Forever was always the one everyone wanted to read as it had "naughty bits" as I remember rightly!! I haven't read a book of hers for years, but I read quite a lot as a teenager, and I do think they are good for introducing subjects like sex and puberty to a young audience. They are very american, which I didnt like (I'm from England), but for a teenage book they're not that bad. No ones worrying about the writing style when they're reading about sex for the first time :)
Ahahahahaha RALPH. That's awesome. I kind of want to read it now. xD I actually read a lot of Judy Blume books when I was a kid (though not Forever). I liked them alot back then, I'm curious if I'd have the same reaction now.
Yeah, Forever was sucky. I couldn't finish it. But I fully support Judy Blume in tackling these kinds of issues.
The other novels of hers that you mentioned I found no fault with. I give her major props and have nothing negative to say.
I also don't feel you can use it against her that the situations became outdated after thirty years. That's because thirty years have passed! She was writing slice-of-life to the time period, so of course things will have changed since then.
I read a lot of them when I was, I don't know, eight or ten or twelve or something. Slightly pre-pubescent, anyways. I really enjoyed them at that age, when I was looking forward to Growing Up and the like. Puberty turned out to NOT involve all my female friends bragging about who got their periods first, or doing weird arm exercises to make my breasts bigger (My mother tells me she did this when she was a girl, though? In gym? Weird!), but it was probably good to read about girls dealing with Issues and the like. I think possibly she was the only author I read who tackled those things, and there will always be crazy soccer moms who think that if their precious angels never read about sex they'll never have it or want it or find out about it. Incorrect!
I didn't read Forever (I don't think, anyways), but possibly the problem with Judy Blume is that she writes seventeen year old girls exactly the way she writes twelve year old ones, and maybe she should stick to the latter.
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The other novels of hers that you mentioned I found no fault with. I give her major props and have nothing negative to say.
I also don't feel you can use it against her that the situations became outdated after thirty years. That's because thirty years have passed! She was writing slice-of-life to the time period, so of course things will have changed since then.
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That'll do pig, that'll do
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I didn't read Forever (I don't think, anyways), but possibly the problem with Judy Blume is that she writes seventeen year old girls exactly the way she writes twelve year old ones, and maybe she should stick to the latter.
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