[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

[iceyred]

A lot of literature published for adults is incredibly pretentious.

Will you judge me for reading YA? OH GOD, DON'T JUDGE ME. ANYTHING BUT JUDGEMENT. I CAN'T HANDLE UR JUDGEY-MCJUDGERSONNESS.

[sarillia]

YA can be pretty pretentious too. And a lot of "adult fiction" can fit every stereotype about YA. I don't understand the stereotypes about either group of books.

[iceyred]

I've read waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more pretentious adult literature than pretentious YA. It seems like it's a prerequisite for adult lit to be really overwritten. (Looking at you, 'Vampires in the Lemon Grove.')

Ah well, that's why we have Maggie Steifvater.

[sarillia]

I really don't understand this mindset. It comes up every time people start complaining about YA or fanfic, as a counterpoint, and it always makes me wonder what people are reading for adult literature because that hasn't been my experience.

[iceyred]

Mostly stuff for my library's reading program. T.C. Boyle is one author who can go soak his head.

I did read 'Cinnamon and Gunpowder' and 'Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.' which were both amazing.

[funyarinpainahat]

Is Mr. Penumbra's technically adult literature? I couldn't make up my mind while reading it. I did like it though.

[iceyred]

That's how it was shelved in the library. /shrug.

It was a great book. The author is just so in love with everything, it's infectious.

[(Anonymous)]

... and? I'm honestly not sure what your point is. Isn't a lot of fanfic rather pretentious as well? And isn't there plenty of literature published for adults that isn't? Presumably one can read the non-pretentious fanfiction and the non-pretentious published fiction if they preferred.

The secret also didn't say anything about YA, unless you think that all fanfic = YA, so I'm confused now.

[iceyred]

The tone of the secret and the picture leads me to believe that the OP thinks we should all be reading srs adult literature of the kind that is taught in expensive universities by people wearing tweed. I generally find such stuff to be very pretentious and overwritten. (Fanfic is much less so. Fanfic is fucking fanfic and anybody who acts pretentious about it should go soak their head).

The OP is pretty judgmental and I can't help but wonder if they'll judge me for reading a lot of YA.

[(Anonymous)]

*rereads secret* Maybe that's the photo choice affecting one's impression. It's a gorgeous library, though. Other than the pic, nothing really indicates what kind of books the OP is talking about. "Novels" covers a really broad range, and most of it is genre fiction, not literary novels.

[nyxelestia]

I got it because the only way one can just blithely assume all books are somehow better than all fanfic - and that reading only or predominantly fanfic equates to a deficit in education and life-experience - is if they only read high-class literary novels and little to nothing else.