[ SECRET POST #2238 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2238 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

what would you call YA today? would you define YA as necessarily including contemporary pop culture? that is not a definition of YA I've heard before.

is a book set in a fantasy world with a teenage girl dealing with universal teenage issues but fighting dragons instead of going to high school, then, not YA? if it is YA, would it no longer be YA 100 years later? :/

i've read classics. i hate most of the ones i've read. but at least i can say i know i hate those books because i read them, instead of because i dislike all classics. saying "i don't like all classics even though i've never read any" is just as dumb as saying "i don't like all fanfic even though i've never read any"

[dreemyweird]

Eh, no. When I was talking about "culture", I essentially meant "cultural background". It's not so much about themes as about the way the book is dramatic and entertaining; it should be dramatic and entertaining for the modern teenagers, and this requires some specific features to be present. Like, you can't write about something without "translating" the context. You can't write about the times of Louis XIV, use jokes from this time, mention all those tiny details of the daily life and not explain it with the underlying assumption that your audience is unaware of the connotations. Naturally Twain does not "translate" things; he has no notion of the context into which they're to be translated some hundered years later.

/this is my theory about YA/

That being said, fanfic does not qualify. One may dislike all the fanfiction because of its very idea; that is, all the fanfiction DOES have one thing in common - it is all unoriginal.

I do think it laudable to read things in order to hate them. No sarcasm intended.