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Post by lysystrata on Jan 31, 2011 1:46:40 GMT
enjorous i'd be surprised if you could stump me with a series. I may be 17 but I'm pretty well read,
~Sara~
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Post by Enjorous on Jan 31, 2011 1:50:09 GMT
I read it because I was forced to watch the movie for a film class. And had to reaffirm my faith in the book always being better than the film.
And generally I don't read a lot of YA, I stick to genre fiction (Horror, sci fi, fantasy) and lit fic.
And yes YA has exploded in the last 5 years. And that I will credit solely to HP and Twilight.
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Post by azb on Jan 31, 2011 1:52:57 GMT
The HP boom was before that. So it's really just the Twilight Effect  Dude, I love sci-fi. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2011 1:53:36 GMT
I don't even remember why I read Twilight. I just did. It was an easy enough reading to get lost in. Easy enough to blow through. I loved Harry Potter and maybe hoped the Twilight series was just as good. Disappointed but hey, it was reading.
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Post by megster1992 on Jan 31, 2011 1:55:15 GMT
I read it because we were having CATS testing and I needed something to read in between tests, because we don't do anything in class. My sister handed me Twilight.
Needless to say, she regrets it and is cautious when she recommends something to me.
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Post by lysystrata on Jan 31, 2011 1:56:00 GMT
I've never liked the ski fee abbreviation but I read Burroughs 'A Princess of Mars' in third grade. Heinlein is my all time favorite in that genre.
~Sara~
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Post by azb on Jan 31, 2011 1:55:27 GMT
I was told I should. I think I was just so impressed that some of my classmates had actually visited the library, that I went along with it.
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Post by Enjorous on Jan 31, 2011 2:00:40 GMT
The HP boom was before that. So it's really just the Twilight Effect Dude, I love sci-fi. HP was one of the first YA series published in hardback. And it's boom continued into 2007 for sure. |
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Post by azb on Jan 31, 2011 2:21:27 GMT
No way. The boom comes when everyone all of a sudden perks up in interest and goes "Shit. That book is making it." That happened with the first few books, where other people and companies were scrambling for similar sorts of stories. You get more male protagonists out of those sorts of response books than you do female ones, because Harry Potter was responsible for male readers as well as female ones, and it was the male readers that they wanted to keep interested. Artemis Fowl, Spiderwick Chronicles, Deltora Quest, Eragon. The interest has sustained, but the boom has stopped. Boom is rapid growth. It's not rapidly growing. Actually, point of interest, Twilight is the fastest growing FF archive. It seems like just yesterday that it only had 20,000 stories. |
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Post by megster1992 on Jan 31, 2011 2:24:04 GMT
Look at the cyborg with his/her infinite wisdom.
We must now bow down to the Awesome Invisible Dragon of Awesomeness. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2011 2:25:26 GMT
Hey! Sucking up is my gig!
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Post by lysystrata on Jan 31, 2011 2:26:33 GMT
Eragon was damned good until I realized I'd already seen 'Star Wars'
~Sara~
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Post by Enjorous on Jan 31, 2011 2:27:41 GMT
I remember when it hit 100k. That also seemed like yesterday.
I think we're just mixing up our meanings. In giving credit to certain things, HP definitely started it off and Twilight really put the final nail in. (That's from Publishers Digest btw)
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Post by megster1992 on Jan 31, 2011 2:30:34 GMT
Never seen Star Wars. Never want to, either.
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Post by Enjorous on Jan 31, 2011 2:31:12 GMT
Get thee to the video store!
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