What happened to the adventure books for boys and men that used to be so prevalent once upon a time? Did they get replaced by other media? Pushed out by female domination? Dropped by big companies for all the typical political reasons?
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I'm trying to think of examples, are you talking about things like Moby Dick, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and such I assume? I read an absolute ton as a kid 30 years ago and while I read a lot of that stuff, I can't think of much like that I read that even came out in my own era. Some Star Wars books maybe, does that count?
My oldest nephew reads quite a bit. I'm not sure what we will read when he moves out of like elementary school age books. Manga wouldn't surprise me. I can't see him reading old adventure stuff. I can also say if he was allowed to use his iPad whenever he wanted he'd never leave it alone and never read anything that wasn't on it's screen. So take away the parental control and he wouldn't read a thing, and to me it looks like parents being parents is not all that common anymore.
Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy (to a lesser extent) would very much count…
And anyone similar to that, as unfortunately both of those two are dead, and haven’t really been followed by anyone of quite the same “standard”, at least, as yet…
Clive Cussler is great, though. His son sometimes wrote part of each of his novels - he must still be around.
Oh, and Matthew Reilly, but I wouldn’t consider him to be quite on the same “level”. But he’s good, too.