[ SECRET POST #574 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #574 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Not to any one in particular, but...

[xanykaos.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have to be a case of that, though. That's what I'm saying. Why are their peers reading that? If the good teenage-girl books got pushed instead of the lame ones, then their peers would be reading those, and they'd be reading those, etc.

Fine, you hate fantasy (which doesn't explain why you'd be reading Twilight; vampires and sparkles and all). So there's BabySitters Club, Angus Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, The Princess Diaries, that Pretties/Uglies series, Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Chix with Stix, etc.
And that's just the stuff geared particularly at the girls. There's the entire section of Young Adult stuff in Barnes and Noble. For pity's sake, there's even manga, if we must go that far.


It is not a fricken case of either-or. It's a case of some crap bit of vampired-up, teenaged-down harlequinn romance without the pedegree suddenly being the next big thing pushed at girls by the media, which doesn't encourage them to read--it encourages them to stay stupid.

Re: Not to any one in particular, but...

[hopelikefever.livejournal.com]

You're not getting in the teenager's mindset. They can break into all the other books you mentioned above once they actually start reading. The problem is that many kids don't read and have no interest in reading to begin with. They need a spark to get them into it, and Twilight is that spark.

which doesn't explain why you'd be reading Twilight; vampires and sparkles and all

I... haven't read Twilight, and I have no intention to, for the reasons stated above. I haven't read Harry Potter either, if it makes you feel better. Come to think of it, I haven't read any of those you mentioned--I grew up on James Harriot, Steven King, Louis Lamour (or whatever his name was), and now I'm quite happy with reading manga.