[ SECRET POST #2595 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2595 ⌋

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Comments

[ketita]

Fwiw I also bemoan the lack of good adult reading. To me, YA is like candy. It's yummy and fun, but if you eat candy all day you lose appreciation for 'real' food, and eating it becomes a drag. That said, I personally get a lot of satisfaction from digging through this classics, even though I admit that I too have a tendency to want to read easy, relaxing fluff.

[ketita]

Sadly, yes. That is exactly what they say... I mean, for me it's a bit weird because if I go too long without what's considered literature I start feeling like I'm not even reading at all, and rush for something heavy and satisfying.

[starphotographs]

But what about all the candy that boasts 100% of your daily vitamin C!? :P

/don't mind me, just bein' a doof for the sake of bein' a doof

[(Anonymous)]

I've been reading a few different types of books for a fandom project and YA is like, well, it's often pretty superficial to me. What you see is what get. Fun and fast moving, but the atmosphere does not tend to infect your mind and inspire strange and wonderful thoughts. Well, ymmv anyway. But sometimes I don't wanna put in the brain effort and get subtly challenged and changed, I just wanna read a fun book. Ideally both types would be popular but I get why they aren't. I just wish sometimes all people would read and watch something that goes beyond everyday tangible thoughts and wish-fulfilment. Maybe that's elitist of me.

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I like YA. When I read, I read because I want a good story that keeps me turning the pages until the very end. I put in enough brain effort at work already, and most of my hobbies are the creative sort on top of that. Reading is something I do for fun and relaxation and I'm really not interested in slogging through something dense.

[(Anonymous)]

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

--C.S. Lewis

[(Anonymous)]

There really needs to be YA vs adult literature debate bingo.

[(Anonymous)]

I have read those as well as some of his other works (including, yes, Narnia).

I actually don't read YA (the current paranormal romance trend doesn't interest me). But I think adults and children should be able to read whatever interest them and me reading "adult" books, instead of YA, doesn't make more intellectual.

[(Anonymous)]

I have to disagree with your second point, as well. Especially since I've read some really shallow "grown-up" books that didn't require any intelligence to read (my IQ might have dropped a few points just by reading them). I also don't think that the enjoyment of reading is necessary for an intellectual person.

At any rate, I'm bowing out of this conversation. Have a nice evening!

[(Anonymous)]

But you do and feel sad about the people who don't share your reading interests and you certainly judge them (because people who read only a certain genres are certainly no real adults and are probably not intellectual enough).

You probably also think that you should quit fandom when you reach 25 (but then you also even didn't finish High School so there is that).

[(Anonymous)]

This! Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Of course you are the only special person here and in the rest of the world who prefers grown-up books! You nailed it perfectly again!
I don't really know what complexes you have but please grow up.