Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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| A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It was assigned in an English class, and it sticks with me 27 years later. |
Anonymous
| PP here. I missed the part about finding it unimpressive now. I'm sure it would still hold up wonderfully. |
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Clan of the Cave Bear
Flowers in the Attic |
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Jane Eyre The Lord of the Rings Wuthering Heights Bleak House Little Dorrit The Turning of the Screw ...and every single Agatha Christie. (I lived in Europe; BTW it's normal to be more critical of beloved childhood books as adults, doesn't mean they are bad.) |
Anonymous
Me too. |
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Great question!!!
All of Judy Blume Where the Red Fern Grows The Girl in the Box Dicey's Diary |
Anonymous
| I think it was called The Velvet Room |
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No One Gets Out of Here Alive (Jim Morrison's biography and death from OD)
My Side of the Mountain Catcher in the Rye Love Story A Stitch in Time The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lord of the Rings |
Anonymous
| Oh, I forgot about A Ring of Endless Light. Yes to that one! And there was another I haven't read for years called Things Invisible to See that I read as a high school Freshman that really stuck with me. |
Anonymous
| OP here. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the fact that they might be unimpressive means they are bad - it just meant that, if you read them now, they would not leave the same mark they did when you read them during your teen years. |
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Nella Larsen's Passing and Quicksand. |
Anonymous
+3 Also, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry |
Anonymous
| I forgot! My Side of the Mountain. It was the first book I read all the way through. I tried to read it over when my kids got it and I was, meh. |
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Les Miserables totally informed my sense of social justice, which is an important part of my life and who I am.
I think I would still be as moved now, though, as I was then. |
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The Three Musketeers - picked it up at my grandparents because I was bored stiff and I was shocked to find a "classic" so readable and exciting
Anne of Green Gables was an earlier favorite |