Umm, no, I even want to pick up the British editions of the Harry Potter books because while the Americanization was less with each book...it was still there.
WOAH, turns out books published after 2004 are actually different than the originals!
YA not existing until the 90s makes a lot of sense with my memory then. I read ALL the Christopher Pike novels. Years later I would be thoroughly disgusted at him: http://www.dailysabah.com/books/2014/09/07/a-cautionary-tale Oh Pike had more than just kissing, there was...SEX! Even abortion! There was also Fear Street by R.L. Stine and some Jerry Spinelli.
I couldn't find my reading type. Everything seems good so I would basically just start at one end of the bookshelf and work my way through...even the Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales on a dare and then Hans Christian Anderson because why not? Then, I read Jurassic Park, my first adult novel and the following school year had my teacher reading Goosebumps aloud. Goosebumps #1 So, it was all her fault. I started reading all the juvenile and YA horror except for Michael Crichton, I read all of his stuff, too. I read little else until 1997 when Star Wars and Buffy took over.
I remember reading The Outsiders for school. It was okay. There was also this diary of a teenage girl who was also an alcoholic. We also watched The Outsiders which most of the girls enjoyed because of the shirtlessness and everything.
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Date: 2016-06-30 02:18 am (UTC)WOAH, turns out books published after 2004 are actually different than the originals!
(hugs my originals even being US)
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/differences.html
YA not existing until the 90s makes a lot of sense with my memory then. I read ALL the Christopher Pike novels. Years later I would be thoroughly disgusted at him:
http://www.dailysabah.com/books/2014/09/07/a-cautionary-tale
Oh Pike had more than just kissing, there was...SEX! Even abortion! There was also Fear Street by R.L. Stine and some Jerry Spinelli.
I couldn't find my reading type. Everything seems good so I would basically just start at one end of the bookshelf and work my way through...even the Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales on a dare and then Hans Christian Anderson because why not? Then, I read Jurassic Park, my first adult novel and the following school year had my teacher reading Goosebumps aloud. Goosebumps #1
So, it was all her fault. I started reading all the juvenile and YA horror except for Michael Crichton, I read all of his stuff, too. I read little else until 1997 when Star Wars and Buffy took over.
I remember reading The Outsiders for school. It was okay. There was also this diary of a teenage girl who was also an alcoholic. We also watched The Outsiders which most of the girls enjoyed because of the shirtlessness and everything.