/lit/ - Literature

I think it's something to do with the general dumbening of society. People perceive proper literature as "too difficult", and YA is nice and gratifying and simple and black and white and dramatic while still pretending to deal with big themes. It's the literary equivalent of eating ice cream on the sofa in your pajamas while watching friends / supernatural / sex and the city reruns. Nice and pleasant and gratifying and doesn't require effort.

Don't get me wrong, there's some intensely enjoyable YA like Harry Potter and His Dark Materials, but a lot of is it too teen-angsty to be really good