Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 15:02     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
The Outsiders
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 14:55     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe I am the first person to post The Fountainhead (or anything Rand). I was obsessed with it.

Also:
Steppenwolf
Franny and Zooey



Yes, Steppenwolf.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 14:55     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay. It is the one book I would recommend all teens read to understand human nature, markets, con artists, fads, evil, everything. It also reads like a tabloid of history.

The 12 Caesars by Suetonius. Twice the tabloid-y historical goodness of Mackay, Roman style.

And second Agatha Christie
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 14:51     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:-Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Unfortunately, it didn't help me increase my bust, no matter how much I tried. Also other Judy Blume books.
-various VC Andrews books- They gave me all sort of hormonal adolescent feels.


Oh, and basically any book aimed at middle grade readers about the Holocaust.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 14:50     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
-Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Unfortunately, it didn't help me increase my bust, no matter how much I tried. Also other Judy Blume books.
-various VC Andrews books- They gave me all sort of hormonal adolescent feels.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 14:50     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
The Cay
Number the Stars
The Fountainhead
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 14:42     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Has anyone mentioned Letters to Penthouse yet?
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 13:56     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Lord of the Flies and A Separate Peace. Who dies from a broken leg????
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 13:52     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Are you There God it's Me Margaret and most of the Judy Blume books - i don't know how these would impact me now other than triggering lots of childhood memories

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - this one would probably still get me. I haven't forgotten the impact it had on me as a 12 or 13 year old.




Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 13:41     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
I was obsessed with Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series. I re-read them recently and thought they were so flowery and silly!
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 13:37     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Kafir Boy by Mark Manthabane
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 13:07     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe I am the first person to post The Fountainhead (or anything Rand). I was obsessed with it.

Also:
Steppenwolf
Franny and Zooey



+1 for Howard Roark, that sexy beast
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 12:58     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
I cannot believe I am the first person to post The Fountainhead (or anything Rand). I was obsessed with it.

Also:
Steppenwolf
Franny and Zooey

Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 12:12     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Steppenwolf, Crime and Punishment, Hundred Years of Solitude.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 12:09     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Thus Spoke Zarathustra.