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Originally Posted by Bakiryu
Ha ha. I wouldn't know...
YES. Twilight.
I'm so out of it, sorry. This kid at my school said "steazy" and I had no clue what it meant, so that shows you what I know about kids these days...:p
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Originally Posted by Bakiryu
Ha ha. I wouldn't know...
YES. Twilight.
I'm so out of it, sorry. This kid at my school said "steazy" and I had no clue what it meant, so that shows you what I know about kids these days...:p
What does steazy mean anyway? (Like Sleazy?) My math teacher was talking about hoochies and hoodrats and I was so out of it!
To anyone interested the 3rd book in the Twilight series is out! it's called Eclipse! I hope is better than New Moon!
Lessee...he said it's when you do something really cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bakiryu
But according to UrbanDictionary.com, (love that site) it means, "it can pretty much meen almost any thing like shadey, cool, dank, wierd. this is a word that you could use almost everywhere. it can also be its own sentence using any of theese meenings"
Yeah...I think it's some kinda skater gibberish. :p Like, "That alley-oop 360 thingy (:lol:) that you did right now was so steazy!"
me being foreteen... you should take all advise from me. (i'm just teasing i'm a strange gal.) but anyway, "The True Confession of Charlotte Doyle" is a gripping one, i read it in the matter of days. It's taken place at sea, in 1832. or you might want to try the books "eragon" or "eldest". eragon is the first book, but "eldest" is the second and is somewhat better. all three are excelent. hope you find what you're looking for-argetlam
I saw EAP's thread and burst into laughter. Even thought I have read some of those books most people my age cringe at the thought of reading
"Heidi, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain; anything by Jules Verne; Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift; Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck"
Maybe you should pay them to read. And I'm being honest I'm 14 going on 15!
At the risk of sounding biased, my own novel, The Magic Lands, is rather good :)
Over here they recently put Artemis fowl on the english curriculum for 14 year olds. Its every funny and clever. The boys in the class will love the technology in the books andthe girls will love Holly short.
I think all the books I have in my mind have been mentioned before, but it doesn't hurt seconding them sometimes! :p
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (it's certainly a very good choice)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Heidi (lovely novel though the translation I read was not very good but still it looked very nice)
I can't remember that far back, so I might have books more suitable for younger people mixed in with books more suitable for older people but *shrugs* I like all of these books:
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (one of the best books in the world)
Tuck Everlasting
Where the Red Fern Grows (everyone cried in our class, even the boys ;) )
Angels and Demons (I liked it much better than The DaVinci Code, and books don't get much more gripping than this one ;) )
I seem to remember that Martel's "Life of Pi" was funny, where it wasn't strange & gripping.
And how about "Strange Loop" by Amanda Prantera - maybe for older teenagers, perhaps - probably banned in American schools on grounds of sex & religion - OK, forget I suggested it.
"Henderson the Rain King" by Bellow - Exciting and funny
i was thinkin of taking up where the red ferns grows myself, actually.
p.s. hoot is an awsome book also.
Going through my old reading journals from that period, I seem to have liked:
Bosco, H. - Sylvius
Canetti, E. - The Tongue Set Free (though this is not quite "novel")
Chamisso, A. von - Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (I do not know how it is translated into English - if it is translated at all?)
Doxiados, A. - Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
Hesse, H. - anything, especially Demian and Glass Bead Game
Wilde, O. - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Yourcenar, M. - Alexis, Memoirs of Hadrian
I realise that probably none of those novels is quite what you seek for (starting with that they are not quite modern, most of them), however, just in case you wish to consider them. ;)
Does it really have to be a novel? For if it doesn't... then I have some other potential suggestions.
Look no further - The secret diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4
The growing pains of Adrian Mole
+ sequels
Enjoy :)
The Tales of The Otori (Across the Nightingale Floor; Grass for his Pillow; Brilliance of the Moon) by Lian Hearn, and the follow-on to the trilogy, The Harsh Cry of the Heron.
They are amazing books. They're really easy to get into because of the action, but then there's also the complexity of the beautiful language and the detailed plot. Loads of different types of people of all ages (teenage+) love them.
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is funny.
Something with sex in . . .
You could try 120 Days of Sodom and see how they handle it:thumbs_up :bawling: