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Gnomic Utterances. These are traditional, and are set at the head of each section of the Guidebook. The reason for them is lost in the mists of History. They are culled by the Management from a mighty collection of wise sayings probably compiled by a SAGE—probably called Ka’a Orto’o—some centuries before the Tour begins. The Rule is that no Utterance has anything whatsoever to do with the section it precedes. Nor, of course, has it anything to do with Gnomes.
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Date: 2022-02-22 09:15 am (UTC)I don't know whether it says something about the genre or the time period or what that two of the three who came to my mind (MZB and Eddings) were child abusers (physical, not sexual abuse, in Eddings' case.)
that were marketed to adults but overwhelmingly read by kids and teens.
It's kind of swapped places now, hasn't it? Instead of teens reading adult books, it's adults continuing to read the YA category after they aged out of it, but one could make the argument that it's still the same category, just marketed differently.
I'm also seeing books that then were published as adult fiction now getting shelved as YA.
I mean, there are definite content differences/sensibilities (way more didactic/moralistic these days, imo), but is this about about changing sensibilities and greater policing of the same genre, or is it rather a case of one genre capturing the market that used to read another, separate genre? I'm honestly not sure.