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Old 06-07-2019, 07:33 AM   #74
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Originally Posted by darryl View Post
Totally agree. For a reader the label is essentially useless. Whilst some of the books targeted at the younger range of the market may be written in a quite simplistic style, most is indeed just good mainstream commercial writing, largely indistinguishable from non-YA labelled works. Also, you're probably going to find very few pretentious works of literary fiction classified as YA. A plus for YA in my book!
To be perfectly fair, I find the label "literary fiction" to be equally useless. One person's pretentiousness is another's insightfulness or cutting commentary. Pretension is just as subjective as the notion of Mainstream Writing or Young Adult.
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