This isn't a young adult novel. Was this a mistake?

The valentine video was just dumb, junior high school humor dumb. I'm not sure I can listen to opinions from someone who thought that was the funniest, weirdest and most wonderful video ever.

The ninja cat made me laugh.

It must be hard to be a serious Conservative right now. I feel for them. Fortunately there aren't that many of them.

Someone pointed out that McCain spits out random crap that he doesn't even believe. The problem with Palin is that she probably does believe it, even if it doesn't make sense.

Ww. Nw dmbst thng vr.

I like it when people post rants without vowels, funny leet spelling, all caps, etc. It lets you know that you don't have to bother reading that post. I hate it when I get halfway through a post before I realize they're wasting my time.

That's how my wife and I play games, I control the character, she cheers, makes suggestions, reads maps, etc. We debate moves before we make them.

We're not interested in MMO's or anything like that. It's not the same thing, we like to play together.

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I'm still at the point of "absurd" as he puts it. Lame. Narcissistic. It's channel flipping, keeping yourself occupied with nonsense. Like this site is for me, only non stop.

I don't even text message, when I occasionally get one I call the person back and ask them what they want.

Then again I am over 30. Thank God.

I like the ring, I don't understand the purpose of the dots. No one seems to have mentioned them, unless I missed it.

why can't you just sort by date and delete everything more than a certain period old?

There is a feature about a young adult novel almost every day. I don't understand. Is this a teen site now?

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I have a wire recorder. works great. I also have some 50(?) year old recordings of people that sound like new. The wires I have don't fade like tape.

F this guy. Try to run people like this off the road. Seriously. Preemptive strike.

I think I didn't quite make my point correctly. That's because I ramble a lot.

If a particular "young adult" book is judged to be as or more "gutsy", mature, serious, and readable for adults, then why are you calling it a YA book? That just sounds like a novel to me, one that younger adults might enjoy as well. Why the distinction? There must be a reason that it is not placed with the other "adult" novels. Saying length, or economy of plot doesn't make any sense to me, no adults like those things? Does that make "The Da Vinci Code" a YA title? I've read few books that were more simplistic than that. My guess is that if "The Da Vinci Code" featured younger people as the main characters and was marketed as a YA book there would people here heaping praise on it for it's depth and seriousness.

I think my problem probably has more to do with the immaturity of most people (where 40 year olds dress and act like 20 year olds) and the fetishizing of kids (where people use terms like "pre-tween"). Why can't we just treat young adults like young adults and let them read good (or bad) fiction with the rest of us? Why does everyone have to be divided up and categorized to enhance and explore their "uniqueness"?

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I don't remember reading any YA fiction when I was a kid. Maybe I'm too old?

I find the arguments kind of ridiculous.

1. "YA fiction isn't any less than adult fiction, and can and should be read by adults on the same terms." Then why is it categorized as YA in the first place? For that matter, how? How can you even tell what's YA and what isn't if it has the same quality, maturity, intensity, and depth as adult fiction as claimed here?

2. "YA is really important, we need it to draw in kids who wouldn't otherwise read". How does that work, if it's on the same level as adult fiction (back to point 1)?

You can't have it both ways. YA books are, by definition, books for kids. Quit trying to make it something it's not.

Why is there even a category called Young Adult if you want it to be everything an adult novel is? I think even saying "adult novel" is ridiculous, it's just a novel. Is Tom Sawyer a YA novel? Maybe I'm not understanding the point, is any book with a teen separated and called YA? Why, because we don't want teens to feel like they're part of the bigger world?

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I really don't understand adults using these "social networking" sites at all. Then again, I'm old, and people are getting more and more immature. Maybe there are more teenagers reading this site than I think.