I just came across this 2-star review for the book Specials (part three of the young adult Uglies Trilogy):
It tackles an ambitious subject but doesn't translate to an adult audience.
If you are 18 or below you might enjoy it and may even be challenged by it.
An adult will find it boring and recycled from hundreds of science fiction novels.
Folks, just because you cried at Goblet of Flames (or whatever the last Harry Potter book was), doesn't mean every YA novel is going to resonate with your 30-year-old ass. There's a reason these books are shelved in the YOUNG ADULT section.
They are not for you, geezer!
And if you are really determined not to act your age and read a book for grown ups, at the very least don't go on Amazon and bitch about how a book designed for fourteen year olds bores you.
If you really want to criticize the Uglies Trilogy, you could talk about how each book stretches 250 pages of story across 500 pages because thanks to JK Rowling the book consumer has been conditioned to think that more pages equals better story. To that I say: Catcher in the Rye is 288 pages.
2 comments:
Catcher in the Rye is much better in Vietnamese translation provided that one does not know a single word of the language.
Well, if you want to read some really good YA fiction I would advise you to read any of Dave Eggers' backlog. In Vietnamese, mind you.
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