I was past my historical romance (Victoria Holt mostly) phase.
Oh god, I read scary amounts of Victoria Holt when I was younger.
Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.
'Serenity'
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."
megan walker - Aug 06, 2008 11:04:08 am PDT #6838 of 28385
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Connie Neil - Aug 06, 2008 11:09:24 am PDT #6839 of 28385
brillig
I was also reading romantic mysteries by Jane Aiken Hodge, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, maybe some others.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 06, 2008 11:09:55 am PDT #6840 of 28385
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Oh god, I read scary amounts of Victoria Holt when I was younger.
Me, too.
I think 14 was Clan of the Cave Bear, many other Historical Roamances, Erica Jong (I don't know..., Finishing up the entire Agatha Christie collection, Rex Stout, other assorted old mysteries, re-reading Alcott (I think I encountered the Old Fashioned Girl here), maybe Austen, and The Outsiders. I am pretty sure it was past my Piers Anthony Period and before say Salinger, Plath, and other depressing novels of my high school years.
Barb - Aug 06, 2008 11:15:42 am PDT #6841 of 28385
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, and the adult Judy Blume books. I got WIFEY confiscated so many times...
And am I wrong in thinking that there's there's no way this book would've ever scored a USA Today feature story if it had been written by a woman?
Not that I'm bitter or anything...
Calli - Aug 06, 2008 11:41:29 am PDT #6842 of 28385
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
At 14 I was vacillating between various Authurian books (Stewart's Merlin series and etc.) and working my way through my dad's collection of Analog Science Fiction magazines. I think I also got into Douglas Adams around then.
I've just started Twilight, and I'm finding it loads of fun. I disagree with the protagonist about everything so far, down to climate issues, but it's enjoyable in a bad-book-for-the-beach kinda way.
Ginger - Aug 06, 2008 11:53:28 am PDT #6843 of 28385
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The trick is having it dubbed a "love story" rather than a "romance."
I am reminded that around 14-16 were the years of the Very Long Book, including LotR and Michener. I generally don't tackle books larger than my head these days, but back they it was "Oh, boy! It will last longer." I also read a lot of spy books, because of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and I had a terrible crush on Simon Templar.
Scrappy - Aug 06, 2008 12:08:23 pm PDT #6844 of 28385
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ginger--do you check your profile email on a regular basis, perchance?
Ginger - Aug 06, 2008 12:22:46 pm PDT #6845 of 28385
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I do, Scrappy.
Gadget_Girl - Aug 06, 2008 12:47:51 pm PDT #6846 of 28385
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
At 14 I remember already being enamored with gothic fiction and 19th century literature in general, Sci-Fi, some historical romances, the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space trilogy as well as Young Miss or Tiger Beat magazines.
Strix - Aug 06, 2008 12:51:33 pm PDT #6847 of 28385
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
a copy of Meredith Pierce's Darkangel,
Oh! Yes, I read it obsessively!! And I quite agree; I read the sequel (I guess the 2nd book) and it was fine, but not as wonderful as #1. I don't think I ever read #3. Oh, I'm going to have to find that and re-read it, Fay. I haven't thought about it in YONKS.
I think at 14, I too was reading Auel...I think the first three books were out by 1986? and tons of Silhouette Desires, historical roms (I remember Bertrice Small and Constance O'Banyon and Johanna Linsdey were faves, although my sister and I can STILL crack each other up by injecting the phrases "Conn, Conn, stuff me till I burst!" and "Take me like the stallion takes my mare" from Small, which originated at roughly that time. Heh. "Conn..." Heh.
I have to leave a voice mail for my sister right now.
Also, I think I stole "Gone with the Wind" from the scholl lib at that age -- I still have it, along with Grimm's Fairy Tales, a ginormous unbowderlized version (I'ma go to hell.
Stephen King, esp. "It" which came out about then. Also, I remember I wrote a short horror story called "Harvest Moon" for frosh English which the teacher made me read aloud to the class.