Comments | supersyncspaz7: in which I'm feeling somewhat certain that I'm going to pass this class with flying colors.

supersyncspaz7

in which I'm feeling somewhat certain that I'm going to pass this class with flying colors.

Jan 14, 2012 14:29

Got the syllabus for the Young Adult Literature class I'm taking this semester. Here's the books we have to buy/read for the class:

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak
Anonymous. Go Ask Alice
Blume, Judy. Forever.
Cormier, The Chocolate War
Hinton, S. E. That Was Then, This is Now

books

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poinsley January 14 2012, 23:08:23 UTC

I really liked A Separate Peace, too. My dad had an old copy and I read it one summer for the heck of it.

particle_person January 15 2012, 05:23:43 UTC

The Go Ask Alice fraud (which I probably read about at the same time you did, BEINGS as I've known you that long...) makes me SO ANGRY. Stupid conservatives lying to kids. I always turn that book around on the shelf in bookstores.

particle_person January 15 2012, 05:53:04 UTC

I found Fade really disturbing with all the incest stuff and the thing with his aunt letting him fondle her boobs (TELL ME I DIDN'T IMAGINE THAT PART IN A YA BOOK). I think I didn't finish it.

I found Catcher to be as you said. I don't know how much longer it will be considered a classic after the boomers go.

la_petite_singe January 15 2012, 06:24:25 UTC

I did totally believe that Go Ask Alice was legit, but in my defense, I was pretty young. ;) Speak is excellent, though the movie's kinda not. My fifth-grade teacher read HP to us and I've been hooked ever since, but I'm way behind on a lot of the others--I've never read The Giver, somehow. O____o I hear it's gonna be a movie with Jeff Bridges, though, so I guess I'd better get on that. I didn't mind Catcher at the time, although it's hardly his best work, IMO, and I have no idea why it's everyone's ~fave.

particle_person January 15 2012, 07:04:01 UTC

There are some young people (under 35, say) who love Catcher, but the impression I get from my friends and people younger than I am (I'm 33) is that opinion is running against. It's not a book that speaks to more recent generations' experiences growing up in the way it did for the 60s kids.

chrryblssmninja January 15 2012, 09:07:49 UTC

I think I'm one of the few people who will admit to somewhat enjoying A Separate Peace. It's been years since I read it, but I liked it a lot when I was sixteen, because I could relate to Gene's weird, creepy jealousy about Finny. One of my friends in sophomore English and I would talk about how dreamy we thought Finny was, and she was absolutely like, "Do you think there's something else going on between them?"

people in my general lit class more or less liked the book (me included) but, while the TV? movie version really amps up those overtones, it's a bit too scattered to hold together as a good movie.