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Anonymous Tue Nov 4 02:01:01 2014 No.5679937 [Reply] [Original]

What, exactly, is wrong with reading YA/genre fiction in addition to classic literature? This is something literally everyone does, but /lit/ acts unique for reading mainstream authors such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace at the exclusion of Stephen King, when literally everyone has read and enjoyed all three of those authors.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 02:06:03 2014 No.5679954 stop shitposting was there a guide for trolling here posted on some other board? because this is hitting all the right notes, but it's a little too good to be done by someone that actually knows the board

Anonymous Tue Nov 4 02:09:41 2014 No.5679969

How do you not know the answer to this? YA is no substance entertainment. Literary fiction asks questions, shares knowledge and perspective, and breaks conventions to show us something completely new.

How do you not understand this?

Why do cinephiles prefer art films to Die Hard? They ask more, they say more.

Why do musicians prefer experimental and unconventional music to by-the-numbers pop?

Why do trained athletes prefer real football to European football?

It's all about what you get out of something. If you're just getting into literature the greats will give you nothing, and Young Adult may seem like the only "unpretentious" stuff out there because of it's accessibility, but once you find the literary skills to make sense of the greats you'll see YA and genre fiction as simplistic and unstimulating.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 03:42:37 2014 No.5680189 >>5679969 >Why do musicians prefer experimental and unconventional music to by-the-numbers pop? Yeah, like the Beatles? >Why do trained athletes prefer real football to European football? Because they are uncultured swine

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 03:47:15 2014 No.5680200 >>5680189 >Yeah, like the Beatles? What are you trying to say here?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 03:51:09 2014 No.5680213 DFW is for pseuds and YA is for mental children. If you enjoy either your opinions about literature literally don't matter.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 03:54:06 2014 No.5680227 >>5680200 Beatles is shite, by-the.numbers pop. No more different, than One Direction, or whatever boybands makes preteen pussy wet nowadays

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 03:57:07 2014 No.5680235 >>5680227 I used to think that. Then I untipped my fedora.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 03:57:53 2014 No.5680237 >>5680213 >if you have these opinions then your opinions don't matter >if you don't share my opinions then your opinion doesn't matter this board is more insufferable than /pol/

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 03:59:59 2014 No.5680239 >>5680227 Just enjoy the music, anon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6iAykoKLog

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 04:01:24 2014 No.5680243 >>5680237 >babby is mad she can't be a real intellectual until she graduates the second grade

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 04:02:31 2014 No.5680248 >>5680237 Why even bother replying to a post like that?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 04:02:51 2014 No.5680249 >>5680227 >shite by the numbers pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_LHpiYUF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nehRB1FTeTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Q9D4dcYng

Anonymous Tue Nov 4 04:05:59 2014 No.5680257

>>5680235
>>5680239
>>5680249
Doesn't matter, still shite. You can't change my opinion about this, man. An ex-gf of mine broke up with me over this. She really loved The Beatles. And she had great tits and one hella fine pussy. But I am a man of principles.

Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:00:32 2014 No.5680343

what if someone made a YA book where the narrator is a douche? it seems like all YA had sympathetic characters so does having an asshole protag still bitching about navel gazing teenage problems change that? i mean is less than zero YA ? what's the difference between shit like that and say the perks of being a wallflower? the more drugs you do the less YA you are? what about catcher in the rye? to kill a mockingbird? or what about pulp written by reputable authors? this side of paradise? breakfast at tiffany's? answer me bitches

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:10:13 2014 No.5680360 >>5680257 this fucking disgusting subhuman needs to post some of his "non shite" music so we can confirm the irrelevancy of his opinion and confidently filter all posts with the word "shite"

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:13:05 2014 No.5680362 it literally doesn't matter if you read YA. /lit/ may think it matters because they want something to matter about their lives

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:20:44 2014 No.5680378 >>5680189 Beatles are entry-entry-level in music. They're respectable and admirable, but far away from the best. Also the fifth Beatle is better than all other 4 together.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:25:44 2014 No.5680385 >>5679969 you're listing pseud opinions. pseud cinephiles, pseud musicians. they don't appreciate the full spectrum of a given medium.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:29:11 2014 No.5680391 File: 39 KB, 571x480, lel.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5679969 >Why do trained athletes prefer real football to European football?

>>	>implying !dKJ3./mk0w Tue Nov 4 05:30:50 2014 No.5680395 >>5679937 >reading YA/genre fiction >classic literature?

Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:38:26 2014 No.5680411

>>5679937

>in addition to

Yeah you'd probably have to be a real uptight son of a gun to have a problem with that, but it seems to be an either/or kinda thing from my experience. People that I know who read YA/genre fiction do so at the exclusion of managing a good balance between the two. The pendulum swings towards the popular authors du jour and the literary love-in dies before it gets off the ground.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:41:33 2014 No.5680414 by the way any YA recommendations?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:53:42 2014 No.5680439 >>5680414 murukami

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:54:50 2014 No.5680442 >>5680343 Book of the New Sun. Severian is a dick n

>>	kitty !kitty/EnNg Tue Nov 4 05:56:53 2014 No.5680450 >>5680442 fiction doesn't automatically mean ya

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 05:57:21 2014 No.5680453 >>5680414 Asimov.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 06:05:02 2014 No.5680474 >>5680450 Tis a joke my love

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 4 11:46:55 2014 No.5681254 File: 61 KB, 960x720, 10672310_10152894722774453_301881769863756169_n.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5680213 >Stop liking what I don't like! Toddlermode engaged

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