I just remembered why I love it.
I love it because of the narrative structure. I dig that the story comes together from various people's accounts, and sometimes there are nested narratives, and it's just good times.
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
Oz ,'First Date'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Dec 04, 2009 11:02:23 am PST #23018 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Burrell - Dec 04, 2009 11:03:23 am PST #23019 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I read The Happy Hooker when I was about 10. It was passed around school. On later reflection, I was probably a bit young for it.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 04, 2009 11:04:18 am PST #23020 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
The only book my mom ever banned me from reading was Forever. Of course, one of my junior high friends had a copy and it went through our entire group within a few weeks.
Ahahahaha! Yes, I remember this early adolescent milestone.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2009 11:05:39 am PST #23021 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When I was in middle school, the book being passed around was It (Stephen King). I had a few passages read aloud to me and it was enough to turn me off ever reading the whole thing.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2009 11:05:42 am PST #23022 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The only "scandalous book that lots of people read" in my high school (that I knew about) was Go Ask Alice.
After all the fuss, it was a bit of a letdown to finally read it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 04, 2009 11:11:45 am PST #23023 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My mom tore out the X-rated pages from Straub's Ghost Story when I pointed them out to her and asked questions, but gave me the rest of the book to finish reading as she had no objection to me reading about murder cover-ups, vengeful ghosts, and Gregory & Fenny Bates.
SuziQ - Dec 04, 2009 11:13:01 am PST #23024 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Go Ask Alice and Forever were the scandalous books I remember reading in middle school.
I want my kids to read. Period.
In MEME news - I hate writing self evaluations.
Hil R. - Dec 04, 2009 11:14:06 am PST #23025 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The only book that I can remember my mother ever telling me I couldn't read was Jephte's Daughter by Naomi Ragen. I borrowed it from my sister, and my mother took it away from me after I'd already read several chapters. I have no idea why that particular book was not allowed, since I'd read plenty of books with much more graphic sex and violence by that time.
Similarly, I wasn't allowed to watch the movie Murder in the First. Only movie I was ever told I wasn't allowed to watch.
tommyrot - Dec 04, 2009 11:14:13 am PST #23026 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I hate writing self evaluations.
See if Matt's mom still has the X-rated pages from Ghost Story that you could submit instead....
Aims - Dec 04, 2009 11:14:37 am PST #23027 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I want my kids to read. Period.
For that, I would suggest Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret.
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