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Anonymous Mon Jul 30 20:00:14 2018 No.11543238 [Reply] [Original]

Why don't you like contemporary YA?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 20:01:08 2018 No.11543242 Cause its shit. Worst of both worlds, terrible style and substance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 20:06:07 2018 No.11543261 >>11543238 >no style >no substance >no originality

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 20:10:33 2018 No.11543273 >>11543238 It’s fer grils

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 20:17:49 2018 No.11543296 File: 3 KB, 242x208, download.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >first person present tense

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 20:19:45 2018 No.11543301 i've never read any but angry internet frogs who probably haven't read any either tell me it's bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 22:34:34 2018 No.11543817 because at that point i might as well watch TV

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 22:38:20 2018 No.11543831 >>11543238 I'm not a young adult.

Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:00:10 2018 No.11543920

>>11543238
Because I read so much great YA stuff when I was a YA but I'm no longer a YA, which I'm glad because it seems like being a YA nowadays sucks for shit. Way overprotective and coddling parents, far more patronizing teachers and authors combined with social media magnifying all the worst shit about being a tween/teen tenfold but you can't get away from it without being some sort of Amish-like weirdo.

Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:08:18 2018 No.11543957

What YA were you lads into when you were YA? I loved Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson and Deltora Quest. Also really enjoyed the Andy Griffiths series (Just Tricking, Just Stupid, Just Annoying etc).
Never got into Harry Potter, though. Always hated that shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:10:48 2018 No.11543969 Because it's written by women and males who wish they were women

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:12:18 2018 No.11543979 >>11543301 came here to post this but it was already taken

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:19:25 2018 No.11544013 Chris wooding is goat

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:23:14 2018 No.11544033 >>11543238 >I was drizzle, she was a hurricane

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:29:42 2018 No.11544058 I like earthsea

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 30 23:39:16 2018 No.11544092 >>11543238 YA has and always will be terrible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 00:05:27 2018 No.11544170 >>11543238 You're better off reading superhero pulp from the 30's.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 00:06:33 2018 No.11544174 >>11543238 Because it's like Boys' Own Adventures done worse.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 00:37:57 2018 No.11544291 File: 2.06 MB, 2880x2160, 20180730_213721.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You faggots should pick up a book once in a while

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 00:39:51 2018 No.11544293 >>11544291 I don't like that

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 02:42:43 2018 No.11544555 >>11544291 literally "it was a dark and stormy night" how

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 03:16:27 2018 No.11544664 >>11543957 Australian detected

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 10:45:16 2018 No.11546144 >>11543261 No grace neither

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 10:46:27 2018 No.11546147 >>11544291 How do you read like that? >>11544293

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 10:49:30 2018 No.11546153 >>11546147 Oops, ignore second quote..

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 10:52:05 2018 No.11546164 File: 54 KB, 314x475, martin.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11543957 Motherfucking Redwall

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 10:59:25 2018 No.11546195 target audiences unavoidably cause a lesser work

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 11:06:37 2018 No.11546215 >>11543261 THIS AUTHOR HAS TERRIBLE PACE HE CAN GRANDSTAND WHEN HE NEEDS TO AND STRETCH HIS STORY OUT, JUST 4U

Anonymous Tue Jul 31 11:16:53 2018 No.11546261

>>11543957
I was a massive fan of the Percy Jackson series when I was a YA. I got into Artemis Fowl and Maximum Ride by stealing the books from my school's library and book fair. My dad gave me his old copy of The Rats of NIMH, which I thought was the tightest shit when I was young
Never read Harry Potter because the movies made it seem rather redundant at the time

As for why I dont read it nowadays, generally its very simplistic that almost all follow a similar trend of fantastical bildungsroman with a healthy dose of equal parts escapism, and teenage edginess, and cynicism. Plus, a large amount of it is targeted to young adult women, which is a cancer Im happy to not contract

Anonymous Tue Jul 31 11:20:50 2018 No.11546281

I enjoyed Tanith Lee's works as a kid. Her prose, while not spectacular, was wasted on writing YA fiction, and she came from that old school anti-puritan romantic mindset that was not afraid to throw some questionable bodice ripping non-con in to her Clockwork Robot-Angel adventure story for teens. YA has never really been good, but it has not always been as gripped by moral hysteria as it is now, and that is what has turned it into a genre that is scorned viciously or defended mindlessly rather than the traditional attitude of detached patronization. The fans now, for the most part, neither young nor particularly adult, and overall disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 11:23:29 2018 No.11546288 >>11546215 Lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 11:40:41 2018 No.11546347 File: 1.28 MB, 1000x840, Darren_Shan_with_fans_-_cropped.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Who /DarrenShan/ here? I think it's reading his books towards the end of primary school that turned me into such an edgy cunt teenager

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 11:42:08 2018 No.11546352 >>11546347 Is there anything more based than naming your main character after yourself?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 11:43:31 2018 No.11546357 >>11543296 ew fuck, does YA really do this?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 12:43:01 2018 No.11546609 File: 58 KB, 459x344, 8484C78F-03B6-48D3-B62F-0BA830B74F96.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 99% of it is writers hamfistingly beating easily predictable tropes and pacing into the ground. It’s too similar. Everyone is writing the same story.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 13:08:59 2018 No.11546693 >>11546347 >tfw my mum wouldn’t let me read the second book because they thought they were satanic propaganda after I started telling her about how much I enjoyed the first one

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 14:10:17 2018 No.11546967 >>11543238 I'm not a young adult. I didn't like YA as a young adult either, mind you. Well, I somewhat liked the Animorph series in my early teens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 14:11:19 2018 No.11546973 >>11543957 Harry Potter isn't YA, it's for children.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 14:13:40 2018 No.11546984 >>11544664 I'm Brazilian

Anonymous Tue Jul 31 14:14:05 2018 No.11546987

>>11546357
>I swing my legs off the bed and slide into my hunting boots. Supple leather that has molded to my feet. I pull on trousers, a shirt, tuck my long dark braid up into a cap, and grab my forage bag. On the table, under a wooden bowl to protect it from hungry rats and cats alike, sits a perfect little goat cheese wrapped in basil leaves. Prim’s gift to me on reaping day. I put the cheese carefully in my pocket as I slip outside.

From the Hunger Games. It's a staple of the genre, apparently.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 14:27:22 2018 No.11547068 File: 1.97 MB, 380x285, 1526632268616.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11546987

Anonymous Tue Jul 31 14:41:12 2018 No.11547139

>Young Adult
When did we decide that teenagers are 'young adults'? Or do we now accept that people read books designed for children even when they're well into their 20s? There's no shame in enjoying good children's literature, but let's not pretend it's for 'adults'.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 14:44:43 2018 No.11547156 >>11547139 >YA books are catered towards readers from 12 to 18 years of age I think it's just that no self-respecting teenager would read anything labelled as "teenage literature."

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