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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 30, 2024 19:27:36 GMT
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Post by Prince Myshkin on Apr 30, 2024 19:48:46 GMT
WTF is YA? Yeah, I read the link and figured it out after reading the article. But you and the author of the article really expect everyone to know off the top of their head what you mean by "YA"?
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 30, 2024 20:22:55 GMT
WTF is YA? Yeah, I read the link and figured it out after reading the article. But you and the author of the article really expect everyone to know off the top of their head what you mean by "YA"? Yup. Everyone knows that I thought. |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on May 1, 2024 0:14:54 GMT
WTF is YA? Yeah, I read the link and figured it out after reading the article. But you and the author of the article really expect everyone to know off the top of their head what you mean by "YA"? Yup. Everyone knows that I thought. I'm just a bit confused why 20-somethings would read different books than the rest of us. I mean, are we talking about dating books and romance novels? Lol I've never read those even in my teens.
In college we start reading the masters of literature. And even if you go to popular novelists like Anne Rice and the lurid vampire love stories, everybody reads those, not just YA.
So what is YA and its purpose?
I mean c'mon grow the fuck up. If you're 20 why would you be reading any different types of literature than when you're 50?
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 1, 2024 7:58:40 GMT
Yup. Everyone knows that I thought. I'm just a bit confused why 20-somethings would read different books than the rest of us. I mean, are we talking about dating books and romance novels? Lol I've never read those even in my teens.
In college we start reading the masters of literature. And even if you go to popular novelists like Anne Rice and the lurid vampire love stories, everybody reads those, not just YA.
So what is YA and its purpose?
I mean c'mon grow the fuck up. If you're 20 why would you be reading any different types of literature than when you're 50?
Dunno. Comfort reading? |
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Post by the knife on May 1, 2024 10:37:12 GMT
Yup. Everyone knows that I thought. I'm just a bit confused why 20-somethings would read different books than the rest of us. I mean, are we talking about dating books and romance novels? Lol I've never read those even in my teens.
In college we start reading the masters of literature. And even if you go to popular novelists like Anne Rice and the lurid vampire love stories, everybody reads those, not just YA.
So what is YA and its purpose?
I mean c'mon grow the fuck up. If you're 20 why would you be reading any different types of literature than when you're 50?
YA literature has always been a thing tho and many YA novels of the past are considered all time classics now, such as Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Secret Garden, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Robinson Crusoe, The Great Gatsby, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Sense and Sensibility, The Three Musketeers and yes, War and Peace was YA back in the day, too. |
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Post by Prince Myshkin on May 2, 2024 3:42:10 GMT
I'm just a bit confused why 20-somethings would read different books than the rest of us. I mean, are we talking about dating books and romance novels? Lol I've never read those even in my teens.
In college we start reading the masters of literature. And even if you go to popular novelists like Anne Rice and the lurid vampire love stories, everybody reads those, not just YA.
So what is YA and its purpose?
I mean c'mon grow the fuck up. If you're 20 why would you be reading any different types of literature than when you're 50?
YA literature has always been a thing tho and many YA novels of the past are considered all time classics now, such as Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Secret Garden, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Robinson Crusoe, The Great Gatsby, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Sense and Sensibility, The Three Musketeers and yes, War and Peace was YA back in the day, too. Okay, thanks Sophocles. So they're really not kid books, the characters are adolescents.
I'd say most the readers of the novels you listed are well over 28 these days. So I'm not sure why a reader of "Wuthering Heights" would be "delaying adult life". "Wuthering Heights" is a great book. I read it in high school but I should read it again. |
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Post by Stammerhead on May 2, 2024 15:20:53 GMT
I'm just a bit confused why 20-somethings would read different books than the rest of us. I mean, are we talking about dating books and romance novels? Lol I've never read those even in my teens.
In college we start reading the masters of literature. And even if you go to popular novelists like Anne Rice and the lurid vampire love stories, everybody reads those, not just YA.
So what is YA and its purpose?
I mean c'mon grow the fuck up. If you're 20 why would you be reading any different types of literature than when you're 50?
YA literature has always been a thing tho and many YA novels of the past are considered all time classics now, such as Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Secret Garden, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Robinson Crusoe, The Great Gatsby, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Sense and Sensibility, The Three Musketeers and yes, War and Peace was YA back in the day, too. I thought YA books were books aimed at teens which could also be read by adults but you’re mostly listing books that became popular with younger readers even though they were aimed at a more general readership. Anyway, Wikipedia to the rescue. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_adult_literature |
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Post by the knife on May 2, 2024 16:08:35 GMT
YA literature has always been a thing tho and many YA novels of the past are considered all time classics now, such as Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Secret Garden, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Robinson Crusoe, The Great Gatsby, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Sense and Sensibility, The Three Musketeers and yes, War and Peace was YA back in the day, too. I thought YA books were books aimed at teens which could also be read by adults but you’re mostly listing books that became popular with younger readers even though they were aimed at a more general readership. Anyway, Wikipedia to the rescue. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_adult_literaturei see what you're saying. lol yeah, "YA" wasn't a thing/term/genre/w.e people used until like 10-15 years ago. i just saw an opportunity of listing a couple of my own fav classics and took it! :D |
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Post by the knife on May 2, 2024 16:10:13 GMT
YA literature has always been a thing tho and many YA novels of the past are considered all time classics now, such as Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, The Secret Garden, Of Mice and Men, Wuthering Heights, Robinson Crusoe, The Great Gatsby, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Sense and Sensibility, The Three Musketeers and yes, War and Peace was YA back in the day, too. Okay, thanks Sophocles. So they're really not kid books, the characters are adolescents.
I'd say most the readers of the novels you listed are well over 28 these days. So I'm not sure why a reader of "Wuthering Heights" would be "delaying adult life". "Wuthering Heights" is a great book. I read it in high school but I should read it again. i love Wuthering Heights too. it's one of my fav novels i've ever read and i think i also need to reread it. i havent since my first time during HS. |
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Post by thekindercarebear on May 11, 2024 17:17:53 GMT
I recently completed the Murderbot series.
Was totally modern YA. A lot of action, really light on character development.
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Post by mikef6 on May 12, 2024 15:19:03 GMT
When I was a librarian I read several YA series simply because they told good stories:
Warriors by Evan Hunter
The Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Tripods by John Christopher
Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black
The City Of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
others
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