best coming of age books

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  • Lukin66
    Lukin66 Posts: 3,063
    One Song Glory wrote:
    The "His Dark Materials" Trilogy (Golden Compass, etc.)
    nice to see this series getting some love. Too many people write it off as children's literature, which it most definitely is not.
    deep, deep blue of the morning
    gets to me every time
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    kh65 wrote:
    Penthouse


    February 1986 US Edition. I fell in love with that centrefold woman. Or was it March. I forget now. She was blonde. That narrows it down.
  • Keiran
    Keiran Posts: 393
    J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"
    I connected with Holden Caulfield in a way I that has never again happened with another literary character.
    I wish a guy like Eddie, would like me.
  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    Lord Of The Flies
    The Alchemist
  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    Fever Pitch
    Binary solo..000000100000111100001110
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    stephen king's the body aka stand by me. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    catefrances wrote:
    stephen king's the body aka stand by me. :)
    Oooooooooooohh... yes! I read that so many times as a kid/young teenager that I knew every word of it :o (also something to do with the fact that I was IN LOVE with River Phoenix :D )
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Oooooooooooohh... yes! I read that so many times as a kid/young teenager that I knew every word of it :o (also something to do with the fact that I was IN LOVE with River Phoenix :D )

    oh well who wasn't. :D

    im just about to start reading it to my boy.
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Linda
    Linda Posts: 1,656
    A Tale of Love and Darkness, Amos Oz
    i'm not happy yet.....
  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    catefrances wrote:
    oh well who wasn't. :D

    im just about to start reading it to my boy.
    I read it in a collection of stories called Different Seasons, also had the Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil within which were pretty great too. I recall each of them, yet only now that I've looked it up do I see they are/were all together.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    elmer wrote:
    I read it in a collection of stories called Different Seasons, also had the Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil within which were pretty great too. I recall each of them, yet only now that I've looked it up do I see they are/were all together.

    yeah me too. i borrowed it from a close friend. she later killed herself so, that shoddy paperback holds special significance for me. it will always remain with me. :( :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say

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