking upon everybody. After all there is this ubiquitous quantifier "I think that...". Which acts as a shield for me from people like smathur.
OK i stopped this time from digressing down to that incident of lions and crocodiles. (although it was really hard not to recount that).