YA novels/adult novels
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/67909203.html
Ok, so this was on lj's homepage. I have to say something. If you disagree with me on this, that is fine, but I need to express my opinion on this because well...I can't hold it in after I just read this.
1.) Some YA books are really quite complex and could double as adult books.
I don't know who decides where the line is drawn between adult and young adult. I don't know where that line is in the book world and in the age range world. Frankly, I don't really care. I feel like some young adult books are written with young adults as their target audience but if you reread them as an adult or they are released as you're an adult so you read them, you may be able to catch some subtleties you missed/would have missed as a child. Harry Potter was used as an example, and that book is definitely not just for young adults. Everyone should read it. Hunger Games was also listed. Yes the target audience was young adult, but not all teens would see the message behind the story until they reached adulthood (unless they were forced to read and disect it for school).
2.) At least we're reading.
Ok, people who are snobby enough (I am sorry if that offends some of you, I just...this is a touch subject for me) to think that we should complain about what people should read need to rethink some things. We need to encourage literacy. We need to encourage any and all reading. My dad just got back into reading a few years ago, mostly because I kept telling him about my books and then I lent him a Dan Brown book. Sure he writes adult novels but I would have been just as excited that he started reading The Hunger Games. I mean, finally we can talk books. Finally vocabulary and literary techniques will be introduced to his life again, ya know? My mother, I FINALLY got her reading again too. Mind you, these are some of my favorite developments (My parents can read with me y'all! The can recommend me books!). She read a Jodi Picoult book, a book called "The Likeness," and she just now finished The Hunger Games trilogy. She's excited to have 5 books under her belt. She talks books with me and she likes characters and things. I'm excited she's reading again, no matter what it is she's reading.
Knowing a lot of adults and college students, it's all too common for people to stop reading all together once they get older. There's no time, or there are better things for them to be doing. So if we keep reading, even if it is YA books (not saying I don't read adult novels, but YA books are definitely in the mix too) then I don't think it should be frowned upon or judged. And if people jump back in and happen to choose a YA book then people need to just LET THEM! Ugh.
I agree that adults SHOULD read some adult novels as well, but I'm not going to look down on people for reading things. Especially when some of these books are becoming important to pop culture. Maybe they just want to understand the hype or the pop culture references. I say, let people read whatever they want. End.
Ok, so this was on lj's homepage. I have to say something. If you disagree with me on this, that is fine, but I need to express my opinion on this because well...I can't hold it in after I just read this.
1.) Some YA books are really quite complex and could double as adult books.
I don't know who decides where the line is drawn between adult and young adult. I don't know where that line is in the book world and in the age range world. Frankly, I don't really care. I feel like some young adult books are written with young adults as their target audience but if you reread them as an adult or they are released as you're an adult so you read them, you may be able to catch some subtleties you missed/would have missed as a child. Harry Potter was used as an example, and that book is definitely not just for young adults. Everyone should read it. Hunger Games was also listed. Yes the target audience was young adult, but not all teens would see the message behind the story until they reached adulthood (unless they were forced to read and disect it for school).
2.) At least we're reading.
Ok, people who are snobby enough (I am sorry if that offends some of you, I just...this is a touch subject for me) to think that we should complain about what people should read need to rethink some things. We need to encourage literacy. We need to encourage any and all reading. My dad just got back into reading a few years ago, mostly because I kept telling him about my books and then I lent him a Dan Brown book. Sure he writes adult novels but I would have been just as excited that he started reading The Hunger Games. I mean, finally we can talk books. Finally vocabulary and literary techniques will be introduced to his life again, ya know? My mother, I FINALLY got her reading again too. Mind you, these are some of my favorite developments (My parents can read with me y'all! The can recommend me books!). She read a Jodi Picoult book, a book called "The Likeness," and she just now finished The Hunger Games trilogy. She's excited to have 5 books under her belt. She talks books with me and she likes characters and things. I'm excited she's reading again, no matter what it is she's reading.
Knowing a lot of adults and college students, it's all too common for people to stop reading all together once they get older. There's no time, or there are better things for them to be doing. So if we keep reading, even if it is YA books (not saying I don't read adult novels, but YA books are definitely in the mix too) then I don't think it should be frowned upon or judged. And if people jump back in and happen to choose a YA book then people need to just LET THEM! Ugh.
I agree that adults SHOULD read some adult novels as well, but I'm not going to look down on people for reading things. Especially when some of these books are becoming important to pop culture. Maybe they just want to understand the hype or the pop culture references. I say, let people read whatever they want. End.