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so, i was reading an article recently, which was written by a young-adult-novel writer regarding his newest book. in the article, he made the comment that it was more rewarding writing children's and young-adult books, because the readers either passionately loved the books or passionately hated them. he compared that to adults, who (he said) would read books and sort of like them or not like them, but in either case did not have nearly as passionate a response as children.
well, as you can imagine, this comment has lodged itself somewhere in the vicinity of my craw, and now i'm trying to figure out if rings true with my own personal experience. lord knows, I certainly have passionate reactions to books. unless, of course, the book itself is bland. which brings up an interesting point. what if it's not that adults have lukewarm feelings about books, but that the kinds of books written for adults are boring? obviously, this is not true for all adult books. but i wonder if the reason children have passionate responses to their literature is that their literature tends to be more imaginative, to have fewer boundaries, and to have characters that are easier to identify with.
so, i was just interested what you all thought, since it seems to be, if not exactly bothersome, than at least an item of some curiosity to me.
*puts on thinking cap*
well, as you can imagine, this comment has lodged itself somewhere in the vicinity of my craw, and now i'm trying to figure out if rings true with my own personal experience. lord knows, I certainly have passionate reactions to books. unless, of course, the book itself is bland. which brings up an interesting point. what if it's not that adults have lukewarm feelings about books, but that the kinds of books written for adults are boring? obviously, this is not true for all adult books. but i wonder if the reason children have passionate responses to their literature is that their literature tends to be more imaginative, to have fewer boundaries, and to have characters that are easier to identify with.
so, i was just interested what you all thought, since it seems to be, if not exactly bothersome, than at least an item of some curiosity to me.
*puts on thinking cap*