Teen Literature and its Psuedo-reality

Have recently finished Go Ask Alice. Didn't particularly care for it. I usually like a slightly different view of the world, but something about it made it seem like all of the other mass produced teen literature that is turned out. It didn't jump out as anything special.

There's something serously lacking in teen fiction...like reality (mind you, ...Alice supposedly isn't fiction"). It all feels a little too Hallmark. Like someone tried too hard to make it real. They fell short and ended up with some mindless trash. But it sells. I suppose that's all that matters. Mind you, some of the more contemporary classic teen fiction can be good. Catcher in the Rye was genius. So was A Separate Peace. And a more modern under publicized book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Those aren't too bad. But all of this Lulene McDaniels crap isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Variation is the key to a good author. These teen romances have no originality whatsoever.

To walking the beaten path into a swamp,
Kristene