I feel that adults feel more need to be objective when justifying their feelings regarding a book, to themselves and others. This instills a critical attitude towards books, which prevents an adult from really passionately liking a book in a multitude of ways: 'it's too emo and not realistic enough', 'it's not politically correct, I shouldn't like it', 'it's too geeky for me to exhibit passionate feelings about it'. For a kid/young adult, a book can be good for more personal/frank/random reasons 'oooh, I really fell in love with Julian's sapphire eyes and pale in L.J. Smith's The Forbidden Game books', or 'they turn into ferocious animals in The Animorphs!! and icky bugs too!", or "Draco Malfoy is such a snarky brat, much love!" As an adult, I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I used to like vampire books... it's cool for a kid to like adult books, but it's kinda uncool for an adult to admit they like young adult books like Point Horror and vampire books, you know? Immaturity is so under-rated :p
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