The phrase "a certain type of reader" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific category or group of readers who share common characteristics or preferences.
Example: "This book is designed for a certain type of reader who enjoys complex narratives and deep character development."
Alternatives: "a specific kind of reader" or "a particular category of reader".
There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
It's a sentiment that a certain type of reader might be inclined to endorse by underlining, asterisking, or even scrawling "yes!" in the adjacent margin.
If you're a certain type of reader, this description may make you recoil so "meta," so "ironic," so many "air quotes".
If you're a certain type of reader, this description may make you recoil — so "meta," so "ironic," so many "air quotes".
"Tangerine" is no "Rebecca," but, for a certain type of reader, it recollects the host of novels that "Rebecca" inspired, the sort of book — written, perhaps, by Phyllis A.
One wonders if the novel's uncomfortably literal rendition of "tragedy porn" — through which someone derives selfish pleasure while witnessing or trying to ignore a narrative of suffering — is a calculated indictment of a certain type of reader.
Comparably shrewd is the humour aimed at a certain type of American Jewish reader, for whom Bleeding Edge is meant to be rich pickings throughout.
The possibility of persecution gives rise to a certain type of writing that allows one set of the readers, the majority, to receive one message while allowing a second set of readers, the philosophical elite, to take away another message.
I have learned that because I use an e-reader, I prefer a certain type of book: not too complicated or contemplative, and driven by plot.
This vision of the unconscious also describes a certain type of novelist one who deploys elision and enigma in his storytelling to provoke and challenge readers.
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