[ SECRET POST #2652 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2652 ⌋

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 041 secrets from Secret Submission Post #379.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Did you read all of His Dark Materials? Right near the end of the first book, the concept of a daemon as being like you described is basically outright disassembled.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I was wondering. HDM does not seem like the best example of a book that could be called "childish fantasy."

[(Anonymous)]

HDM is literally a YA book (and IMO on the young end of YA) that is also fantasy, it's hardly insane to describe it in those terms

[(Anonymous)]

da

It's also shelved additionally in the adult scifi/fantasy section. (For comparison, Harry Potter isn't.)

[(Anonymous)]

Uh... Harry Potter is in the adult section too. Or at least, it is in the UK. Bloomsbury did both adult and child covers for the books.

[(Anonymous)]

It's also chock-full of (non-mainstream) religious allegory and more 'adult' themes than many other YA books. OP described it as having "cute animals" and thought "did a 12-year-old write this" which makes it sound like it's on par with fluffy Disney cartoons or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying they aren't YA books, I'm using the definition of childish as "silly and immature," which seems to me to be OP's impression of the books.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, at least when I worked at Barnes and Noble, the HDM series was also shelved among the adult sci-fi and fantasy. It had a different cover than the one shelved in YA and everything. With you can technically classify it as a YA book, it really was one of those books which you could also classify as straight up adult literature just based on the writing and the themes.

OP of the subthread

[(Anonymous)]

This is my first time responding to anyone who responded to me, and I'm embarrassed by whoever is saying HDM isn't YA because of its themes. That was not the point I meant to make when I said daemons were more complex than the secret-poster described.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I think there were a few of us - I posted once (the comment directly above yours, about it being shelved in the YA and adult sections), but the others came from a third (or fourth) person as well. I'm sorry if you felt embarrassed by the responses to your comment. The anon format is great, but it does lead to some confusion over identity. If you want to make sure that you can disassociate yourself from responses that you don't agree with, I sincerely suggest that you make a sock account and post from that instead.