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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice

This article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...804387216.html

by Lev Grossman looks at reasons why at least some people are abandoning "lit fic" and reading more YA: modern novels are boring. YA has strong plots, strong characters - it's not boring.

Great link.
Good article.
Deserves a thread all its own (with no NYT baggage).

Signature quote:

The balance of power is swinging from the writer back to the reader, and compromises with the public taste are being struck all over the place. Lyricism is on the wane, and suspense and humor and pacing are shedding their stigmas and taking their place as the core literary technologies of the 21st century.