tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post114644353806505437..comments2024-03-07T17:13:54.927-05:00Comments on A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition: Spit Worthyfusenumber8http://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-1149461016378910292006-06-04T18:43:00.000-04:002006-06-04T18:43:00.000-04:00On the contrary, many young adult novels are much ...On the contrary, many young adult novels are much more beautifully written than those that would be categorized as "adult novels". However, I can see how one could jump to this conclusion; quite a few YA books today ARE trash... But then again, when has that not been true? You just have to look through that and hunt for the good books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-1146505119639421242006-05-01T13:38:00.000-04:002006-05-01T13:38:00.000-04:00I'm glad you said that, Dan, cause basically that ...I'm glad you said that, Dan, cause basically that was my reaction as well. But I just thought I was too dense to follow the author's logic. Now I see there wasn't any. Phew!<BR/><BR/>And yes, the article does seem to be saying that there was once a golden era of children's literature that we've somehow left behind. Now was that before or after the publication of James Daugherty's, "Daniel Boone"? <BR/><BR/>hee hee hee.fusenumber8https://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-1146502124787272922006-05-01T12:48:00.000-04:002006-05-01T12:48:00.000-04:00I think the odder thing about this is that it's su...I think the odder thing about this is that it's such an unsupportable logical jump. One woman plagiarized because YA fiction is self-regarding trash? WTF? To borrow another phrase from the French, "it does not follow."Dan McCoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16231241053500980570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-1146496036162873922006-05-01T11:07:00.000-04:002006-05-01T11:07:00.000-04:00Having experienced my share of irritation at this ...Having experienced my share of irritation at this kind of talk (and there's ever so much of it), I'm attempting to now serenely disregard such blather. <BR/>(That said, I want to especially point out the laughableness of this assertion: "The majority of books aimed at today's young people fall into this last category." Does that imply that the majority of books aimed at yesterday's young people were A-OK? Do we long for a return to the insipid/racist gendered genre fiction of the early to mid-century? Yes, I'm aware that implies an awareness of the history of children's book publishing that clearly is not present.)Zilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169012830293072980noreply@blogger.com