12-15-2012, 04:19 PM | #61 |
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I read all the Heinlein 'juveniles' well after becoming an adult. They were wonderful!
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12-16-2012, 12:15 AM | #63 |
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12-16-2012, 01:24 AM | #64 |
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The twilight saga.
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12-16-2012, 02:40 AM | #65 |
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12-16-2012, 06:10 AM | #67 |
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12-17-2012, 08:15 PM | #68 |
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12-17-2012, 08:24 PM | #69 |
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Pay Me!? I would sound out jumbles of letters if I was getting paid. Beats my real job. |
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Also, not all YA is Twilight and Twilight is not all there is to YA. And it may come as a surprise to some, but there is more to YA than vampire romance - and not all YA is even romance-focused at all! And even if there is some romance, although it's not the focus of the plot, not everyone reads the books for that. Not that there is anything wrong with people who do. *shrugs* Back on topic: "adult" books. Erotica. Most textbooks. Inspirational/religion-focused books. Anything featuring graphic rape or extremely graphic murders. Poetry. Books for pre-schoolers. Political treatises. Philosophy. Most anything that bores me, really. Although if they paid really well, I could probably pretend to read them / skim them... |
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12-18-2012, 09:03 AM | #71 |
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I've read and enjoyed the occasional YA book. In fact, a few years ago I searched the web to find, order, and read a crumbling copy of the 10th book in the Bomba the Jungle Boy series. As a youth, I bought the books whenever they arrived in one of our local Woolworth's 5 & 10¢ store. Unfortunately, they stopped selling the books after the ninth one. Since the whole point of the series was Bomba's search for his parents, whom he was to find in book ten, I spent the rest of my youth and most of my adult life never knowing what happened to them.
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12-18-2012, 11:16 AM | #72 |
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Enough money and I suppose I could read anything...
However, it would take LOTS of money (or threats of horrible things to come) to get me to read Diana Gabaldon's Outlander. |
12-18-2012, 11:57 AM | #73 |
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The Fifty Shades trilogy....no amount of money could get me to read it, and I'm broke
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