All those "teen" books that assumes we're either amazingly stupid with unresolved issues, or that we'll feel sympathetic towards people like that. I HATE books like that!!! And adults tend to think they're "classics". Example... 'The Giver'. And 'A Separate Peace'. And 'Gathering Blue'. They're horrible! Nobody with a brain is really that conflicted and angst-ridden.
2006-06-05 10:32:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
uglymug- much appriciated.
2006-06-06 05:13:35 · update #1
Yes, I read "The Giver", and although it's famous and lots of people liked it... I thought it was poor. And yes, I knew it was supposed to be allegorical, but it most definately was angst-ridden.
2006-06-07 01:32:51 · update #2
Yeah i agree. I mean first you have to read about all the angst, then your teacher makes you over analyze everything with like "whats the symbolism blah blah blah. Just because a few teens have problems doesn't mean that the rest of us do. So people should stop implying that we are like that
2006-06-05 13:16:09 · answer #1 · answered by flamelover 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure how you can say that the people in The Giver are "amazingly stupid with unersolved issues" and "conflicted and angst-ridden" or that the people who read that book are. If you'd mentioned a few books like that, maybe, but maybe you didn't actually get the point of The Giver. Did you even read it?
2006-06-06 13:22:37 · answer #2 · answered by Washed Up Top Soil 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was right with you until you mentioned "The Giver" and "A Separate Peace." I like those two books a lot.
Wait until you get into adult "literary fiction." "Literary fiction" is a code word for books that don't sell but everybody wants to claim to have read because the critics and English professors just rave about them. On occasion, one is actually good. But most are completely depressing - filled with characters who are unhappy home wreckers.
2006-06-06 13:01:06 · answer #3 · answered by poohba 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure "The Giver" classifies as teen literature. I know that's how it's marketed, but I read it for my senior AP lit class in high school. It's meant to be allegorical, though I understand your interpretation if you took it literally.
I'll accept your general complaint though. I didn't spend much time reading teen literature - skipped right to general fiction.
2006-06-06 13:15:16 · answer #4 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't buy into "classics." They're almost always determined by the most uninspired. The books you mentioned ared particularly nasty.
2006-06-05 21:37:45 · answer #5 · answered by Malaclypse T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate most contemporary lit. Give me the classics, not crap that tries to teach a stupid lesson..
2006-06-05 17:44:29 · answer #6 · answered by ndmac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, so true. I can agree with you on certain things.
2006-06-05 17:35:08 · answer #7 · answered by ♥♫i luv♥♫juicy fruit♥♫gum 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean you're not?
2006-06-05 20:50:31 · answer #8 · answered by Modest intellect 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