By the time I was 15 I was pretty much on a diet of straight SFF.
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
Xander ,'Lessons'
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 11:41:43 am PDT #12653 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ 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
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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).
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 1:19:47 pm PDT #12660 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't believe I was soaking myself in more teen Americana than you guys were, and I wasn't even living here. But you read what you can get when you're summering in someone else's house.
Hil R. - Oct 20, 2010 2:06:48 pm PDT #12661 of 28293
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I read tons of Sweet Valley High. This even included Sweet Valley Saga, the series that traced their family through American history. There were flappers, and people in the San Francisco earthquake, and bootleggers, and some pioneers, and I don't remember who else. Probably some WWII stories. And their mother's ancestors and their father's ancestors kept meeting and falling in love and then being driven apart by tragic fate, until finally, their mother and father met at Berkeley in the sixties, or something like that.
I also had the Sweet Valley High board game.
Kathy A - Oct 20, 2010 2:52:01 pm PDT #12662 of 28293
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
By 11 years old, I was reading Rosemary Rogers, then my aunt loaned me a bunch of her Barbara Cartlands and Harlequins (Janet Dailey and Charlotte Lamb were the most memorable of that batch). By 12, I was reading Stephen King and books for the school's Book Club, including TKaM and Michener. By 13, when I was finally earning my own cash via babysitting, I was buying my own Silhouette Desires (a lot spicier than my aunt's romances), when I first read Elizabeth Lowell and Sandra Brown.