How do we feel about Ponyboy?
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Jun 21, 2009 1:31:23 pm PDT #9279 of 28404
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Barb - Jun 21, 2009 1:33:25 pm PDT #9280 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
Written by a girl.
Hil R. - Jun 21, 2009 1:34:28 pm PDT #9281 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I didn't. Not that I posit myself as the norm, and I am fairly socially backward. But still. At age 8 I was pretty much "Jump rope, yay!", not "The world is full of people who are presenting themselves falsely in order to gain respect, money, sex, or drugs. Shame on them."
Heh. At age five, I could have told you that Ollie North was a liar. I'm not sure I would have understood exactly what he lied about, but I did know that the man on TV in the fancy uniform that everyone seemed to respect was a liar. A few years later, I was watching the news each evening, and knew all about Gary Hart.
Perhaps I was an overly cynical kid. But it seems like people pretending to be something they're not is a pretty big theme in kids books from the seventies -- Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great comes to mind immediately, but also several of the minor characters in the Ramona books, and probably a bunch of others that I can't think of right now.
Hil R. - Jun 21, 2009 1:36:43 pm PDT #9282 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I didn't read Watership Down until a few years ago, and I was probably in the totally wrong frame of mind for it, because my reaction was mostly "Bunnies shouldn't be this depressing!"
DavidS - Jun 21, 2009 1:40:12 pm PDT #9283 of 28404
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How do we feel about Ponyboy?
Emmett read The Outsiders for school this year and LOVED it. One of his favorite books.
P.M. Marc - Jun 21, 2009 1:44:09 pm PDT #9284 of 28404
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
There is, also, I think very distinct break in those who graduated from high school in the early nineties and before and those in the late nineties. As a 1991 graduate, I would almost say the movie Heathers was fairly representative of my high school experience. Later in the nineties, it almost seemed that what was once the ultimate in "uncool" became "cool". This may also be why hipsters seem to dress like the boys whose mother's dressed them to go to school in 1988.
Fucking SubPop! I blame them! Have since '91.
Though (class of '92), my high school experience was not very Heathers-like. Middle school, yes. High school, no.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 21, 2009 1:51:58 pm PDT #9285 of 28404
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think it would be interesting (although more in the movies thread) to compare and contract Mean Girls and Heathers as sort of the quintessential high achool experience.
Which, I think Plei is right, really translates onto middle school more than High School now that I think about it.
I am glad to hear Emmett liked The Outsiders, as it was one of my favorites.
Amy - Jun 21, 2009 1:54:08 pm PDT #9286 of 28404
Because books.
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Then again, I hung around with the stoners a lot of the time, so.
Hil R. - Jun 21, 2009 1:56:08 pm PDT #9287 of 28404
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Then again, I hung around with the stoners a lot of the time, so.
In my school, the stoners were a clique. And they didn't want me.
When I was in middle school, the movie that I thought best summed up the experience was Welcome to the Dollhouse. I'm not sure I'd say the same thing now, but at the time, that was the movie that felt the most like what I thought middle school felt like.
Barb - Jun 21, 2009 1:57:37 pm PDT #9288 of 28404
“Not dead yet!”
My high school experience (class of '85) included cliques, but only in a really mild way. There was no outright malice that I remember.
Breakfast Club.
I'm also class of '85.