Poll

Oh my gosh I want to vote for pretty much all but one or two of these. How can I decide??

The Princess Bride, because I already own it. :D

Pat wrote: "Seriously? Can we get some novels that have been written in the last 10-15 years most f these are 60+ plus old, they appeal to adults but it's not what young adults read. The outsiders is the most ..."

Pat I read half of these when I was in my early teens so they do appeal to young adults, maybe not to you but they are worth reading. Don't put your reading tastes onto everyone else please just read something else if you don't like the book that's chosen.

I actually am pretty happy that we will be reading a more classic book this month. I'm always telling myself that I need to read more, but they are so intimidating. I think it will be nice to have a group read for one to help push me along. Usually we do read more current YA books, but I'm okay with switching it up one month out of the twelve...

Wow...I wasn't going to say anything, but this just makes me so so sad. I was reading classics when I was 14 and loving them, and now I'm 18 and still lovin them. I think it's perfectly fair for there to be ONE month out of years and years that this group has been around that has classic novels (which many many young adults DO like!). Especially since (and I may be wrong now, but at least this is how they used to do it) the books are chosen randomly from a list that group members add suggestions to.

I'm not trying to fight anybody or anything, I do see the point that one of you was making about kids being forced to read this type of thing when they don't even like reading, but honestly...this isn't school. This is a voluntary online book club for people who do like reading and want to be able to discuss books with other people. So let us just have this one month out of the year to enjoy some classic discussion, okay? Please? :)

Harry wrote: "Good point Megan, sorry if I offended anyone,"

That's okay. I just needed to get that off my back, heh heh.

wow so because I read them when I was a teenager I'm ancient and there was no internet??? I'm 23 ... we definitely had internet and I was reading Artemis Fowl and Harry Potter alongside Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre. I love classics and modern YA and I encourage trying new things. Also I totally agree with Megan that this isn't mandatory. It's not like you don't like reading or you wouldn't be in a bookclub so if you choose to read the book that's chosen awesome if not that's cool too it's nice for those of us who enjoy these books to talk about them.

Love this:) It gets me to finally pick up and read one of the classics off my list:) It may not be the one chosen for the group as a whole, but I will be reading one. Thanks much!

Have you actually participated in any of the group reads? No I didn't think so. Most book club picks are modern and this month we are doing a classic. You can easily just skip March's group read. I am shocked and saddened at the comments in this thread. Maybe if you participate in a group read you would see that we don't just read old fogie books. Kim and I work hard at this group so trashing it is fun isn't it?

Pat wrote: "Seriously? Can we get some novels that have been written in the last 10-15 years most f these are 60+ plus old, they appeal to adults but it's not what young adults read. The outsiders is the most ..."
Holy shit reading that made my IQ drop 10 points.

Wow these are great books! I am excited, I have never read some of these and it is going to be fun to do so!

To stand up for the "old people" who made this poll (who are not much older than us mind you), classics are perfectly fine works to read that maybe if you were a little more mature and gave them a chance you could appreciate. I love contemporary YA, don't get me wrong, but the two genres both have things that makes them great and valuable. Please don't further the stereotype that teens are intolerant and selfish because that is exactly what you are proving by being so narrow minded as to think that only recent YA can be considered good or not boring. Also, I don't see any of you moderating the group, there wouldn't be one without our awesome mods, so stop complaining and start being positive people.

I can agree with both sides of this argument, I have read 3 or 4 of the books above, but I did not realize I was "old". Anyway as an avid reader, I will read anything, my nose was always in a book, I agree that many young adults don't want to read many of the classics, I hated Shakespeare until I had to read Hamlet, then I started to appreciate his work, I've read Poe, and Dickens. I appreciate some of their work but not all, my sister hates reading, does not matter if it was written 200 years ago or last week, if it's a classic, YA, or smut, she will not pick up a book to read for enjoyment. But that's the point right reading should be for ones enjoyment. That being said I have a 9 year old who loves Tolkien and I'm pretty sure that the Hobbit was written in the 30s, but he also loves Spiderwick and Percey Jackson books. I prefer YA and tend to gravitate toward YA, I don't want to read any of these books this month, so I just did not vote, I'll participate next month. As it's not mandatory, maybe in future we could do 2 books one classic and one written in the last 20 years, but that's not for me to decide its for the moderators who keep this group running. Just my 2 cents, I hope I have not offended anyone.

Really interesting discussion. It's so great that the subject arouses so much passion!