Anonymous
Post 11/07/2014 08:28     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Atlas Shrugged is the only book I can remember where I was blown away, but I'm going to think about this for a while and post back. It's an interesting question, OP.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2014 07:53     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Pretty much all of Nancy Drew. Slightly cringe-worthy.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 23:41     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
I had a mix of high and low stuff. I was a voracious reader and just devoured everything I could get my hands on... I was reading out of context at the time, everything from John Cheever to Saul Bellow to Erica Jong. I didn't know if it was crap or literature/in or out of the canon at the time. I just wanted to read.

So here is my list:

Tiger Eyes

Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly (insipid title but actually a really beautiful love story written in the 1940s)

Portnoy's Complaint

Jane Eyre

The Bell Jar

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

And of course, The Catcher in the Rye
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 23:17     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Siddartha
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 23:04     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues


Yes! I had a long affair with Tom Robbins. Although I liked skinny legs and all a little more than even cowgirls get the blues.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 20:49     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:The cat ate my gym suit


Wow. I loved that book too but haven't thought of it in years!

Also:
The Outsiders
The Are You There God It's Me Margaret
The Summer Before
Herman Hesse's Demian, even though I mainly read it because the boy I had a crush on was really into it.
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 20:43     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Later in adolescence, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 20:41     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
The Hite Report
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 20:40     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Slaughterhouse Five
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 20:40     Subject: Re:Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Illusions, by Richard Bach
The Outsiders

I never saw the movie because I didn't want it to mess up the vision of the characters that I had in my head. Looking back I'm sure that was the right call. I think I would have hated everyone who was in the movie (except maybe -- maybe -- Matt Dillon).
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 20:00     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Flowers in the Attic
The Thornbirds
Forever
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 19:55     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Aesop's Fables
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 19:54     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Oh yes - Judy Blume!

I also liked all the S.E. Hinton books.

(Yes, I am dating myself!)
Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 19:51     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Tiger Eyes
A Wrinkle in Time
Ender's Game(I know the movie is recent, book is from the 80s!)
Les Jeux sont faits
The master & margarita

Anonymous
Post 11/06/2014 19:35     Subject: Name a book that had a big impact on you during your adolescence
Anonymous wrote:Are you there God - its me Margaret.



Same here!