Youth Lit'rature nostalgia is so in right now
#1
Posted 23 August 2005 - 01:24 AM
I have recently discovered that a lot of children's literature is as good, if not better, than "adult" fiction. Does anyone else agree, or disagree, with this? Maybe it's just me, but I've found that a lot of these books intended for pre-teens and teenagers have a lot more to say than most other novels.
Aaaaand if anyone else out there has any suggestions about any good YA novels, I'm hella open.
#3
Posted 23 August 2005 - 11:53 AM
Obvious choice: Harry Potter books.
L. Frank Baum's stuff is supposed to be amazing. Haven't read any yet though. I intend to someday.
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#4
Posted 23 August 2005 - 12:16 PM
"Maybe artists shouldn't talk about their art."
"Well kids, I guess your father isn't a hermaphrodite."
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#5
Posted 23 August 2005 - 08:32 PM
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#6
Posted 24 August 2005 - 01:40 AM
I read this in the hospital once when a strange variety of the bible was the only book in the room.
There is a palm tree and there is a pool!
-Which was really sort of funny because the person had never been there before. I also seem to recall that the book had a bit of a punctuation shortage and this was the most intelligible part I read. Not to say it's not an imaginative and probably pretty good book- it's very creative, I must say. I'm just going to need a translator in order to read it.
#9
Posted 24 August 2005 - 09:04 AM
I'd say the Discworld books are great for kids but, also, they are read by a lot of adults as well, the same way Harry Potter is and Hitchiker's Guide. Like the best "kid's books" they aren't written exclusively for the enjoyment of children but can be enjoyed by adults as well.
I agree with Mirithorn, Terry Pratchett's children's books are just so so. I read them because I'd read everything else at the time but I much prefer the Discworld stuff.
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#10
Posted 24 August 2005 - 09:05 AM
But it's probably true that fourteen year old boys and girls nowadays don't read as many book as some years ago, with Internet and everything.
#13
Posted 24 August 2005 - 11:16 AM
Edit: I also happen to enjoy the works of old Theodore.
This post has been edited by Dorothy: 24 August 2005 - 11:18 AM
"Maybe artists shouldn't talk about their art."
"Well kids, I guess your father isn't a hermaphrodite."
"Izzy! enough with the rabid smootching!!"
#14
Posted 24 August 2005 - 03:04 PM
Does Shel Silverstein count?
EDIT: Oh, I read way before I was fourteen, though my bookshelf only consisted of Goosebumps books and the other RL Stine series'.
This post has been edited by scubasteve4lyfe: 24 August 2005 - 03:08 PM
#15
Posted 24 August 2005 - 08:49 PM
will i like them at 29?
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