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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-02-09 03:54 pm

[ SECRET POST #2595 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2595 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-02-10 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
“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) 2014-02-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
There really needs to be YA vs adult literature debate bingo.
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(Anonymous) 2014-02-10 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
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.

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(Anonymous) 2014-02-10 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
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) 2014-02-10 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
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) 2014-02-10 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
This! Thank you!