Anonymous
11/06/2014 11:33
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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
Anne of Green Gables was an earlier favorite
Anonymous
11/06/2014 11:05
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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.
I think I would still be as moved now, though, as I was then.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 10:16
Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 10:12
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Are you there God - its me Margaret.
Me too.
+3
Also, Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Anonymous
11/06/2014 10:11
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Nella Larsen's Passing and Quicksand.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 10:09
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 10:09
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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
11/06/2014 10:06
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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
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
11/06/2014 09:57
Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
I think it was called The Velvet Room
Anonymous
11/06/2014 09:55
Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Great question!!!
All of Judy Blume
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Girl in the Box
Dicey's Diary
All of Judy Blume
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Girl in the Box
Dicey's Diary
Anonymous
11/06/2014 09:54
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:Are you there God - its me Margaret.
Me too.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 09:53
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
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
11/06/2014 09:52
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Clan of the Cave Bear
Flowers in the Attic
Flowers in the Attic
Anonymous
11/06/2014 09:51
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
PP here. I missed the part about finding it unimpressive now. I'm sure it would still hold up wonderfully.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 09:50
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. It was assigned in an English class, and it sticks with me 27 years later.