I think the whole YA thing is kind of complicated. As a kid I really skipped it all--I had little interest in teenaged stuff like Forever. But now a lot of things that are really just classics are classified as YA, I guess just because kids read them. So while 3 Musketeers was for adults, it's the type of book a kid might get assigned in school so it gets put in YA. I remember working at the kids' bookstore and sort of laughing at that--you get stuff like Jane Eyre or Animal Farm in YA when it's really for adults, just because if a teenager was looking for books those would be appropriate.
I always think of real YA books to be specifically written for young people. Not that all those books are bad; there are some good ones. I just never had much interest in the subject matter that usually made it up--teen problems etc. I found them boring too, but that winds up being what I think of when I think of YA. Though that's not to throw out the whole genre--YA fantasy seems to be having interesting stuff written for it now. (At least I assume mistful's trilogy that she just sold will be interesting, for instance.)
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Date: 2007-10-05 04:55 pm (UTC)I always think of real YA books to be specifically written for young people. Not that all those books are bad; there are some good ones. I just never had much interest in the subject matter that usually made it up--teen problems etc. I found them boring too, but that winds up being what I think of when I think of YA. Though that's not to throw out the whole genre--YA fantasy seems to be having interesting stuff written for it now. (At least I assume