[ SECRET POST #3318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3318 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/kAcSios.png

[iceyred]

Eh, you're missing out on some good stuff, but whatever floats your boat.

[philstar22]

I'm just happy to see an Anne secret. I love those books. Also the Heinlein juveniles were a big part of my childhood as well.

[loracarol]

Drive-by Anne love. ♥

[sabotabby]

Anne of Green Gables for the win.

I think a lot of old school YA seems more sophisticated than a lot of YA now because the vast majority of it, which was likely shit, got forgotten. There are a smattering of good YA books I've come across in the past 15 years, and that's what our kids' generation will look back on with nostalgia.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just too old for most YA literature. It doesn't really appeal to me anymore.

Historical fiction in general is very good.

[cloudtrader]

I'm with you, but I've got to disagree about the adult Heinlein stuff. Some of it is seriously weird, true, but a lot of it is pretty fantastic. My favorites are "Friday" and "Time Enough For Love."

[solticisekf]

What about Harry Potter or Pulman's trilogy? Maybe this is so because we read only the best from the past, books that survived all these years and are still popular today. Say, if you travelled to the past and went to a bookstore you'd see a lot of subpar YA books.

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't really the point of the secret, I know, but this reminds me of how I'm constantly sneered at for liking YA and how naysayers view it as such a recent genre, when it's... not. It's the same stuff you read, my friend, just published during different time periods.

Anyway. Like what you like, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

You're sort of right, but not entirely. YA as a genre has been around for quite some time. But if you look at the YA from say, the 70s and 80s and contrast it with more recent YA books, there's a huge difference in style and content. That's true of every genre, I think. So people who love fantasy from the 70s aren't necessarily going to love modern fantasy, because the fantasy genre has changed, trends have come and gone, etc.

[(Anonymous)]

... But song of the lioness quartet is so bad tho...like there's so much better than that. Fucking Artemis Fowl, throne of glass, Dragonback...

[(Anonymous)]

Song of the Lioness was written years before any of those books. Throne of Glass wouldn't *exist* without Alanna. Do you know how many fantasy series there were about young girls with swords having traditional fantasy adventures? Basically none. Tamora Pierce wrote those books precisely because when she was growing up there were no fantasy stories with female heroes.

Did you take that quiz on buzzfeed?

[(Anonymous)]

I was surprised what was included and excluded. http://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseypippin/how-many-ya-books-have-you-read#.tkpKzjZmA

And, yeah, I tend to have read the older ones on the list, but that doesn't mean the newer ones don't have some merit. Maybe modern YA just doesn't speak to you the same way, writing in genres does tend to evolve over time.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you, OP. I can't stand YA novels, but Little Women is one of my favorites of all time.

[darnaguen]

Tamora Pierce! *hearteyes*

And yeah, I agree. Most YA stuff is way too formulaic and unimaginative these days, I haven't seen anything truly original and smart for years - and I work with books for a living.