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I love reading and although I read adult novels as well, I still love reading young adult books, ie Sarah Jensen books, Twilight etc etc. A friend told me that it is catered to 12 to 16 yrs old and its kinda odd for someone in their 20s to be into it. Is that true? Any bees here who enjoy reading them too?
I LOVE young adult novels.. I am 23 and my fiance loves them too.. he is 26.. so don't let anyone tell you that you're too old to like something you enjoy.
I only read kids books. I still read the Narnia chronicles.
Im 22 and I like them better than "Adult" books! I guess Im still a kid at heart...
I agree with your friend, I find it strange for grown women to be enjoying books that have such a young target audience. Aside from the occasional nostalgic skim of Harry Potter I don't read or find YA books appealing.
@josephine90: No, I love YA books! They are fun, easy reads and its nice to read books that dont require much thought sometimes. I dont see a problem with it at all.
No! I think they are great and have great stories and the only reason they are called YA books is because they don't have anything innapropriate in them.
I think a great story is a great story. I read the first Harry Potter while I was part of the "Target Audience", but was early twenties by the time the last one came out, and can't imagine having just stopped because I was too old. I also read the Hunger Games, and felt it was just universally appealing. That said, I can't really imagine picking up a Sweet Valley high and really enjoying it for more than the nostalgia nowadays.
@SapphireSun: true, some YA really are targeted in the 8-12 range..but Ive found that many also have universal appeal (like HG, HP, CoN, Twilight)
im a harry potter fan but the freaky grandma aged women that go crazy over twilight (and creepier jacob obsession)... yeah, thats the too old category for me. its ok to enjoy a book for any age but not to have sexual fantasies about them
ugh. I went to the library recently and all three books I wanted were in the teen lit section and I'm 28! Whatever, I read for leisure... and I happen to find a lot of the light sci-fi YA novels great. I just finished the maze runner series yesterday... I don't know what to start next!
I still read the Narnia books, and a collection of books I started reading in 8th grade. I don't see anything wrong with it. I also read adult books.
For people that think it's weird: does that mean it's strange for adults to watch G, PG, or PG-13 rated movies too?
No! I'm 23 and very well-read, but I LOVE YA novels. I think there's a very magical quality about them that a lot of adult fiction can't capture. Plus, they're really "hot" right now, so a lot of good stuff is coming out of the genre.
I have a friend who constantly teases me about my affection for the genre. It really bothers me...just because "adult" is slapped on a novel doesn't make it more sophisticated. There's garbage in EVERY genre. As you can tell, this topic really annoys me :P
If you ever need recs, I've read a lot of great YA so I'm always happy to share :)
@eloping: Ugh, YES! There's a big difference between enjoying a series of books and having a 17 year old vampire's face tattooed on your butt. That is weird!
@MsMonkey: great, now theres an image i didnt have before reading your post! :)
@Lee_Ann: It depends on the movie. A lot of G and PG movies now have subtle adult themes for the purpose of adults enjoying them.
My mom is a middle school reading specialist so she still aprreciates YA in her 50s.
I do think it's creepy to be obsessed with them though (the 40 yo cooing at the Twilight movies?)
NO we're adults all day long, it's nice to escape to someone else's world for a while especially where the problem is choosing between a sweet hot vamp and a sweet hot werewolf, not bills being due!
@Aure: so do some YA books. I took a class on YA books in college, and we had to read a book a week. There were things we discussed in them that when I was a YA I didn't pick up on.
@Lee_Ann: I don't see it as the same thing at all. G and PG movies have plot lines and jokes that are designed to go over the target audience's heads so that the chaperones aren't miserable throughout the movie. YA books are targeted specifically to young adults. The plot lines aren't meant to go over their heads.
@MsMonkey: LOL i probably would not have done that even if I was still 16..good one!
I'm 21 and still read YA novels. Most YA has more "adult" undertones anyways.
