02-23-2013, 01:04 AM | #46 |
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So what is Old Adult and Middle Adult? ;D
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02-23-2013, 08:19 AM | #47 |
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02-23-2013, 08:41 AM | #48 |
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These days we love categorizing, labelling and shoving everything into a defined box to the point of ridiculousness and this is just more of that silliness. Just another marketing buzzword that means nothing.
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02-23-2013, 08:42 AM | #49 |
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I really don't get all those neatly defined labels for everything nowadays... I just go by stuff I want to read and stuff I don't want to read, mostly based on the blurb and quick nosey at the writing style. All those "coming of age" type books have never appealed to me though, by my late teens my favourite book was (and still is over 20 years later) Les Chants de Maldoror
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While browsing on Amazon yesterday, I saw a book described as, "Adult Science-fiction for children."
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Yes, but............It gets them reading. In my day (many days back it's true ) Nancy Drew mysteries were YA and considered trash.. They weren't in the public or school libraries. I had to save my babysitting money and buy them from our local department store. As sillie as they were and as the new urban romance stuff is or some consider it is, it gets YAs READING and they will in time get sick of the stuff and branch out to other genres..
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Hmmm. In my day they were (along with their stable-mates of the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift) simply regarded as children's books. "YA" was a label that was invented for such books much, much later.
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I've never seen a Nancy Drew in the YA section; always the children's section. Even though Nancy is theoretically 17...
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