You know, I didn't like young adult books back when I was actually the target audience. I read a few crappy fantasy books, then a bud gave me a copy of Dune.
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You know, I didn't like young adult books back when I was actually the target audience. I read a few crappy fantasy books, then a bud gave me a copy of Dune.
Same here, I read a few like The Chocolate War, but they never fully appealed to me.After I read The Silmarillion in 6th grade, I started reading harder books.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
We constantly complain about how stupid kids today are, and then we criticize when they actually like books? These movies are doing a lot to get teens reading beyond simple internet content, and they're actually creating a love of literature and different genres. Series like Eragon, Twilight, and Harry Potter have breathed new life into YA literature, and it's great.
Personally, l applaud these movies being made. I personally hate Twilight with a passion, but those movies have done more to get teenage girls to read than anything released in the past decade. It's what Harry Potter was for boys.
I do agree that tastes have changed. In school, I read books like The Outsiders, Ten Little Indians, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Summer of My German Soldier. I loved all of those, but I could have used some fantasy and sci-fi too!
I hate books. I simply cannot stand them. Reading books does not increase your intelligence, a willingness to learn does. Most people I know who are avid readers have atrocious spelling and grammar skills. Reading books does not help improve a person in any way if the person is already an idiot. So reading books is not something that is having an effect on these young people one way or another. I can read non-fiction but I do not like books as a medium. I'd rather read shit on the internet. I absolutely abhor fiction, though, unless it is a movie or TV show.
"A Wrinkle in Time" changed my life.
Melf makes a good point. I do hope that some of these kids use these as sort of a gateway drug to real books.
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Originally Posted by sheath
Great joke. :D
Anywho, most of Heinlein's early novels are "young adult". Le Guin was another really big "young adult" author. I loved her stuff. I read nearly anything I could get my hands on, young adult or not. I was one of those folks who seemed to ALWAYS be in the library... mainly because I was. I had a permanent pass to the library, and it was pretty rare that I didn't have more than six books checked out at once. In one high school they limited me to no more than six the one time I showed up with 21 books (none overdue). :cool: