brosephmcbrah: Pop Punk is the YA Lit of Music

bagof4grapes 10.12.15	Cool list concept. I mean, quite a lot of young adults seem to dig this stuff, including me sort of. I like 3-5 of these albums
Ryus 10.12.15	YA lit is possibly the worst shit ever
SharkTooth 10.12.15	so where would Brand New fit in the spectrum of YA literature?
Supercoolguy64 10.12.15	been interested in ellen hopkins stuff. her books, based on what ive read up about, seem super fucking sad
Cygnatti 10.12.15	make sense bc ya lit is like the only thing i can stand to read these days tbh
Snake. 10.12.15	Brand New isn't pop punk
Snake. 10.12.15	why are you so obsessed with me
alienobserver 10.12.15	he's just correcting a dumb comment fam
theBoneyKing 10.12.15	Only book I know here is Looking For Alaska but it's pretty good. But in general both pop punk and YA lit are shit so they definitely have that in common.
evilf0rd 10.12.15	more like poop punk agreed
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	I like 1 album (cttm) and 1 book (wallflower) o' this list. the same type of people listen to/read these genres looking for alaska is pretty much as bad as any other shit john green has put out, it's all try-hard bullshit
CaimanJesus 10.12.15	I didn't know LA lit was filled with pedophiles
Cygnatti 10.12.15	john green's ya stuff is pretty bleh tbh. also 9 is simultaneously really cool but also stupidly frustrating
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	from what i've read of Levithan i wasn't too impressed, but i never read his solo stuff, just those awful collabs he did
Cygnatti 10.12.15	the one one where the dude got his head attached to another dude's body was also simultaneously really cool but stupidly frustrating (FOR BASICALLY THE EXACT SAME REASON TOO!? WTFFFF). ^dude, what collabs we talkin' tho? i might've seen them myself.
SharkTooth 10.12.15	Last YA book I remember reading was 'Fat Kid Rules The World' it wasn't bad...
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	the one with john green and the one with rachel cohn, dash and lily's something or other I didn't realise he's done so many, shit
Cygnatti 10.12.15	book of dares? i think i saw that in the bookstore, might peep or something. ooh ooh, i read one where this guy was the kid of a world famous serial killer with all that angst and guilt and shit. was p cool imo.
Cygnatti 10.12.15	16 and 19 are prolific af but they seem like they're guaranteed to be god awful urgh
Calc 10.12.15	so its shallow and boring with lots of random emotions thrown in? not all pop punk is like that...
SharkTooth 10.12.15	James Patterson's stuff is generally awful
Cygnatti 10.12.15	at least 99% of it is. the only example i can think of that isn't is like saves the day - stay what you are.
Cygnatti 10.12.15	james patterson is like the pitbull of all literature. inserts himself where he's really not welcome, a diluted understanding of people (i'm mostly referring to his outlandishly stereotypical and melodramatic kid/teen/ya work) and even when he pulls of a decent concept or gimmick, he always finds countless ways to ruin it.
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	#notallpoppunk
SharkTooth 10.12.15	agreed hard I really hope nobody makes a movie out of his Maximum Ride/Daniel X books because my god do they suck hard
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	oh god I remember maximum ride, christ were they cringey
MyNameIsPencil 10.12.15	Simple Plan - J.R.R. Tolkien
Cygnatti 10.12.15	maximum ride has a manga/graphic novel now. the artwork is terrible tbh. like twilight graphic novel bad.
SharkTooth 10.12.15	I remember being 10 and reading the Alex Rider/Harry Potter books and checking out the first Maximum Ride book and thinking "oh my GOD this is awful" it was THAT bad
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	lmao Shark fight club went graphic novel too didn't it? haven't checked it yet
Cygnatti 10.12.15	yeah it was in the comics section at the bookstore the other day but ain't ever even seen the movie or the book so idk if wanna read it.
Cygnatti 10.12.15	harry potter is basically the godfather of the fantasy based branch of modern ya lit (the branch that really suuuuuucks).
SharkTooth 10.12.15	agreed
Cygnatti 10.12.15	nothing against harry potter tbh (i quite like the idea of it all), not what's her faces fault she inspired terrible fiction.
SharkTooth 10.12.15	too many copycats missing what made Harry Potter good to begin with
zakalwe 10.12.15	How's potter young adult? It's a fucking cracking read whatever your age but come on its blatant kid fodder.
Cygnatti 10.12.15	well, the first novels obviously (hence, the ones every knows about and always refer to), but not the last few.
