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Yet the people who like and read YA(or NA)'s ages are often as varied as the people's ages who don't like it and won't read it. These labels seem to be less of an "aimed at age group 'X'" affair, and more of a "aimed at readers who enjoyed the last cult hit with the label 'X'" kind of thing to me. In other words, the wording of the label itself is basically meaningless--except in a branding sort of way. And if it's all about the ages of the characters.... well.... who was Dickens targeting with Oliver Twist? Or Joyce with Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man? Huck Finn? Crane and that young man sporting a "red badge of courage"?
My problem with these labels is that they bring absolutely nothing to the descriptive table—regardless of the potential buyer/reader's age; "What kind of book is it... what's it about?" "Oh, it's New Adult." It's meaningless unless you already know the secret hand-shake of that particular cultural circle. Last edited by DiapDealer; 02-22-2013 at 11:16 AM. |
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Yes, it's all about branding.
And marketting. And gatekeeping. Especially formula gatekeeping. The YA label has a formula and NA is simply adding explicit sex to the same formula. |
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New Adult seems to be too much of a new genre to really figure out yet, but I have to admit that good college/college age stories are pretty rare (or were back when I was interested in reading about that age range). Dunno why that is. I'd hope some good college stories come out of this New Adult genre. |
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I have read Tammara Webber--I think she's great--when I thought it was romance.
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I would not call an 18-year-old an adult. 21-year-old yes. If you are not legally allowed alcohol, then you are not yet an adult.
The things you should legally be able to do when becoming an adult...Sex, marriage, drive, able to be drafted, drink booze. All those things have to be in place before I would consider you an adult (in the legal sense) |
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New Adult is smut for the pre-adult. That's what it is.
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Ok, I was curious after reading through this thread about the background to the name. I found this recent article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex...ing-trend.html. It was interesting to me, as I had not heard the term before or I hadn't paid attention to it.
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Another way to look at it...
New Adult is the kid's first porn with words. |
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I disagree. We've had porn/smut for a long time. This is just a way to market it to a younger audience.
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