World is Doomed! Teens Read Trash, News at 11.

This summer, Salon featured an articleÂwherein an adult reader takes to task other adults who like books written for young readers. This caused a spinoff furor that included the time-honored cane thumping about the garbage teens are reading, and how Civilization Is Doomed because of the young generation’s taste for trash.

That sort of condemnation is sometimes aimed at this or that popular series (Hunger Games, Divergent), and sometimes a blanket condemnation. I usually skip such fulmination...