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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7770941" data-attributes="member: 22779">If an author is predominantly read by teenagers, wouldn't that likely place that author in the YA bracket?  Whatever age bracket you generally place a work into is, by and large, determined by who actually reads the work.  So, pretending that Shakespeare or Melville is somehow an "adult" author, when adults almost never read them, and the only people who generally do read them are between 15 and 25, seems a bit off.  I mean, we apparently place comics as for kids because it's kids who read them right?  And the criticism is that people are somehow less "adult"  for reading kids stuff.Only thing is, most of the stuff that's "adult stuff" isn't read by adults either.  I mean, upthread, someone made a big deal that Kramer Vs Kramer was the top grossing movie of the year.  Sure.  one year out of the last hundred sees an "adult" movie on top.  Never minding the other 99 years where it was typical pop culture, big tent pole fodder.  Even the idea that "back in the day" you could take your kids to "adult" movies ignores a LOT of movies.  I'm not really sure I want a 10 year old watching Sam Peckinpaw movies after all.  But, I guess my point is, if adults aren't reading Shakespeare and kids are, then doesn't that place Shakespeare largely in the same reading bracket as comic books?  After all, it's not like kids can't understand Romeo and Juliet or get the nuances of A Merchant of Venice.  It's not like these are really all that subtle.</blockquote>

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