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  • I often get book recommendations that, upon following up, aren’t right for me. Even if you ban people from ever mentioning YA novels, people will recommend books to you that you don’t want to read.

    I generally think saying “I dislike this entire very broad category of books and won’t consider them at all” is a lazy way of choosing books to read. It’s a guarantee that you’ll miss out on some things you’d have really enjoyed and gotten a lot out of. And Red Rising is not YA, so you’re already applying that filter poorly.




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    2. Disabled

    3. Yes, both.

    4. I don’t think this is an opinion thing. Yes, factually. Language evolves, and in writing, it’s seen most in fictional narratives.

    5. Yes, but I believe it’s because technology gives us access to many more voices from many more places.

    6. I don’t see them as changes. Slang has long been used in fictional narratives. Many classic authors specifically reference cultural memes specifically because it makes their writing more accessible. Images in text certainly aren’t new. Are you familiar with illuminated manuscripts? Abbreviations aren’t new, either. One of the difficulties of interpreting very old works is not being familiar with the common abbreviations of the day. What we see today are just continuations of literary traditions, adapted to contemporary culture.