Anonymous
11/06/2014 19:32
Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Love Always, Blue
Anonymous
11/06/2014 19:25
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
The cat ate my gym suit
Anonymous
11/06/2014 19:23
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Crime and Punishment.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 19:20
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote: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.
Long before the musical, back in the '70s when Frye Boots were popular the first time around and disco was king, my entire 9th-grade English -- the good girls, the jocks, the brains, the wasted, the theater geeks, the mean girls, the AV guys, the stoner artists -- all of us -- were completely riveted by Les Miserables. The message I took from it was that refusing to grant forgiveness hurts the hard-hearted more than the transgressor.
My oldest son, a recent college graduate, was riveted by Gatsby in 11th-grade American Literature. When he told us that he was turning down a job at an investment bank to teach middle school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the US, he mentioned Gatsby. BTW, he majored in applied math. Anybody who says the humanities are dead is very much mistaken.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:47
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Bridge to Terebithia was intense for a little kid! Loved it. So sad.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:46
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:Roots, Anne of Green Gables, The Color Purple
Omg are you me?
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:41
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:The Cay
The Catcher in the Rye
The Bluest Eye (freshman in college, but still a teen)
+1000 Hope it never gets ruined by being made into a Hollywood movie.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:36
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
^^ "c" group again. Forgot about the color purple. Definitely that one.
And American Psycho but that was college.
And American Psycho but that was college.
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:35
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
The Cay
The Catcher in the Rye
The Bluest Eye (freshman in college, but still a teen)
The Catcher in the Rye
The Bluest Eye (freshman in college, but still a teen)
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:34
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Some of you folks were clearly in the "A" group for reading.
My list from the "C" group:
Catcher in the rye
Bridge to terabethia
Go ask Alice (whoa on that one!)
Diary of Ann frank
My list from the "C" group:
Catcher in the rye
Bridge to terabethia
Go ask Alice (whoa on that one!)
Diary of Ann frank
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:30
Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Outsiders
Just thinking the same, and then the movie. I just read Rob Lowe's book and it was a great insight into the movie.
I was also thinking of this book (stay gold Pony Boy) also:
Are you there God its me Margaret
The Far Pavillions
Anonymous
11/06/2014 18:26
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
On the road
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Howl
Lots of Poe
Cats cradle
Slaughterhouse five
Anne rice
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Howl
Lots of Poe
Cats cradle
Slaughterhouse five
Anne rice
Anonymous
11/06/2014 17:14
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:... Even thought, if you read read it now, you would probably find it unimpressive.
I'll start: Demian (Hermann Hesse).
The Once and Future King
Waiting for Godot
Anonymous
11/06/2014 16:49
Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Roots, Anne of Green Gables, The Color Purple
Anonymous
11/06/2014 16:46
Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:The Outsiders
Just thinking the same, and then the movie. I just read Rob Lowe's book and it was a great insight into the movie.