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This makes me want to go back and read "David and Lisa" and "Inside...

... Daisy Clover". I think I went through all of these around 1967. Time for a re-visit for me.

posted by blogflogger on April 4, 2006 at 5:35 PM | link to this | reply

Brettnik--- On occasion, I might admit to the former two, but never

the latter!

posted by Jazwolf on April 4, 2006 at 5:22 PM | link to this | reply

Thanks Jazwolf. Mean obsessive and incorrect teacher trained me in that...

posted by brettnik on April 4, 2006 at 9:32 AM | link to this | reply

Brettnik--- J.D. is another whom I wish had written more. By

the way, a little editing here: I don't believe that "Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters" had a question mark in the title. Thus, it should go outside the quotation marks.

posted by Jazwolf on April 4, 2006 at 9:27 AM | link to this | reply

avent-garde

I agree wholeheartedly.  Once the book THE POWER OF ONE (terrible movie, though) pulled me through a rough time.  I was so sad when I left that character, I cried.

posted by brettnik on April 4, 2006 at 7:35 AM | link to this | reply

brettnik

I think we are guided to the right book at the right time for ourselves. This has happened to me many times in the past. I have over 1,000 books here.

posted by avant-garde on April 4, 2006 at 4:46 AM | link to this | reply

If it's been banned in Boston, that's got to be good for sales, huh?

posted by Blanche. on April 3, 2006 at 8:05 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche

so true...so true
I guess the thing I love is that as a teacher I get to teach banned books.  Sometimes you can just look up banned books to find the really good juvenile lit that's been out there in the past 50 years.  Harry Potter is now banned (sorcery) and I'm sure there's plenty of other things school boards around the country have taken off their shelves.

posted by brettnik on April 3, 2006 at 8:02 PM | link to this | reply

Shocking, Brettnik, we can't 'have literature actually talking about

something that really exists, can we?  After all, if we talk about it, it surely "puts ideas in people's heads" (as if those ideas weren't there, already). 

posted by Blanche. on April 3, 2006 at 7:58 PM | link to this | reply

una

Thanks for the compliment.  John Brett's novel was just sooooo funny.  Not deep stuff at all, just hilarious with a great narrator's voice, which I love when done well.

posted by brettnik on April 3, 2006 at 7:58 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche

a Separate Peace---gay overtones
Cider House Rules----abortion

posted by brettnik on April 3, 2006 at 7:57 PM | link to this | reply

This is a well-written prose.

I haven't heard of the book you bought. But  I've read quite a few of Agatha Christie's. I prefer her to Conan Doyle.

Your comment on John Brett is real funny. How I wish I could be as successful as he is in capturing your mind and heart.

posted by una01 on April 3, 2006 at 7:11 PM | link to this | reply

Cider House Rules and A Separate Peace were banned, Brettnik?

I never knew that.  I suppose Cider House Rules because it dealt sympathetically with abortion. Sigh. 

I thought Salinger's signature novel, Catcher In the Rye, practically invented angst.

posted by Blanche. on April 3, 2006 at 5:04 PM | link to this | reply

Blanche_DuBois

You know, Blanche, the interesting thing about the first book to me was that my mom loved it.  It was a really old copy and I loved the story of the clever kids (kinda a family of wiz kids on the radio who could answer any question you wanted).  Seymour had some angst, but not much, and Franny and Zooey were very benign.  I really enjoyed the voice Salinger used to narrate these books.  I never really got into Salinger's other stuff, which I guess is weird since I like Cider House Rules and A Separate Peace and all that lovely angsty once-banned literature.

posted by brettnik on April 3, 2006 at 4:59 PM | link to this | reply

Brettnik,

Can you believe that I've never read either of these, Brettnik.  How is it going back and re-visiting J.D. Salinger?  He practically invented teen angst.

posted by Blanche. on April 3, 2006 at 3:17 PM | link to this | reply

Sannhet

Absolutely!!!

posted by brettnik on April 3, 2006 at 2:45 PM | link to this | reply

Brettnik -

Isn't it great to find a friend to escape with for a few hours, away from this reality and into another?

posted by sannhet on April 3, 2006 at 2:40 PM | link to this | reply