Mort. 10.12.15	only YA i still enjoy is the chaos walking trilogy by patrick ness last YA i read was hunger games and it was shiiiiiiiiiit
SharkTooth 10.12.15	last few were definitely YA stuff
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	at least we grew up with the books, imagine a ten year old burning through those and he gets to the weird shit in deathly hollows
SharkTooth 10.12.15	"last YA i read was hunger games and it was shiiiiiiiiiit" yeah the 1st book was decent but it quickly went downhill after that
Cygnatti 10.12.15	still haven't read or watched any hunger gamez :x
SharkTooth 10.12.15	if you do ever get around to it check the first book, skip everything else
Mort. 10.12.15	"yeah the 1st book was decent but it quickly went downhill after that" agreed i remember the first being decent at least.
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	I remember not getting through the first 100 pages of hunger games
deathschool 10.12.15	18 is a great book. Don't know about the album.
SharkTooth 10.12.15	the last bad series I remember reading was The Maze Runner it had such a great concept yet the ending was complete shit, and the sequel was 100% shit
SharkTooth 10.12.15	"I remember not getting through the first 100 pages of hunger games" to be fair the book doesn't pick up until the 2nd half
DrMaximus 10.12.15	Abysmal genre :/
SharkTooth 10.12.15	it's the nu-metal of iiterature
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	I probably got distracted by something else, might've been that gone series by michael grant
deathschool 10.12.15	How though? The Hunger Games is one of the fastest paced and easily digestible books I've ever read. I'm pretty sure I read the first book in like a day and a half. I thought the second book was quality too, but the third one was pretty shit. Goddammit, commented too slow @shark in regards to The Hunger Games
SharkTooth 10.12.15	"I probably got distracted by something else, might've been that gone series by michael grant" oh THAT was a good series!
TheWrenKing 10.12.15	think pop punk suits it better, it's awful but in a comforting kind of way
zakalwe 10.12.15	In fairness I forgot 8yr olds now class themselves as opinionated, emotionally balanced, self serving well rounded individuals all getting their minds blown by Albert Camus and demanding to be part of a young persons union who hold sway with the voters and carry the voice of a generation to the policy makers.
LotusFlower 10.12.15	I only know and like two bands from this list books are for losers.
Cygnatti 10.12.15	gotta b real, getting through the first fuckin chapter of the fault in our stars was painful. but then i got to make out with a qt white girl bc of it later on so i guess it payed off.
SharkTooth 10.12.15	"How though? The Hunger Games is one of the fastest paced and easily digestible books I've ever read. I'm pretty sure I read the first book in like a day and a half. I thought the second book was quality too, but the third one was pretty shit" 1st book is great from start to finish imo, but I could see how someone wouldn' be interested in it, especially when you compare it to a series like GONE
zakalwe 10.12.15	How old was she 11?
LotusFlower 10.12.15	the writing in hunger games got progressively worse as it went on.
SharkTooth 10.12.15	my little brother loved The Fault in Our Stars so you could imagine his reaction when I showed him this picture http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Br5EJttCcAEkBFP.jpg
Cygnatti 10.12.15	zak dude, young adult, despite it's name, is of nothing to the esoteric musings of adult and coming-of-age literature of the first 75 % of the 20th century.
Cygnatti 10.12.15	"How old was she 11?" lol we were 17 then. qt basic white girls are still kinda qt.
zakalwe 10.12.15	I've just read the plot outline, what a load of shmaltzy drivel.
Cygnatti 10.12.15	oh it was, no doubt about that ._.
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	"How though? The Hunger Games is one of the fastest paced and easily digestible books I've ever read. I'm pretty sure I read the first book in like a day and a half. I thought the second book was quality too, but the third one was pretty shit" Agreed, the first two books were pretty quality, and quite enjoyable, but the last was just bland. Good thing they decided to split that one up into two movies.
SharkTooth 10.13.15	Anyone remember the shaky-cam from the first Hunger Games movie?
CaimanJesus 10.13.15	I try to not remember that movie
SharkTooth 10.13.15	it started out good but damn did that shaky cam get old fast lol
CaimanJesus 10.13.15	How many movies did they make?
SharkTooth 10.13.15	there will be 5 in total by the end of November(1 for the first book, 2 for the 2nd, and 2 for the 3rd)
CaimanJesus 10.13.15	Wow, they're really milking it
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	"Anyone remember the shaky-cam from the first Hunger Games movie?" Fucking yes, sucked so much. The cornucopia fight scene is supposed to be all the 12 year olds getting cut up but all you see is shaky sword slashes before Katniss runs away from it all and takes the cameras with her :/ Also I'm pretty sure there's only 4 movies, it's the last book they split in two
SharkTooth 10.13.15	idk I heard that the Catching Fire movie ended at the book's halfway point or something so I assumed it was a 2-parter(haven't actually seen that movie)
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	Nah it was the whole book, Mockingjay pt 1 was pretty boring though
SharkTooth 10.13.15	I figured, the book was only interesting at the uprising/war battle part, otherwise I dunno if anything actually happens in that book
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	Nah just some political bullshit and all the propaganda videos. It was visually pretty great but the storyline is just not strong enough to be split into two (individually overlong) movies imo.
