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The tone of some of your comments about adults reading YA sound rather disparaging to me. There's been other disparaging remarks about YA in the club in the past as well and I'm not sure if others have said things as well or if the comments have always been from you but regardless considering all the YA nominations this month and your comments in this thread I thought it was as good a time as any to offer as robust a defence as I could muster.
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...I'm also currently reading a YA book, Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome, the second of his wonderful Swallows and Amazons series, which book I unaccountably missed out when I read the rest as a kid, no doubt because my library didn't have it...
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That reminds me of how much harder it was when I was young to read things in proper order considering availability. I remember reading The Chronicles of Narnia - except I only had a few available. So I read the first book, something from the middle that I can't even remember which and the last book which was therefore pretty confusing.
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Perks of Being a Wallflower - Not good, written to be "relevant" and it sinks under the weight of all that relevance. I read it at the behest of my then 13-year old niece, who thought it was wonderful and I can see why a kid of that age would find a lot of depth in it.
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I respectfully disagree with your assessment (as might be expected, considering my earlier praise of the book). I thought it was wonderful and it's a favourite of mine, which is all the more surprising considering its origins from MTV Books and a first-time novelist. I think a person of any age can find depth in it, even if not you.