As a Teen/YA Librarian, you are definitely not alone in this! There are so many great novels out right now, that just because they are targeted to a younger audience - mainly because they have a younger protaganist and don't (most of the time) include "adult" content (language/sex/extreme violence). I think comparing it to a rating on a movie or tv show is very valid. You can always watch/read something that is intended for a younger audience, and there is nothing wrong with that. Twilight, unfortunately, I don't think is the best example of great YA literature, The Hunger Games is definitely a much better series (at least the first 2 books were).
The YA classification is fairly new, like the past 10 years or so, and wasn't around when I was growing up. I wish it had been, but I don't mind reading them to catch up on what I've missed! (and I'd say a decent percentage of YA titles in our library get checked out by adults - no one thinks it is strange at all!!)
I love YA books! Sarah Dessen, Harry Potter, the Inheritance cycle, Tamora Pierce books, the Twilight series (not because Edward turns me on but because I like the love story), Phillip Pullman, Sherryl Jordan, etc.
I don't like the kind that are all about cheerleaders in high school and crap like that, but I do like the ones that are well written and have a good story behind them.
well, considering i just bough a childrens picture book recently for the soul fact that i liked the story and pictures (and no, i don't have kids), i'm gonna go with no. there's plenty of children's and young adult literature that are really good and should be enjoyed by more than just their target audience. actually, i wish i could get more people to understand that. i'm glad their are so many on here that aren't above reading below their age range.
I'm going to say that no there is nothing wrong with reading YA lit. I personally have a love of Biran Jacques Redwall series so I would say go for it. Something that I have noticed is that a lot of adult books, are kinda thinly veiled romance novels. I am not saying books by authors like stephen king but I am reading the Dark Hunters series by Sherrloyn kenyon and it has an exlent plot... but way, way too much sex ( and i am not a prude trust me, i wrote a paper on the sexual nature of gardens in shakespeare in college), that is completely unnessary. The Anita blake series by Laura k hamelton is another Good plot, turned smut book. I would prefer YA with a solid plot than random smut anyday.
I absolutely love kids and YA lit! I don't go for the high schoo drama stories or teen romance or anything though- but then, I never did when I was in the target age either. I love fantasy books like Harry Potter and the Inheritance cycle and the Hobbit. I also love Cornelia Funke, Eva Ibbotson, Shannon Hale, Gail Carson Levine, Margaret Peterson Haddix... a lot of their books are long with complex and interesting plots, but the main characters are children. The plots are generally fantasy-based though so the "kids" always come off as being more mature I think.
I like adult books too but I would take out all the sex scenes and dramatic romance parts of the stories, and since I'm 20 I have trouble relating to characters much older than mid 20s... so really, if you take those away, they're pretty much the same thing as YA books anyway :)
I am 27 and I am still a young adult so nar nar.
Seriously though. I love me some Harry Potter.
I will read anything you put in front of me so long as its well written!
Although I don't tend to read them, I don't see anything wrong with it. Some of them are probably better written than some crappy, mindless fiction for adults.
I don't read YA lit, just because I'm not interested, but I do watch Pixar movies, and those are for "kids."
I'm 31 and I love reading YA, I'm actually reading this book called "The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan and it's freaking good. It's all about Egyptians gods and it's great. I love reading and as long as it catches my attention within the first couple of pages, I won't put it down until it's done.
my mom (61y/o), sisters (39y/o) and i (28y/o) all circulate the same set of YA novels between ourselves :) A good book is a good book....and if it can appeal to an older demographic as well, then I say that's a good book.
You can read whatever the heck you want. No one has any right to judge you, nor is there any reason to feel guilty or ashamed of it. In fact, when I was a teenager looking for books in that section, quite a few actually seemed like they'd appeal more to adults than kids.
I also think when you read the biographies of authors such as CS Lewis or Lewis Carrol, it makes the books so much more interesting. As adults, we can "read between the lines."
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