that book meme #16
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orangerful16: Rant about anything book related
Two trends that I cannot stand right now in publishing:
1. Making books into comic books. Just to cash in. GUESS WHAT - Percy Jackson sold FINE in book form! They made a movie out of it! We don't need THE EXACT SAME STORY told in comic book form. I mean, if it was like the WARRIORS series where the comics were separate stories, I could deal with it, but just taking books and making them comics, with no real style, just an obvious cash-in, blah.
2. "Young Reader Editions" that are the same damn size as the adult book. Look, if you're in middle/high school and want to read 'Unbroken', just read 'Unbroken'. If you're interested in Malala, read her autobiography, not the "sanitized" version that is the "young reader's edition". Either your kid is ready for this, interested in this, or they are not.
The ABSOLUTE WORST is when they make a young reader's edition, a picture book edition and then a comic book. (okay that last one hasn't happened yet, but give it time!)
Anyone else have any book/publishing trends that are pet peeves at the moment?
Two trends that I cannot stand right now in publishing:
1. Making books into comic books. Just to cash in. GUESS WHAT - Percy Jackson sold FINE in book form! They made a movie out of it! We don't need THE EXACT SAME STORY told in comic book form. I mean, if it was like the WARRIORS series where the comics were separate stories, I could deal with it, but just taking books and making them comics, with no real style, just an obvious cash-in, blah.
2. "Young Reader Editions" that are the same damn size as the adult book. Look, if you're in middle/high school and want to read 'Unbroken', just read 'Unbroken'. If you're interested in Malala, read her autobiography, not the "sanitized" version that is the "young reader's edition". Either your kid is ready for this, interested in this, or they are not.
The ABSOLUTE WORST is when they make a young reader's edition, a picture book edition and then a comic book. (okay that last one hasn't happened yet, but give it time!)
Anyone else have any book/publishing trends that are pet peeves at the moment?
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Date: 2016-06-29 05:43 pm (UTC)Oh and I know about how the books have the original scripts, for a long time that was the only way to read about Biggs and Luke's friendship! That and listening to the radio drama...oh I wish they would do a radio drama for TFA! That would be AWESOME!!!!!
I remember those Harry Potter books, but the text was the same (well, the same as the UK edition??? I know the first US printing of Sorcerer's Stone had some British-isms switched out, like "torch" and "trainers" but they stopped that after the third book I think?)
Well, technically YA didn't "exist" in the publishing world until the 90s, but all we had were those awful Sweet Valley High and Christopher Pike novels LOL! I remember that sad little corner of my library, mostly I think they pulled them out due to content, so much kissing/making out in the Pike novels...I remember blushing while reading them! Funny what sticks in your mind. There is a reason I went right to adult books!!
I know my YA Lit class pointed to "The Outsiders" as one of the "first" (I'm using a lot of quotes, sorry) YA books and it took awhile for the publishing world to catch on that maybe teens DO read and they could market directly to them.
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Date: 2016-06-30 02:18 am (UTC)WOAH, turns out books published after 2004 are actually different than the originals!
(hugs my originals even being US)
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/differences.html
YA not existing until the 90s makes a lot of sense with my memory then. I read ALL the Christopher Pike novels. Years later I would be thoroughly disgusted at him:
http://www.dailysabah.com/books/2014/09/07/a-cautionary-tale
Oh Pike had more than just kissing, there was...SEX! Even abortion! There was also Fear Street by R.L. Stine and some Jerry Spinelli.
I couldn't find my reading type. Everything seems good so I would basically just start at one end of the bookshelf and work my way through...even the Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales on a dare and then Hans Christian Anderson because why not? Then, I read Jurassic Park, my first adult novel and the following school year had my teacher reading Goosebumps aloud. Goosebumps #1
So, it was all her fault. I started reading all the juvenile and YA horror except for Michael Crichton, I read all of his stuff, too. I read little else until 1997 when Star Wars and Buffy took over.
I remember reading The Outsiders for school. It was okay. There was also this diary of a teenage girl who was also an alcoholic. We also watched The Outsiders which most of the girls enjoyed because of the shirtlessness and everything.