[ SECRET POST #1642 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1642 ⌋


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Secrets Left to Post: 10 pages, 238 secrets from Secret Submission Post #235.
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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

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[aethre.livejournal.com]

For that matter, there's nothin wrong with reading YA no matter how old you are.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in my thirties and I sometimes read Young Adult fiction.

Fairly certain YA doesn't mean rubbish.

[stella-down.livejournal.com]

there's nothing wrong with being any age and reading YA fiction.

the problem is when you're an adult and you still haven't read anything more challenging than that outside of high school. I think a lot of people use YA as a crutch - not that these books can't be good reads, just that there are books you read for fun and then there are books that require some effort to read, books with a deeper meaning, books that make you reconsider your life, the world, etc.

I'll probably get dogpiled for this.

[(Anonymous)]

I'll read 'em 'til they put a cutoff age on the book covers. Then I'll continue reading them, in secret meeting halls where others of my kind gather to indulge in these sinful literary ways. We'll be persecuted for not having higher standards, but we'll endure. We'll walk amongst you, undetected, silently inflicting our reading habits on unsuspecting, innocent grown men and women.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

I think you can be any age and read young adult fiction. Why not? At least those people are reading. :]

[deadtree.livejournal.com]

when you think you're "too old to read YA", you've officially become a boring old fogey. However, you can always recover! I was "too old" when I was in jr high and high school, and read only adult-oriented lit. When I finally stopped being a pretentious asshat, I realized that I really enjoyed YA lit, and now my bookshelves are half YA, half adult. My imagination thanks me.

[xelestri.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with reading Young Adult at any age, if it's enjoyable?

[dark-puck.livejournal.com]

When I was in junior high, I read adult novels.

Now that I'm an adult, I read YA novels.


75% of the time, the YA novels are more innovative and less formulaic/derivative, and all around better. (HELLO MAJORITY OF STAR WARS EU NOVELS I SEE YOU THERE.)

Too old to read YA?

YOU CAN HAVE MY TAMORA PIERCE BOOKS WHEN YOU PRISE THEM FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

[matitablu.livejournal.com]

It's not really a matter of age tbh, these categories exist more for marketing reasons. A good story is a good story regardless of the target audience.

[oflittlebrain.livejournal.com]

you're never too old to read YA

i usually just don't bother anymore though because it's so hard to find anything on the shelves that's not a twilight knockoff :/

[ecoerrante.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with reading YA fiction at any age - and I know someone in their 50's who read it because they find it more inventive than they do the 'adult' fantasy stuff.

Though, this more of a side thing that doesn't matter but...I always thought late 20's wasn't considered young adult...?

[la-petite-singe.livejournal.com]

Why would there be anything wrong with that? I guess if that's ALL you read, that's not great, but it's still hardly the end of the world.

[forgottenjester.livejournal.com]

I like reading YA fiction too. I may not mention it much in RL because as an English major I fear my fellows looking down on me but I do enjoy it. I enjoy YA fiction precisely because it ISN'T what I'm reading in all my classes. I couldn't care less about some of the things I have to read. It can just get so boring and tedious.

But when I have a bit of free time? I bet you I'm cracking open a Young Wizards book or something like that. Regardless of age I think I always will enjoy them.

[cyren-2132.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with reading YA novels at any age. But as someone who is fast-approaching her last year in the 20s, I think by the time you hit the "late 20s" (27-29), you've done put your toes in the straight-up adult world.

[malik-chan.livejournal.com]

Dude, I'm 25 and still enjoy Francesca Lia Block, though the way she represents LA as some magical, great place pisses me off (especially when I can see the shroud of smog around downtown from the Getty, but look over and see the sky over the ocean clear as hell).

Anyone got an recs though?

[captain-loki.livejournal.com]

As an avid John Green fan...I say READ ON

[inversecalico.livejournal.com]

"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond."
— C.S. Lewis

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Dude, I am so glad to see I'm not the only one who prefers YA to adult fiction. :D

[cephiedvariable.livejournal.com]

Not that there's anything wrong with reading YA fiction, but I get kind of side-eyeing when I see giant threads of people agreeing wholesale that YA fiction is better, more innovative, better at gender politics and altogether implicitly the more genuine and worthwhile choice.

I get all side-eyeing like: "Guys, guys, have you never read a book?????"

[(Anonymous)]

I turned 18 pretty recently but even though I'm not in my 20's yet, one of my thoughts was: "oh no! Now I can't read YA anymore!"

I haven't read YA since I was 13. But it's still sad to feel like I can't read it, now, even if I'd like to.

[dark-kaomi.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be reading YA stories for the rest of my life. I find adult stories too complicated and full of sex while children's stories are just too simple. YA are complicated enough without forcing me to really think. I read to escape that kind of stuff.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

If one of my favorite writers is 70 and writing YA, and I'm nearly 50 and still reading it, what's the big deal? It's my favorite style of writing, really.

[netbug009.livejournal.com]

A GOOD STORY IS A GOOD STORY IS A GOOD STORY.

[resounding-echo.livejournal.com]

I'm also going to point out the politics of the publishing world, as well.

I think I read somewhere that Tamora Pierce originally wrote her Lioness Quartet as a single novel (or maybe two) for adult fiction but she couldn't get it published. She got advice to aim for YA because she would have a better chance at a market and would face less sexist shit.

Also I follow Laurie Halse Anderson on here and she said in one of her q&a posts how the YA genre made her a better writer inasmuch as the page limits. Writers for a adult fiction (particularly scifi) can drone on and on and lose their story, or at the very least the urgency (see JK Rowling once she became a power-house, and while Twilight never really had a plot, but the Eclipse meanders around forever). LHA says she very conscious that every character, location, action, bit of dialogue needs to service the story or characterization--no room for exposition on landscapes and such.