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⌈ Secret Post #5739 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I would assume it doesn’t necessarily have to do with their taste in protagonists and is more likely to do with their taste in writing style.

[(Anonymous)]

What about the writing style of a YA novel is significantly different from other genres, in your opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

da.

it's usually terrible for one.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

It's notably difficult to identify differences between different artistic styles. It usually requires significant work and technical terminology. That's true across many different forms of media. If you ask a random layperson to lay out in detail the stylistic differences in approach between different genres or subgenres, they're often going to struggle to do so, even in cases where the differences are very real.

Speaking personally, it does seem intuitively to me that YA fiction does have certain stylistic markers, but I definitely wouldn't be able to say what they are in any definitive way. And it strikes me as kind of an unfair question.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a bit odd, but for me it's that I can easily binge read a 400 pages YA book in a few hours, while I often take longer for an adult book (note: I do read mainly fantasy/sci-fi).
I don't really want to say that YA books are easier/simpler, cause that would be unfair, but I can't explain it in any other way.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not unfair if it's true. YA books are written for teens first and foremost, so of course the writing is going to be simpler than many books written for an older audience. That's not a bad thing, it's just how target audiences work.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. My own uncharitable assumption is that they don't have the reading skills to cope with complex language and/or narratives.

[(Anonymous)]

Non-YA doesn't guarantee complexity. My opinion is that there isn't a marked difference between YA and the fluffy beach-read or consumable thriller types of books aimed at adult readers. I think a lot of the appeal is subject matter. It's the same reason people read a lot of fanfic, these stories are relationships-focused.

[(Anonymous)]

My opinion is that there isn't a marked difference between YA and the fluffy beach-read or consumable thriller types of books aimed at adult readers.

I agree. I've read a lot of adult fantasy books (at the beach, ironically enough) and for the most part I would consider them indistinguishable from the average YA novel in terms of writing style and complexity. They might be longer in terms of page numbers, but I definitely wouldn't call them any more sophisticated where the actual writing was concerned.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, like are we out here arguing that if someone graduates from YA books to, say, the ACOTAR series, they're opening themselves up to untold levels of complexity? Not all adult fiction is literary fiction.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. There is plenty of adult fiction that is mindless fluff.

[(Anonymous)]

That is unpleasantly judgey of you.

[(Anonymous)]

But accurate.

[kallanda_lee]

It is for me. I don't ONLY read YA, but often I just find YA less pretentious and less concerned with being ~literature~ and filling a 100 extra pages that to me, often, feels like a slog. I'm not immune to liking more poetic or embellished prose, but I often just favor straightforward stories with a steady "flow".

[(Anonymous)]

You do know that literature written for adults isn't just serious literature concerned about being ~literature~, right?

[kallanda_lee]

I know...and I also read pulp and genre stories. But it's certainly one of the appeals of YA for me.