[ SECRET POST #2413 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2413 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/56296346127/i-dont-like-all-of-my-friends-are-adults-my

mostly I just find it weird and sad because he either doesn't consider himself an adult and believes himself to be some kind of honorary teenager and makes immature generalizations about them to seem cool or he does consider himself an adult and he loathes himself for being one

[deadtree]

yeah that one reads really, really weirdly. It might not be what he meant, but what he ended up saying is that all adults are joyless beings whose lives are drudgery and boring clothes ~_~

[(Anonymous)]

...and I have absolutely zero inclination to pay any more attention to this person than I did before. Which consisted solely of seeing him mentioned/quoted incessantly on the Internet and not really having a clue who he was, besides the newest flash-in-the-pan YA author..

WHY is everything YA these days? What happened to writing for grownups, by grownups? I mean actual writing, that sucked you in and kept you engaged and NOT with fifty-shades-of-Ikea-sex thank you, no.

*grumble* I haven't read any decent current fiction in forever. Even the nonfiction I read isn't the greatest, these days.

/I read books hear me whine (sorry)

[(Anonymous)]

it's out there, you just have to dig to find it 'cause it's not what's "in" right now

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Any recs for me? I have neither time nor money to "dig" unfortunately.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't read much (uh-oh) but I am really diggging the Iron Druid Chronicles right now, if you enjoy urban fantasy, Celtic, Norse and Olympian gods. I don't think it's YA, or at least not the egregious sort.

[(Anonymous)]

The Iron Druid Chronicles are amazing. The Iron Elves trilogy by Chris Evans is - engaging, but the writing is a little rocky in places. Even so, I bought the 1st one out of curiosity and went back for the next two when I was two chapters in, because that's all I got read on my lunch break.

[(Anonymous)]

Yay someone else who likes the IDC!

[grackle]

The Laundry series by Charles Stross is one of my favorite things ever.

[thene]

I am loving Alastair Reynolds rn and he's written, like, one teen character ever. He is all about the grownups and I always feel like he's respecting his readers' intelligence as he writes.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt thanking you !!

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Revelation Space looks like it checks ALL the ticky-boxes, thene. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[thene]

IT DOES. I ASSURE YOU IT DOES. Starts a teeny bit slow tho. Also there is inexplicably no femslash fandom.

[grackle]

Seconding this.

[chardmonster]

Because most adults stop reading fiction after high school, when they are forced to do so. So their reading level never improves and their tastes never change. The couple times they read a book, they're going to be comfortable with YA stuff.

That isn't an insult to YA novels--I will never stop loving Sabriel--just why I think so many adults read nothing but them.

Also: Dan Brown isn't classified as "young adult fiction" but god damn is it at a lower reading level than a lot of the YA books I used to read.

[(Anonymous)]

The Da Vinci Code was the only book I've ever been able to finish in one sitting.

A book that doesn't have one moment that makes me stop and re-read, or marvel at how a sentence was constructed, or put it down because I'm thinking about what I just read and kinda get lost in thought for a few minutes there? nope

[(Anonymous)]

Eh I'm not even mad that most current fiction doesn't interest me. There's so much great stuff still to read in the back-catalogue of literature.

[rapunzelita]

Then again I get the impression that he's not saying that boring is bad. It's boring as in "hey man isn't it great that I don't have all that emotional turmoil and weird hormonal spikes and I don't feel like I'm the worst mess that ever lived?". That kind of boring. I would have used some other, less pejorative adjective, like "calm" or "quiet", myself, but yeah. I don't get the impression that he things adults are joyless.

[blueonblue]

It seems weird to me that he is equating "adulthood" with "parenthood", specifically the middle-class suburban kind.

[(Anonymous)]

That makes him sound like he lives in a bubble. Growing up, I hardly knew any adults like that and still don't, but maybe that's because I don't look at adults like that.