I am 20 in this mortal form, as for my actual age.... I am older than the very universe you are living on and still reading these novels!!
Am I too old to read light novels?
I know of one reader who's 47, so I think you should be alright XD
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OldTimeTea that is not appropriate imo. 15? sure...12? No...at 12 I was still playing innocent games like spyro and laughing at Scooby doo.... at 15 I was playing MMO's and laughing at porn videos where girls literally poop in front of other people and guys swing their oversized and unhealthy penis'.
As you can see one is not suitable for the other....imo webnovels have content children under 14 should not digest on a regular basis. There are clear themes which can produce unhealthy fantasies for children that age as they usually believe anything, though they will pretend they know it's not real deep down they still think it is or at least on a subconscious level they digest these themes as a norm to reality unknowingly. There are some clean webnovels out there but I haven't read a CN novel that is translated that is perfectly suitable to a 12 yr old. Right now the only webnovel I can think of that might be (and I say might cause I only read 14 volumes) suitable is Legendary Moonlight Sculptor which is KN.
33 yo, still reading.... hell even i read jun jiuling,hidden marriage etc etc. i enjoy the ride, even though lots of my friends give me a rolling eyes whenever they saw me read at office or at coffee house.
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Flaffy I started reading ebooks and in wattpad when I'm on my grade school. Just stepped on highschool and found xianxia copy on wattpad. (Wrote where the novel came from). Because I'm in love at first read, I immediately went there.(which is wuxia something globe..lol) I first read ATG then ISSTH then Coilling Dragon then Stellar Transformation then so on and so forth..
GUNS INDIRECTLY SHOT
ME: WHY?? WHY ME!!??
You're actually very young. I know a few semi-grandpas, 40-50s reading CN novels. It's a form of enjoyment, age doesn't matter dude.
If my mom (>47) can happily watch christmas TV series directed at children under 10, it's totally cool to read CN even when you're older than the average reader.
Armand_Targaryen One is never too old to read light novels.
Daoist_Eternal_Sky aha! Just stepped on highschool is 14 where I come from unless you get left back.
Anywho point is these novels imo most CN novels seem to be PG13 and no matter what i do not accept 12 yr old rwading its. PG is parental guidance they need to do their jobs right and not assume all fiction is for kids like many do.
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Cilliez You're confused. Porn is PG13 these days IMO. 12 yr olds should not be able to watch it without parental guidance called "Birds and the bees" talk not everyone has this talk but i feel like if half the teen moms these days had that talk they would be less inclined or at least more cautious and probably reach 19 before they get preggers.
Anyhow I am not saying light novels and web novels are bad I am just saying the threshold age is as such, just because they have double digits does not make them the same. I come from a time when people classified a 10-12 yr old as Tween and they are still in their in-between stage where their bodies first start changing and feelings of self awareness start to fully develop them, not exactly kids and not exactly teenagers. I do not want to see a a psycho born from these light novels cause some idiot parent thought any piece of fiction can be for any kid. As said in one of the threads before, it's not like these novels are labeled with the proper audience level. Don't get me wrong some kids are more mature than others, which is where the parental guidance comes in handy to know when your child can take these kinds of things and when they cannot, some parents just don't do that, instead rely on labels to tell them whether the child should be able to or not, other dont give 2 fks and yeah it's sad.
It wasn't until I was 15 that I could go on the internet without a proxy, and I thank my parents for that everyday cause there is alot of shiz out here on the internet that could have scarred a kid like me at 9 yrs old anxious to get online. One of which things was this link that still scares me to this day and I hope to god never to see it again, dude was beheading someone and it said that it was live feed...it had the current date and time stamp running...while he hacked the guys head off with a kitchen knife, it was bloody and I watched for 5 minutes until i cringed and closed the window. It was linked to me by a random weirdo on chatango btw, I was 17 and i was shook. Porn to me is normalized cause I live in america half the shiz on TV is borderline porn, though when it comes to murderous themes like that and "the strong bury the weak" you can end up with " Oh I want to be an underdog superhero" childish thought or "Oh I wanna step all over those I don't like cause I can and I'm strong, human life doesn't matter cause I'm strong" childish thought producing bullies who kill small animals in the woods.
It's just a cautious worry of mine celliez, I have more pessimistic thoughts about things like that.
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I understand but...
I think it also depends on the child too if the child at like 8 already acts like a 12-year-old in the amount of responsibility/maturity. And you trust the child to take the good in a novel, but ofc also watching them and their intake then it should be fine.
I get more nervous about Youtube these days, I found one of the kids watching pranks on Youtube about sex, I cut off their Youtube immediately and punished them for watching it even though they knew it wasn't right.
Now I watch everything like a hawk. Give too much leeway and they become too arrogant about their new found success.
I just believe that parents should be more concerned about what the kids are doing on their devices, no matter what. As long as a novel doesn't have murder and over arrogant tendencies, I'd be fine with letting a child read it.
Sadly none of the kids are interested in any of the offers I make. Welp. More for me, less for me to have to manage.
