Can't find this book in ebook or audiobook form anywhere
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Anonymous2009-11-13 1:59
It seemed like a really cool idea, steampunk/biopunk WWI and whatnot, but I read an excerpt from amazon.com and the writing is so juvenile it's on par with Goosebumps. I'll pass.
Yeah, it says "Young Adult Fiction" and I always wondered what that really meant. I guess my assumption that it was like Adult Fiction but less intelligent is right.
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Anonymous2009-11-13 9:20
>>11
That is one odd definition for young adult fiction. It is works targeted for the young adult crowd, more or less. It is not a categorization for skill.
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Anonymous2009-11-13 14:10
I never understood why a book with younger main characters would automatically be considered "young adult fiction". Based on that logic, shouldn't ASoIaF be considered young adult fiction?
Also, for the part of the book that's really worth it, go to KeithThompsonArt.com
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Anonymous2009-11-13 15:12
>>13 Based on that logic, shouldn't ASoIaF be considered young adult fiction?
Are you trying to say that it isn't?
I am not trying to define Young Adult Fiction. I am merely pointing out that most YA Fiction I have come into contact with appears to be toned-down Adult Fiction.
Not even when I was a "Young Adult" (whatever that really means) did I read YA Fiction. I wanted to read authors that people talked about. Like when you are trying to build up your film knowledge, you don't watch Happy Gilmore. You watch films like Citizen Kane (regardless of whether or not you think it is even a classic) because it is expected that anyone into film has seen it.
And yeah, I think it is often a categorisation of skill. Not that it is meant to be that way. It just is.