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!"
Angel: You're lying. Gwen: I'm fibbing. It's lying, only classier.
'Just Rewards (2)'
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."
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
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.
Glamcookie - Jun 21, 2009 2:00:13 pm PDT #9289 of 28404
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I was class of '88 and I see Heathers and Breakfast Club as decent representations. I was friends with people across cliques, but wasn't really in a clique myself. So, not nerdly but also not super cool.
Catcher in the Rye made me think of King Dork again. Loved that book!
Amy - Jun 21, 2009 2:00:45 pm PDT #9290 of 28404
Because books.
In my school, the stoners were a clique. And they didn't want me.
What I meant was, maybe I didn't notice. What with the being stoned. But that was largely facetious.
There was a *lot* of crossover in my school, between dating and academics. Stoners who were on the paper, jocks who were mathletes, etc. I'm sure, as in any school, there were kids who felt left out and otherwise *outsider* but I am serious when I say, there wasn't any outright cruelty, and it was a fairly small school, so it would have been hard to miss. Which, essentially, just made high school a nice experience for *me*.
Anne W. - Jun 21, 2009 2:03:53 pm PDT #9291 of 28404
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
We had cliques at my high school, but no malice that I can recall. It was a small enough school that there was heavy overlap between the different sets and more than a few guys who agonized over being on the football team vs. being in the school musical.
Phineas, though? Didn't get tossed off the branch soon enough.
My sister!