disclaimer: i love books. i love people too, but the tag may say otherwise.
because maybe i'm like hoity-toity or something but it bothers me a lot when people think goosebumps or effing twilight or whatever you can find in the YA section in the library is great literature. i don't mean to totally diss the authors/editors/fans of these sorts of books, but really i think the "young adult" genre is kind of...not unnecessary but overrated. some of the books are pretty good, i like artemis fowl, i liked flipped, e.l. konigsburg is pretty awesome...but then all those series like traveling pants, gossip girl, etc etc. don't make much sense or hold much appeal for me. they're so shallow in terms of themes and i don't want to say morals but kind of yes. i haven't read gossip girl, though their covers are pretty cute XP, but i did read traveling pants when i was way too young for the material, so maybe that explains my YA-hate. nonetheless it's really weird seeing things like "omg lol wtf" in print like it's serious reading. take for example that series "ttyl" where it's all in chat. or that book i had before "click here" that was in chatspeak. you can't be serious when u rite liek dis. there's just no way.
also, they're so generic in terms of plot. sure many adult books are like that (i'm looking at you chick-lit) but it's just so watered down in YA. i mean what sells? sex drugs and violence. all of which are totally diluted and made to look ~edgy~ anyway. or it damages a character for the rest of their lives. but mostly the plots of the YA books i've seen are so "boy meets girl blah blah blah."
and this is a really weak point but the print in YA books is so big. and the books are barely average size. so if you really sized it smaller, it wouldn't look very book-y. XP. i don't know, if books have big print it's kind of a turn-off for me.
so my beef with YA literature is that it's basically....children's with slightly upgraded vocabulary, and slightly more adult themes, but lacking in depth. it's like eating a bunch of sugar crackers. tastes good but there isn't much substance.
sure i guess you can read them for leisure, but why read shallow stuff when you could get some deeper than pww, hard-hitting awesomeness? people think "classics" are so nerdy and impossible. and are intimidated when they look like bricks. but why are they classics? they have good plot, characterization, themes, INSIGHT. that's why they've lasted so long, and most titles in the YA genre won't. yep so to me: books are srs bsns, but that doesn't mean it's not fun. it also doesn't mean to run around writing in chatspeak, or bitching about breakups, or gossip about how kurosaki likes tsurara secretly (nyahaha).
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because maybe i'm like hoity-toity or something but it bothers me a lot when people think goosebumps or effing twilight or whatever you can find in the YA section in the library is great literature. i don't mean to totally diss the authors/editors/fans of these sorts of books, but really i think the "young adult" genre is kind of...not unnecessary but overrated. some of the books are pretty good, i like artemis fowl, i liked flipped, e.l. konigsburg is pretty awesome...but then all those series like traveling pants, gossip girl, etc etc. don't make much sense or hold much appeal for me. they're so shallow in terms of themes and i don't want to say morals but kind of yes. i haven't read gossip girl, though their covers are pretty cute XP, but i did read traveling pants when i was way too young for the material, so maybe that explains my YA-hate. nonetheless it's really weird seeing things like "omg lol wtf" in print like it's serious reading. take for example that series "ttyl" where it's all in chat. or that book i had before "click here" that was in chatspeak. you can't be serious when u rite liek dis. there's just no way.
also, they're so generic in terms of plot. sure many adult books are like that (i'm looking at you chick-lit) but it's just so watered down in YA. i mean what sells? sex drugs and violence. all of which are totally diluted and made to look ~edgy~ anyway. or it damages a character for the rest of their lives. but mostly the plots of the YA books i've seen are so "boy meets girl blah blah blah."
and this is a really weak point but the print in YA books is so big. and the books are barely average size. so if you really sized it smaller, it wouldn't look very book-y. XP. i don't know, if books have big print it's kind of a turn-off for me.
so my beef with YA literature is that it's basically....children's with slightly upgraded vocabulary, and slightly more adult themes, but lacking in depth. it's like eating a bunch of sugar crackers. tastes good but there isn't much substance.
sure i guess you can read them for leisure, but why read shallow stuff when you could get some deeper than pww, hard-hitting awesomeness? people think "classics" are so nerdy and impossible. and are intimidated when they look like bricks. but why are they classics? they have good plot, characterization, themes, INSIGHT. that's why they've lasted so long, and most titles in the YA genre won't. yep so to me: books are srs bsns, but that doesn't mean it's not fun. it also doesn't mean to run around writing in chatspeak, or bitching about breakups, or gossip about how kurosaki likes tsurara secretly (nyahaha).
public because ranting should be? depends on the subject of rant. in this case, public.
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