Cygnatti 10.13.15	Shaky cam in maze runner was pretty bad in key moments of action too. Kinda felt purposefully lazy tbh.
SharkTooth 10.13.15	did the ending suck like it did with the book? From what I've read the movie is better than the book in that aspect
SharkTooth 10.13.15	and by suck I mean it's one of the worst endings I have ever read and was a severe letdown to the book's potential
Cygnatti 10.13.15	I can't quite remember the ending except that some kid dies, they get out but "it's only just begun!" And obvious set up to sequel is obscenely obvious.
SharkTooth 10.13.15	So the ending's as shit as it was in the book thanks for telling me btw don't check out the sequel, the book is much worse, so the movie will be bottom of the barrel
SharkTooth 10.13.15	[2] don't watch movies based off shit books
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	The ending of the first movie was pretty unsatisfying but I guess it has to be so there's interest in the second movie. By the way, having not read the book I wasn't expecting all the zombie stuff and I was actually pleasantly surprised by some of the grittiness and the darker scenes. I wasn't expecting a movie of its kind to be as raw as it was.
SharkTooth 10.13.15	the book had the kids battling spiked slug robots just so y'all know
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	Wow wtf?
Cygnatti 10.13.15	sach dude i'm poor af honestly not too interested in being an elitist in film or books i jus wanna have a good time ._.
Cygnatti 10.13.15	"spiked slug robots" wtf?
SharkTooth 10.13.15	"By the way, having not read the book I wasn't expecting all the zombie stuff and I was actually pleasantly surprised by some of the grittiness and the darker scenes. I wasn't expecting a movie of its kind to be as raw as it was." that's what made me so excited to read it honestly, the opening chapters are fantastic, and Dashner really knows how to construct a believable yet scary world out of a gigantic constantly transforming maze, but near the end the whole plot just takes all of that potential and throws it out the window by rushing the ending and hyping a sequel(and that sequel is shit)
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	"don't watch movies based off shit books" Or shit movies based off great books (fucking Eragon)
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	@Shark, the second half of my phrase I was actually talking about the sequel (the movie) I'd actually reccomend it, better than the first imo.
SharkTooth 10.13.15	that's a pleasant surprise tbh, the book had nothing going on in it whatsoever
Keyblade 10.13.15	speaking of slugs and ya lit, i've been watching that old animorphs series lately
Cygnatti 10.13.15	animorphs is a old time fav of my big bro. never got too into but i can haz appreciate
Keyblade 10.13.15	i wish i could get my hands on the books, it was some good shit. really dark too for its target audience damn
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	"that's a pleasant surprise tbh, the book had nothing going on in it whatsoever" It was basically a solid zombie movie for the middle part, I'd compare it a little bit to resident evil with the corporations and stuff too. But yeah they leave a guy with a gun to shoot himself when he gets infected which is pretty cool.
SharkTooth 10.13.15	I remember being in elementary school and looking at the covers thinking they were seriously cool shit
Cygnatti 10.13.15	This will be the official YA lit thread from hence forth. I'm at the store now and there's a book called "my little brony" omfg I'm soooo tempted.
Cygnatti 10.13.15	Omfg I didn't even see the album cover until now. It's so bad.
LotusFlower 10.13.15	http://www.amazon.com/My-Little-Brony-Unofficial-Friendship/dp/1634506766 u talking about this book?
Cygnatti 10.13.15	Can't see the pic but the title is right so I'm guessing yea
Mort. 10.13.15	"Or shit movies based off great books (fucking Eragon)" i will never get the love for that book, i thought it dragged on with nothing unique to it
ScuroFantasma 10.13.15	You've gotta read the whole series man, the first book is a little slow I suppose, but the remaining three are excellent, and if they had done the movie right it could've been the next LOTR imo.
Mort. 10.13.15	i remember really liking a good part of it, then getting tremendously bored and hating the ending, might give it another try one day when im next in the mood for that sort of thing
ScuroFantasma 10.14.15	Go for it man, I've read the series a few times (I really love it) and of the books I'd say the first is the least interesting (still really good though imo) but it definitley picks up from there.
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parksungjoon 04.18.22	You've gotta read the whole series man, the first book is a little slow I suppose, but the remaining three are excellent, and if they had done the movie right it could've been the next LOTR imo.
Snake. 04.18.22	i thought spinelli exclusively wrote children's books