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02-22-2013, 04:41 PM | #32 |
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Nope. We didn't have stuff like that going around. In fact, we never had anything going around that was forbidden. Then again, if it wasn't science fiction or fantasy, I probably would not have been interested. I did read other things, but not nearly as much.
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It isn't porn. The stories I read aren't porn. The new adult stories I've read were well written coming of age stories that had very brief losing virginity scenes that were tastefully done.
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So call them "coming of age" instead of this really ridiculous new adult nonsense.
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Come to think of it, what is the dividing line here between "new adult" and what is normally called "chick lit"? Less designer name-dropping? Less apparently-shallow?
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Chick Lit is the stuff a girl gets her BF to read after nagging him repeatedly. New Adult is stuff that no amount of nagging is going to get any guy to read.
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New Adult is characters ages between 19 and 25 which is targeted among college kids. It's a genre where you read alot about firsts and I love it. As romances has evolved Adult Romance characters have grown older even in historicals where the heroine use to be 17 to 21 she now has to be old enough to be called a spinister or widowed. |
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But the term new adult is garbage. You are an adult or you are not an adult. You are not young, you are not new. You are or are not. There is no in between. There is no different levels of adultness. That's why this term is 100% garbage. Young adult is just as much garbage for the same reason.
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