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Joel Stein & Adults Who Read YA Are Silly

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The wonderful Alyssa Rosenberg of ThinkProgress has written a short and succinct article (with a lovely mention for me!) about satire writer Joel Stein's much-debated Adults Should Read Adult Books article that's being bounced all around publishing and the internet.

I think you'll find his article, and Alyssa's, and the comments on Alyssa's article (to which I contributed) pretty interesting, and of course you can say your own thinks right here. I hope you will, since I'm interested in what you have to say!

Replies from me won't come for a few days, since Tim and I will be at Marcon in Columbus, OH, but once I'm home I look forward to reading your comments.

I think Stein is a fathead, by the way. If he really is being satiric, as some have claimed, then I think he's a troll.

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shadow_milotic
Apr. 5th, 2012 04:01 pm (UTC)
"I appreciate that adults occasionally watch Pixar movies or play video games. That’s fine. Those media don’t require much of your brains."

...Clearly someone has never touched a video game in his life!

That article reads like flamebait, and I really hope that's what it is. Because you'd have to be an idiot to judge a book by its target audience rather than its content. :\ An "Adult" rating on a book does not automatically guarantee that it will be better, or more mature, or more interesting than a Young Adult novel.

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