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This is me every time I recommend Bone by Jeff Smith. It's a kid-friendly book but I'll be damned if it isn't a lovely 1000+ page adventure anyone can enjoy

You are reading the wrong adult books if that is your take away from it.

I recently read Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books, really interesting in that first half are kids lit and the second half were written 30 years later for a grown audience.

Best of both worlds! Though I did find the kids books way more fun.

Sounds like someone is shaming people who like adult books, rather.

I like the take that science fiction and fantasy is just a better form of fiction because you could take literally any fiction story about a mopey 30 year old who has to take care of their sick parent and a science fiction story has the potential to write an equally compelling story except this time there's a killer robot on the loose or they're on Mars or something.

All good stories are human stories, even science fiction. There's nothing inherently better about setting your story in the "real world".

Wasn’t Animal Farm marketed and widely believed to be a “kids” book??

This is why I read genre fiction rather than literary fiction. Sure, you and your book club can look down on me but until you're reading a book that isn't a variation on a theme of "unsuccessful professional moves back to coastal small town to look after their mother who has dementia", yous can all get to fuck.

I read mostly three things: fanfics mostly on My Little Pony, literature for degree and scientific papers(mostly unrelated to degree).

Alice in Sunderland. Wonderful "adult" comic novel. Seriously the thing is between 200-400 pages. Neil Gaiman illustrated it, and Bryan Talbot wrote it.

I learned more about British history, as an American, from that book, than I did in my university level history classes.

Stop shaming people about reading kids' books.

The kids can have those books back when you're done and not one minute sooner.

What about historical nonfiction?

I have no shame for enjoying the entire Rick Riordan Olympian / Norse / Roman series. But I did have "reading to kid before bed" as an excuse.

My favorite romances definitely have happy people having affairs.

The adults. By a lot.

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, 'To die will be an awfully big adventure.'

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Kids' books are rad.

I'm an adult and proud that I don't read this nonsense anymore. But what is the book where there is a magic tree house ? just so that I don't read it mistakenly

You want a sad book? Mr. Frumble, from that same worm driving an apple book, is a tragic character. In a single day the poor guy has tragedy after tragedy, probably costing him millions, and making him hated by his entire community. There's no relief. There's no mercy. His life is chaos.