Any book you loved when you were a teen?

You should see the two earlier versions, one dating back to 1933 with Katherine Hepburn and Joan Bennett, Jean Parker. There is also a 1949 version with June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor and Janet Leigh. These are really good version in fact I think maybe a bit better then the 1994 version.

I think that Little Women was the first BIG book I read. Before that I mostly read short stories and fairy tales. I immediatly identifed with Jo . Now, decades later, I still remember Little Woman as one of the important books of my childhood and early teens. I saw the first movie and the remake but for me THE movie was the first one. When I reread it when I was old, I discovered there a world the had escaped me when I read it the first time. The book depicts society in theat part of the country at a certain time if american History. And it also shows a philosophy of life that the author must have learned from her father and his friends.

Little Women is beautiful, as well as the movie adaptation with Susan Sarandon and Winona Ryder in it.

Hi yresh, I started to read when I was 3 years old and I haven´t stopped.I have a long love story with languages and with books. I read the first 3 harry Potter bookes. My grandchildren lent them to me. I had to read them to be able to talk to them: they were addicted to them for some time. I also went with them to see the pictures at the cinema ( standing in a long line as it seemed everyone in the city wanted to see the same movie). I loved the movies basically for the special effects. Here at home, I have books everywhere. I have even had to change wardrobes into book shelves. Lately I have changed my interests a bit from fiction to nonfiction. It must be that I´m getting old.

Thats a blast. i couldnt read when I was three. I can imagine your place now..hmmmm

I have always felt that the books where the action is somehere in the past teaches us some History or motivates us to read about it later. I think that now that is so much easier with Interent. Many times, when I´m reading about something that happened before our times, I find myself searching in the web to try to get the whole picture.

I agree with you that Jonathan Livingston Seagul is a classic for teens. Did you read Illusions, by the same author?

I liked The Cliet very much too. And I liked the picture that was made from the book. Usually after I read a book, I find that the picture does not reflect what was said in the book. It did not happent to me here. Did you read Dan Brown´s Da Vinci Code?

I agree. Same thing happened to Twilight, New Moon, and Angels and Demons. I haven't read the Da Vinci Code yet.

well my favorite book is MARY POPPINS of which I forget the authors name..but I really enjoyed it when I was a kid about 13~I love this accentric lady and I love her black eyes and pink cheek and of course her amusing magic!

Haven't read Marquez...

If Dearra gets interested in the rites of passage in different cultures after she finishes that book, there are wonderful books by Mircea Eliade (not fiction) who is a historian of religion. My eldest daughter´s Bible is the Lord of the Rings. I think I was too old to get that hooked on it as she was. I think that I was momentarilly weaned from fairy tales (came back to then later) with Le petit prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery (It´s in English, free online) and the it was Hermann Hesse´s Demian and Steinbeck´s East of Eden. THEN... I got married and got pregnant It´s true but I could not stop myselt from saying it after the book that started all these posts. Because I got married (yes), got pregnant (yes), continued studying at the university (yes) and continued reading (yes). That´s how I know you can leave your children to starve (or almost) because I almost did it when I read "100 years of solitude" by colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. That´s why I told you you could watch the Olimpics: the hordes know how to keep alive. HUG!

Gabriel García Marquez got the Nobel Prize. And I think this one, of all his novels and stories is one of the most magical. When I started to read it I could not stop. I had to feed the girls (then probably 8 and 6). I had steak with rice which they hated (I wonder why is it that one hates to eat at a certain age and then you just can´t stop from eating) As I was telling, there was the book with its siren chants and the girls at lunchtime (in my country the biggest meal of the day is lunch). So I had this great idea: I took them to the kitchen and told them we´d play they were hungry little birds. So I fried the steaks and they stood by the range. I gave a piece of steak to each birdie. They had NEVER eaten meat so quickly. I skipped the rice and chose a banana and told them that they could go eat it outside. End of the meal, went back to reading. I wonder sometimes If I was a terrible beast of a mother. HUG!

I loved at the right time all the books you mentioned, catla, except the last series. Maybe the books weren´t written when I was young. I still reread from time to time some of my favorites from that time. I had a crush on Mr. Rochester (Jane Eyre) at the time. He was a character SO intense. Later on, when I learned that the Bronte sisters had never stepped out of home, I wondered , and I still do, how they managed to imagine their male characters. I read all Jane Ausrin ant that age and I also rearead them as adult. Jane Austen depicts a space more than characters and that had escaped me when I was young. But I´m still partial to Pride and Prejudice and Nothanger Abbey because I liked the heroines best. I read some of Charles Dickens but I think none of the girls who are in their teens right now would be interested, unless it was an abridged edition (and that loses all the flavour). I´ll check those Sister Fidelma books. Or at leat, I´ll tell my friend with the teen age girl to check them. Thanks foe charing!

Try them, you'll like them. The Sr. Fidelma books weren't around when I was a teen, but if they had been, I'm sure they would have topped my list. Here is a wikipedia listing with more information about the series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Fidelma

Comics???? There is no word in dictionary as Comics.. Comics is a film.. U have to refer it as Comic books...

My youngest daughter is 46 and her b/f is a bit older, I think. He only reads comics. He is an expert by now. I suppose that he even has vintage comics at this time of his life. Unfortunatly he is a male and I´m sure he´s more into phanthom and other comics. I´d love to read ALL Little Lulu comics again!

I read a lot of Enid Blyton when I was about 11 and on. I was an early reader (learned how to read at 3). She had two serials of "school" girls and another one about some children with a parrakeet. Adventure at... I understand that you would want to go to those schools. Me too. But looking back, maybe I would have been grounded all term. AS it is, I felt elated when I finished school. I thought it was as horrible as a reformatory. I was just 16 when I started the Universty and that was utter bliss.

Enid Blyton was translated to Spanish. I´m a writer and I think too that Enid Blyton´s writing was simplistic. So are the Harry Potter series (copied from Enid Blyton, if you look closely). Nevertheless, if if makes youngsters enjoy reading, let´s welcome them. Ernesto Sabato, an author from Argentina, said that if noone liked Beethoven it was too bad for Beethoven. In this world where images are made outside our mind (so different from reading), any kind of book that makes people develop that wonder of turning the signs into images are welcome. We can choose later whether we only read best sellers or just prefer deep books. Maybe we can do both. I don´t think it was a good idea at all to be all the time in highschool with people 2 years older than me. I know I have a high IQ but that is not what makes a person worthwhile. But that´s another story. Take care!

Hello again. Yes, the other school series was 'St Clare's,' and she also did a series called 'The Naughtiest Girl in the School,' which was for younger readers. People say Enid Blyton's writing was simplistic, but it got children reading, didn't it? Didn't realise she made it to your corner of the world. Univesity at 16? Well done, you!

My grandson, aged 18 now, started to read with vampire books. I haven´t read them (I only read the vampire classics) but it seems many of them are quite interesting. Maybe I should ask him to lend me one. Thanks for sharing!