Meanwhile, the true mother is so flipping annoyingly laid back. I feel like I have to work doubly hard to make up for her... Your one kid turned out like a mess, you know. Maybe don't ruin the lives of your other kids too, pls?
God knows I wish someone would have told her to act more like a parent in limiting me what I found online...
But nah, America is way too sexualized... I started seeing porn around me when I was like 4...
Not kidding but I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and hear straight moans from the TV set. I'd be hiding behind the couch like, what's that woman doing naked on the teli? It didn't register in my mind, but I'm definitly a step or two off the right direction I would have taken if not for my uncle/grandfather living in the same house as me at the time.
Not to mention the porn mags in the bathroom I used to find and flip throughout of curiosity. Or the absurd numbers of condoms I'd find literally everywhere. Thankfully no open, used ones though, ew. Or the porn films, with proper porn covers, found in the car.... Like what?
My mind was made up after 10 years old that porn was a normal way of life. Only got to know it wasn't by 13, when I started to watch it myself when no one was home. And finally had like semi proper friends to ask.
But by then I was already fucked up. I try to keep myself away from that shit as much as possible but I used to watch/read daily porn for like 3-4 years or so.
THANKFULLY though. I kept my purity- mostly cause no one I knew was interested. But at least I was lucky enough to be spared!
I can make up for my lack of purity in my mind, with the purity in my body.
And I try to make it into a light hearted thing by using it as my form of humor instead of my form of life.
Works pretty okay...
I still feel pretty annoyed at my family though for not being more careful. But that's just how my family is. Not really caring all that much. So I try to work extra hard for the kids. Being a parent when I'm not a parent. Most of the times I'm not here talking, they're taking up my time. Or I'm reading. They have school anyways...
Only the most mature girl knows about sexual things, but because I've told her to watch the others and keep away from it all.
She's not even the oldest one though, just has a better more mature mentality, very protective...
But even still I have to watch out for her too.
Cilliez Yes yes! It can be hard out here without web novels as another source of misguidance for children imo! So I stick to my guns...PG 13!! To me 13 is an age that has the same as drinking age effect (it is the drinking age in some countries). You just cannot wait to be 13 cause you get to watch all the coolest movies now and probably always sneak into a R rated movie without someone checking twice. To me a child should be honored that I give them this threshold and keep them sheltered from the cruel world until their bodies can handle it, so that they can find other cool thresholds like drinking LOL and look forward to the next 8 years to feel completely free and cry about all the love everyone took just to keep shit away from you. They cared so much!
Cilliez uff... my friend, if you had an interesting childhood, but the good thing is that you came out normal and are still reading light novels :D, by the way, do you take care of the children? You are a teacher?
No, I'm a sister.
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Cilliez jejejejeje And your brothers do not like to read light novels, or do not you leave them?
Oop. I'm falling asleep. I'll answer after a nap~ x.x
Armand_Targaryen Technically as long your eyes can see, there is no such thing as too old.
Age is just a number, but then again money is also a number printed on wood.
GregLuck It's hard for me to spot sarcasm unless I can feel the direct irony of the statement. Especially on the internet, it gets very hard to discern sarcasm. People in real life say I have a voice that makes everything sound sarcastic, I have been compared to Daria, that cartoon that was on MTV, I watched it once and felt completely offended.
I like to think I'm the smooth in between of preppy and geek. You know theatre geeks and Glee fans (though I ditched glee after season 1 so not really a die hard fan). Though they could have said I'm like daria cause I'm a very animated person....eh.
Armand_Targaryen 26 here and still loving it! This Dog is faithful!
Flaffy This Dog was scarred by one of those videos as well. There is definitely some things on the internet that shouldn't be absorbed into anyone's mind let alone a child's mind
@ "This Dog"
@ "This Turkey"
So many animals on Qidian...
This Dog looks fluffy though... c:
Armand_Targaryen Actually, I don't really know the difference between light novels and normal novels. Is there any?
@Cilliez @TheDarkCrow @Daoist_Eternal_Sky @UnhingedTaboo
@Neverfire7 and all other fellow daoist,
hey i'm unable to connect to the "qidian stealing" thread because of an error or something, so does anyone else have this problem or is this just me?????. :(
alextrick https://forum.webnovel.com/d/1297-qidian-is-love-snowman-clan/19
Its deleted... use the newely made one!!
UnhingedTaboo thanks :)
but ahh........... all the post that we made its all gone.............. :(
alextrick HA! don't worry!! its not some treasure..... We have each other... we can do much better in the new thread!!
lol you not alone I Am 28. As long as you find interesting it should be okay
23! And I'll still be reading by the time I'm 70 (of I'm still alive). Hopefully I'll be able to read the raws by that time...
Armand_Targaryen yo bro, 27 here too!
Armand_Targaryen You are never too old to do anything. Life is pointless anyways, might as well do what you wanna do giving jack shit about what others may think...
Yo am 25 noting wrong with reading light novels
UnhingedTaboo I'll call you grandpa