This could be from any age really. I remember reading lots of books like Harry Potter as a 4th grader to seem smart to the teachers looking at me but I didn’t understand any of it. When the big YA dystopian boom was happening, I read tons of terrible YA dystopias to seem cool but many of them frustrated me.
Nope. I spent my career reading technical standards and research papers. I was also on various committees authoring them. My pleasure reading has always been total trash to unwind from having to be 100% focused to fully comprehend technical writing. My wife’s library is literature and nonfiction. I’m proud of those 27 Matt Helm books or the 20-ish Dirk Pitt books. The only thing I’ve read in 2023 that wasn’t total trash was The Grapes of Wrath and that was a 1930s bestseller.
Hey I understand that. I have a collection of all World of Warcraft books (besides the ones that were entirely retconed from the lore) and I’ve read them all. Not really the most beautiful literature by most people’s standards and I defs hide the cover if I’m reading them on the bus or something but idk, I really love them. In the trash is treasure sometimes.