Comments on: Adult fiction?

By: bennett

bennett — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:28:26 +0000

i just wrote the longest post and was rejected because i forgot to fill in my email address. justine, is it floating in your comment approval somewhere or is it gone for good?

By: jonathan

jonathan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:49:49 +0000

Adult fiction is anything not good enough to make it into junior or teen.

And along the lines of what other people have said, I’ve had a couple of strange looks when showing people around the library and say, “this is where we keep all the adult DVDs”

By: Mary Elizabeth S.

Mary Elizabeth S. — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:06:23 +0000

Nope, for the same reasons that I didn’t try to define YA. :]

~Mary

By: David S.

David S. — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:29 +0000

Anything published by Playboy or Penthouse. Adult fiction journals such as these are very popular amongst male YA readers too, go figure…

By: Camille

Camille — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:25:38 +0000

Uh… isn’t that generally the euphemism for porn? (I am not being facetious!)

If we’re talking the actual category and not the marketing lingo, “adult” fiction winds up being anything in the mainstream, the template from which all “genres” — YA, chick, fantasy/SF, Queer, action, romance — are deviations of some kind. (I don’t approve of this, but it is sort of… what happens.) “Literary fiction”?

I’ll stop abusing quotation marks now!

By: Gwenda

Gwenda — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:16:21 +0000

Stinky?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:48:28 +0000

I’m still trying to understand women’s fiction. Is it illegal for me to read it?

By: jennifer, aka literaticat

jennifer, aka literaticat — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:36:24 +0000

sucky and boring, mostly.

By: David Moles

David Moles — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:26:24 +0000

fiction focusing on the concerns of people over 25.

was that so hard?

(excludes most of what’s published as non-YA fiction, I admit, particularly in genre, but what can you do?)

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:06:20 +0000

Slightly off-topic Justine, but I'm curious- What do you think of this. P.S. I agree with jennifer, aka literaticat mostly, but I'm a teen, and haven't read huge amounts of Adult Fiction.