At fourteen I was reading mostly Harlequin Romances and whatever other romances I could find on mom's bookshelf that I wasn't supposed to be reading.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
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."
sj - Aug 05, 2008 8:47:37 am PDT #6796 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Connie Neil - Aug 05, 2008 8:48:56 am PDT #6797 of 28385
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At 14 I think I was starting at one end of the Andre Norton shelf in the library and digging in.
Polter-Cow - Aug 05, 2008 8:51:31 am PDT #6798 of 28385
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
At 14, I was probably still in my mystery kick, reading Mary Higgins Clark and E.W. Hildick, with a dash of fantasy like Edward Eager and E. Nesbit.
Jessica - Aug 05, 2008 8:53:10 am PDT #6799 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
14 is about 9th grade, right? That would put it right smack at the height of my Heinlein phase.
beth b - Aug 05, 2008 8:54:22 am PDT #6800 of 28385
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I couldn't tell you what I was reading at 14 -- I was still very indiscriminate. I suspect I would have like Twilight quite a bit, but at that age I had much more patience for reading along hoping something might happen. I brought home the second book from the library, but I never read it. may never read it.
flea - Aug 05, 2008 9:04:09 am PDT #6801 of 28385
information libertarian
At 14 I was still in mysteries - Christie, Marsh, Sayers. And slumming in Enid Blyton's boarding school novels. I think I read LOTR that year. And Sassy magazine.
Scrappy - Aug 05, 2008 9:07:24 am PDT #6802 of 28385
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
At 14 I was also still in mysteries. Also Once and Future King and a lot of Richard Brautigan and Vonnegut.
erikaj - Aug 05, 2008 9:26:53 am PDT #6803 of 28385
Always Anti-fascist!
not sure...there was a lot. maybe I would have liked Twilight, but I'd read enough of my mom's books that maybe all the hair and face touching might have seemed unsatisfying, even then. Nice paragraph, Hecubus. You're right. Very Barton Fink I think maybe my cops-and-robbers started at fourteen or fifteen.
DavidS - Aug 05, 2008 9:32:41 am PDT #6804 of 28385
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
At 14 I think I was still reading lots of Andre Norton from the library, but had outgrown all animal authors (Kjellgaard, Terhune, Payton et al.)
At the used bookstore I was buying lots and lots of old pulp fantasy, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Very Barton Fink
They should totally do a movie of West's life. His bio is very Coensesque.
erikaj - Aug 05, 2008 9:37:56 am PDT #6805 of 28385
Always Anti-fascist!
I was very amused when I found out that "O Brother..." goes back to "Sullivan's Travels".