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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all the people against young adult you realize that the 30-year-olds you're talking about grew up with Harry Potter. It came out when they were 11, 12, 13, 14. And it revolutionized, even fomented the entire genre. Why should they give up reading books and others like it just because they've gotten older?

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Huh? There have always been young adult books. I read voraciously from the time I was 8 and I was not reading Cider House Rules at the age of 11. For most people tho, as they mature, YA fiction doesn’t have the requisite depth or complexity to keep their interest so they move on to books that are written for adults. [/quote]

You obviously didn't read enough. Cider House Rules is about as young adult as Of Mice and Men, which are literary fiction disguised as the narrative of newly independent teenagers coming to terms with a world of poverty, racism, inequality, and personal growth. They are dark, depressing, and pretty much the Gabriel Garcia Marquez literature of their times and trust me Love in the Time of Cholera may initially have a young protagonist, but it is [i]not[/i] a young adult book. [/quote]

Go back and Re-read the post. I was pointing out that there was YA fiction before Harry Potter; afterall I read a ton as a kid and it was NOT Cider House Rules. To totally spell it out, my point was that I was reading YA books as a kid, not adult books. The ridiculous statement that YA books did not exist before Harry Potter was what I was responding too. [/quote]

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