I think the only series I read beforde high school was The Black Stallion. Oh and Narnia... Black Cauldron... OK I read a few.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:33:14 am PDT #12650 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:33:59 am PDT #12651 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I read VC Andrews in 7th grade. And one girl brought a Sidney Sheldon book to camp and would read the steamier passages to us at bedtime.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:39:04 am PDT #12652 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll be 42 in January. Holy crap.
Same here. They started publishing in 84, so we were 15. Totally in the sweet spot (NPI). I was reading up, down, left, right and centre. Whatever I could get my hands on. I read Emmanuelle at the same time I was reading Nancy Drew, and years before SVH.
Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:41:43 am PDT #12653 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
By the time I was 15 I was pretty much on a diet of straight SFF.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:43:20 am PDT #12654 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Wakefields are aliens. Don't doubt that.
brenda m - Oct 20, 2010 11:44:42 am PDT #12655 of 28293
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm 40 next week (eep) and they definitely weren't on my radar until I was past the age range (even if I had been reading appropriately to my age range).
Calli - Oct 20, 2010 11:46:42 am PDT #12656 of 28293
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
By the time I was 15 I was pretty much on a diet of straight SFF.
Yeah, when the Sweet Valley High books were big I was reading about wars and group marriages in Heinlein books. (43, as of yesterday)
ehab - Oct 20, 2010 11:55:33 am PDT #12657 of 28293
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
I'm 43 and I completely missed them. I feel old and square for loving and holding dear my Trixie Belden series, with a side of the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Hardy Boys.
I also ready all the Perry Mason and Dorothy Sayers books voraciously.
Connie Neil - Oct 20, 2010 12:16:04 pm PDT #12658 of 28293
brillig
Dana Girls Mysteries. I should try to find editions of the ones available when I was a kid, because they're a series that gets rewritten for each generation. Oh, how I wanted a spiffy roadster.
megan walker - Oct 20, 2010 1:15:48 pm PDT #12659 of 28293
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I was reading Agatha Christie and books with sex in them.
I totally read this wrong.
Never heard of Sweet Valley High, but definitely read most of the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Encyclopedia Brown books.
Bizarrely, Flowers and the Attic et al came up during my last book salon (Russian authors).