Midlife Crisis in Literature

A blogger explains why he reads so much Young Adult literature:

YA almost never features 45-year-old men from Brooklyn having mid-life crises. This has been done to death, and I have no interest in reading it.

Oh, yes. This is the kind of books and movies that I can’t stand either. Contemporary European literature is obsessed with 45-year-old women in the throes of a mid-life crisis and contemporary US literature has the same unhealthy obsession with men going through their version of it. I don’t think one can even experience a midlife crisis any more without feeling like a plagiarist of the worst caliber.

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Poor 45 year old women

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bloggerclarissa says:

August 28, 2013 at 19:46

This is supposed to be the best age for a woman. Not for a man, though.

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1. musteryou says:
  
  August 28, 2013 at 19:53
  
  Oh, it definitely the best age for me. Really good.
  
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