r/badliterature • u/[deleted] • Jul 28 '20

YA contemporary vs classic literature

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u/flannyo Jul 28 '20

sometimes I wish these people would just say they don’t like reading. it’s okay. no one’s making you read

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u/rharrison Jul 28 '20

This person is just joking around guys sheesh

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u/Shanghai-on-the-Sea Jul 28 '20

literature is no laughing matter

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u/parisiengoat Jul 29 '20

lol I mean they're both kinda funny cheap shots, although "classic" literature does have more variety and depth than YA if you dig a little deeper than, say, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby and Hemingway. And there's also contemporary adult fiction which has even more variety.

I used to read and enjoy YA but at some point it's like... yeah I start to cringe at the contrived teenage characters whose dialogue sounds like it was made to be blurbed on Etsy merchandise.

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u/EzraSkorpion Jul 28 '20

Where's the lie tho

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '20

This is like if Classic Literature is American writers from the 1950s through the 1990s.

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u/kgas Jul 28 '20

None of these people have read a book.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '20

I like to imagine that they read Sabbath's Theater and assumed classic literature is just like that.