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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Why do so many people say "pure entertainment" as if it's a negative thing?
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Sorry if that was how my post came across - I really didn't mean it like that! I genuinely just meant that I think that a lot of YA falls into that category, not that a "pure entertainment" category is a bad thing. I read a lot of stuff purely for the sake of entertainment because that's what I want to do and because I read a lot of boring legal stuff for uni. What I meant was that I think that some people do see that as a criticism and go to lengths to prove that YA books are "more" than that whereas I don't see why they need to be. There's a place for everything. However, I do think there's a difference between books that fall purely into the entertainment category and stuff that is a bit more "literary" for want of a better word. I just think they're for different things and that's not a criticism of one or the other.