Comments | 10_ers: YA fiction as fast food

sylverkit in 10_ers

YA fiction as fast food

Apr 18, 2009 12:19

Grr. Check out this opinion of a book critic on YA novels. And just when I thought nearly everyone in the literary world had caught on to the fact that YA fiction is "real writing."

"If I have one quibble, it is that I think [ YA book title ] should be sitting proudly on the shelf next to these books, rather than being hidden away in the "young ( Read more... )

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veschwab April 18 2009, 17:48:18 UTC

Grr this kind of thing makes me so, so angry.

jjhoutman April 18 2009, 18:54:09 UTC

I think you touched on this in your LJ rant, but this person has it backwards. More adults should be reading YA (and MG, for that matter). Maybe we need to call it something else, so that people will not be prejudiced against the "kid stuff." My quibble with a separate section for YA is not so much that it keeps "young readers" from reading "adult fiction" but that it keeps "adult readers" from reading "young fiction."

lindsey_leavitt April 18 2009, 23:27:03 UTC

The last line is a compliment. To Kill a Mockingbird COULD be in YA, because there are awesome literary novels in YA!
Also, I like chicken nuggets.

erinbow April 22 2009, 02:08:52 UTC

Yeah, that's my reaction too. Yes, if published today, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and CATCHER IN THE RYE and all your other beloved teen books would be shelved over in YA, reviewer dude. And you would miss them. It's your loss.

kathleenfoucart April 19 2009, 00:13:22 UTC

Ugh. I share your anger. And this after reading some random blogger the other day who said something to the effect of- he thought HS kids were "just supposed to read books"-- as opposed to reading YA. Because obviously, YA means "not a book." Made me so mad...

And I totally get that every genre gets looked down on by somebody, but really? Do people need to go bashing on stuff and calling it "news?" (I realize it's a reviewer & therefore technically opinion, but still, people look to these things!)

I feel like the reviewer was attempting to be nice to teens, but ummm... failed.

suzanneyoung April 19 2009, 01:19:16 UTC

What an idiot. Just because he can't relate to teens, he shouldn't judge those that can. He's an ass. (I'm getting myself worked up over this!)