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Originally Posted by Luffy
I'm just saying that I'm finding my stance against the YA genre, difficult to reconcile with different strokes' mantra.
It's also true that YA specialist authors, not themselves adolescents, try to cater to the adolescent, in a way that to me is clumsy and cheap.
This is a nasty side of me that comes to life only when I'm online and refuse to see subjectivity in literature. In real life, I couldn't care less.
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I suspect the Sturgeon rule applies to YA books, i.e. 90% is crap. I think the better YA writers (Rowling, Riordan and Stroud to name some of the more famous ones) are very good, but since the demographic group as a whole tend to read a lot of books and aren't exactly sophisticated readers yet, much of it is fairly putrid.