I have this book!! My husband gave it to me as a joke. It came wrapped in brown paper so you couldn't preview it. When I opened it up, I was surprised it was filled with men that looked like they belonged in 70s porn, each complete with a pornstache.
The late, great Gilda Radner autobiography, It's Always Something. She was so loving and always had such a positive attitude. Cried like a baby after reading it knowing she fought so hard but the damned cancer took her away.
Film: Wag the Dog - I don't trust the government or the media anymore.
Books: I Am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die, Number the Stars, Arch of Triumph, etc. - For different reasons. Please read these books; they're all phenomenal.
Book - Rock Stat by Jackie Colins (Very deep: I know!) I was at impressionable age, going out among to the L.A. Haunts where where the major Rockets were going, and others hot male celebs, sometimes I thought I was invincible. I have a lot if stories- Id start to get in trouble and then flee like a scaredy cat. Sigh....(I'd die if i we're my own daughter, from that time, but luckily I come from solid family-it helped me at the last minute.)
Movie - Stepmom -buuuut by TV time I was mature enough to (agree to) watch it, it was after the fact. It wasn't quite the same scenario bit it hae me a different perspective on the subject.
Movie - Joe The King - because I wanted any young boy who was going in a bad direction see the consequences. I fel in love with Noah Fleiss as a young actor and the ending hit me. And then John Leguzamo (in my mind, a comedian, who BTW I loved, with a somewhat righ childhood) Exec produced and acted and I thought "if he can accomplish this then I can fulfill my aspirations".
Home Alone - mac looked like my nephew was going to look (my nephew was a toddler) and Id never wanted kids (since childhood) yet I was dying, I wanted either Mac or my nephew for my own. Lol. (Luckily I got a lot if time and great memories with our famys Mac)
auntliddy, TKAM is what I was going to say! It was required reading for me in junior high, but my mom had already given me a copy for my 8th birthday, because it was her favorite book. Then it became my fave also. You're right, it is very powerful, and can still be considered quite relevant today. I really feel To Kill a Mockingbird is the type of literature important for adults to introduce to kids, even if it is not " required" by a particular school system. Truly a classic.
The Handmaid's Tale is one of the most frightening and thought-provoking books I have ever read. I read it at a vulnerable age, in my 20s. I was surrounded by alpha males, and I could see them picking us off as their potential child-bearers.
Ulysses by James Joyce. Because my sister claimed to understand it at 16 and I couldn't understand it at 14. Still can't. After that, we hardly spoke. I have no idea why this book consistently ranks among the best ever written. I'd always tried to be friends with my older sister, but her reaction made it clear that she thought I was dumb. That was the beginning of the end of our relationship. So yes, a book that had a deep impact on my life, possibly not the way Outtie intended.
The book that I wrote....because I wrote it.
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DeleteThat would kind of defeat the purpose of remaining somewhat anonymous :p
DeleteBut I will say it is successful and it's geared towards a specific community
DeleteThe Big Penis Book. Because I'm a size queen ;)
ReplyDeleteI have this book!! My husband gave it to me as a joke. It came wrapped in brown paper so you couldn't preview it. When I opened it up, I was surprised it was filled with men that looked like they belonged in 70s porn, each complete with a pornstache.
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DeleteThe late, great Gilda Radner autobiography, It's Always Something. She was so loving and always had such a positive attitude. Cried like a baby after reading it knowing she fought so hard but the damned cancer took her away.
ReplyDeleteFilm: Wag the Dog - I don't trust the government or the media anymore.
ReplyDeleteBooks: I Am Fifteen and I Do Not Want to Die, Number the Stars, Arch of Triumph, etc. - For different reasons. Please read these books; they're all phenomenal.
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver. I still haven't read Silent Spring but I'm sure that will affect me more.
ReplyDeleteAndy Warhol Diaries. My 1st taste of insider celebrity gossip. Juicy!
ReplyDeleteHa. That's on my book shelves too. Total dish.
DeleteFor whom the bell tolls. It makes me want to be a writer! Love that his books never have a happy ending. Because I'm a pessimist like that I guess.
ReplyDeleteA New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
ReplyDeleteBook - Rock Stat by Jackie Colins
ReplyDelete(Very deep: I know!)
I was at impressionable age, going out among to the L.A. Haunts where where the major Rockets were going, and others hot male celebs, sometimes I thought I was invincible. I have a lot if stories- Id start to get in trouble and then flee like a scaredy cat. Sigh....(I'd die if i we're my own daughter, from that time, but luckily I come from solid family-it helped me at the last minute.)
Movie - Stepmom -buuuut by TV time I was mature enough to (agree to) watch it, it was after the fact. It wasn't quite the same scenario bit it hae me a different perspective on the subject.
Movie - Joe The King - because I wanted any young boy who was going in a bad direction see the consequences. I fel in love with Noah Fleiss as a young actor and the ending hit me. And then John Leguzamo (in my mind, a comedian, who BTW I loved, with a somewhat righ childhood) Exec produced and acted and I thought "if he can accomplish this then I can fulfill my aspirations".
Home Alone - mac looked like my nephew was going to look (my nephew was a toddler) and Id never wanted kids (since childhood) yet I was dying, I wanted either Mac or my nephew for my own. Lol. (Luckily I got a lot if time and great memories with our famys Mac)
@cheesegrater.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Never knew what "Wag The Dog" was about. Now I'm going to watch.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Because Atticus did the right thing, always. Very powerful.
ReplyDeleteauntliddy, TKAM is what I was going to say! It was required reading for me in junior high, but my mom had already given me a copy for my 8th birthday, because it was her favorite book. Then it became my fave also. You're right, it is very powerful, and can still be considered quite relevant today. I really feel To Kill a Mockingbird is the type of literature important for adults to introduce to kids, even if it is not " required" by a particular school system. Truly a classic.
DeleteFierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins. People of zee wurl...relax!
ReplyDeleteThe Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood. Read as a teenager. Changed my naive opinion on a lot of things.
ReplyDeleteThe Handmaid's Tale is one of the most frightening and thought-provoking books I have ever read. I read it at a vulnerable age, in my 20s. I was surrounded by alpha males, and I could see them picking us off as their potential child-bearers.
DeleteThe Bible and The Quran?
ReplyDeleteThe Kite Runner/A Thousand Splendid Suns - cried my eyes out at both books in sadness and in hope,beautiful,tragic and uplifting all at once
ReplyDeleteDeep Throat
ReplyDeleteUlysses by James Joyce. Because my sister claimed to understand it at 16 and I couldn't understand it at 14. Still can't. After that, we hardly spoke. I have no idea why this book consistently ranks among the best ever written. I'd always tried to be friends with my older sister, but her reaction made it clear that she thought I was dumb. That was the beginning of the end of our relationship. So yes, a book that had a deep impact on my life, possibly not the way Outtie intended.
ReplyDeleteAlice in wonderland/Through the looking glass. I haven't read it in a while but i read and reread it so many times when i was younger.
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