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shadowkatThe poll below is well what it looks like - a poll to stave off general boredom. I have no idea what to call the thing - Culture Poll with Weather and a few other quirky non-related poll questions??
Since it is a poll and I suck at editing these things and never pre-plan them, there are no doubt tons of errors. My apologies, but can't change them. It is what it is. Tried to leave an "other option" for all categories...because I reached my limit (lj cuts you off at a certain point, not sure what DW would do since I can't figure out how to do it in DW). Thought about asking what your favorite relationship was, but there are more relationship possibilities that you could adore than there are radio buttons, even if I excluded Buffy entirely, I'd still have problems limiting the # choices. So, if you want you can answer that in comments?
This is all radio buttons - because I want a more definite result. If you can't make up your mind or it doesn't apply, just skip those questions that don't work for you - god knows I will.
Thanks for taking my poll. Hope it's more than ten people - one can never tell with these things. Be depressing if it's less. Will state, that's the risk I always take with polls. It's the risk we all take, I guess.
So here it goes:
[Poll #1672581]
Since it is a poll and I suck at editing these things and never pre-plan them, there are no doubt tons of errors. My apologies, but can't change them. It is what it is. Tried to leave an "other option" for all categories...because I reached my limit (lj cuts you off at a certain point, not sure what DW would do since I can't figure out how to do it in DW). Thought about asking what your favorite relationship was, but there are more relationship possibilities that you could adore than there are radio buttons, even if I excluded Buffy entirely, I'd still have problems limiting the # choices. So, if you want you can answer that in comments?
This is all radio buttons - because I want a more definite result. If you can't make up your mind or it doesn't apply, just skip those questions that don't work for you - god knows I will.
Thanks for taking my poll. Hope it's more than ten people - one can never tell with these things. Be depressing if it's less. Will state, that's the risk I always take with polls. It's the risk we all take, I guess.
So here it goes:
[Poll #1672581]
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Date: 2011-01-26 06:19 pm (UTC)Frank Herbert's books are quite complex given his writing and the concepts they are based on. I don't think he ever thought he was writing for young readers!
So if you don't mind my asking...I know what children books are but what's the difference between Adult books and Young adult books?
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Date: 2011-01-26 06:42 pm (UTC)I read Frank Herbert's Dune series when I was 14-15 years of age. Actually most of the people I knew read it at that age. Read Lord of the Rings in the Sixth Grade. And Stendhal's Red and the Black in the 8th Grade. CS Lewis - Fifth Grade.
Since I neither have kids or teach or handle them, I go by what I read as a kid as an indicator.
I define Young Adult/Adolescent as between the ages of 14-17 (includes Middle School and High School). Pre-Adolescent 8-14, and Child - 6-8.
I think it's very hard to categorize books...because so many people don't really tend to read age appropriate books. I know that I didn't.
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Date: 2011-01-26 07:01 pm (UTC)I read Dune as I was quite young too (13), but I also started reading Borges at that age and other classics (including Lady Chatterley's lover!) but I wouldn't say it's Young Adult literature!
To me there are children books that are for kids because they are "easier to read" in terms of syntax, vocabulary and topics, and the rest of books just belongs to literature.
That category of Young Adult Literature seems really weird to me, although they seem to be more and more books nowadays that typically aim at teenage readers indeed. I think it's a marketing thing and it is rather recent...but so is the notion of "adolescence" after all. And I'm sure there are sociologists working on that phenomenon of Young Adult Books!
Another question could be what is an age appropriate books?
What are the criteria?
;- P
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Date: 2011-01-27 12:07 am (UTC)What are the criteria?
Not really sure to be honest. I keep asking my brother and he never really gives me an answer regarding my niece.
My parents who both had wildly eclectic tastes were fairly laid-back about it - obviously. They just wanted me to read.
I think violence and sexual situations probably should be reserved for post tween or high-school. Slaughter-House 5 for example is too old for the pre-teen set. High school kids can handle and often do read adult novels.
I read everything. At 15 - I read Rosemary Rodgers who basically makes Lady Chatterly's Lover look rather tame. Rodgers wrote bodice ripper romance novels with graphic sex and quite a bit of violence. Also read Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. (My parents had them.) Tried Erica Jong's Fear of Flying but got incredibly bored.
So...I read a lot of literature and a lot of highly entertaining pulp. LOL!