Nancy Drew

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:55 am

When I was a pre-teen I once got into my mother's cache of hidden books and read "Lady Chatterly's Lover" when she went to work. It made me look at ivy in a whole different way.

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:59 am

Oh Angel...I read that one too ! I was about 14...LOL.

I read GWTW...three times. Of course the 'sequel' was not even close to Ms. Mitchell's classic.

I am still trying to finish Wicked. It is interesting...but drags in the middle. I am sure the 'dragging' part will make sense by the time I get to the end.

Tracy...

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:51 am

You girls were soooooo naughty! Do your Mothers know what you've done? Oh, the shame!

Can you imagine what Margaret Mitchell could have accomplished in her literary life if she hadn't been killed so young? How many stories she had left to tell? I often wonder.

That "dragging" part in books is what turns me off. The author puts a lot of extra words in to fill the book with just enough story-line details sprinkled in to make it mandatory for the reader to stay with the whole book. I guess thick books sell better.

-1bigsteve (o:

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 2:57 pm

[quote="1bigsteve @ Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:51 pm"]You girls were soooooo naughty! Do your Mothers know what you've done? Oh, the shame!

I can live with it. lol

Angel

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:35 pm

About the naughtiest book I ever "read" as a boy was Montgomery Ward's catalog. Get it?

Island of The Blue Dolphins was another book I fell in love with. I have a hardback version now with colored water color paintings in it depicting various scenes from the story. Real cool!

Another book is Watership Down. I have the sequel Tales From Watership Down I have not read yet. I have Little Women and Little Men but have not read. I have never seen Jo's Boys yet. I read The Aunt Hill many years ago. Alcot was pretty good. Prince and The Pauper was good but Personal Recollections of Joan Of Arc was a bit draggy. Wild Trek was real good and so was On The Edge of The Fjord, about Norway kids outsmarting the Germans during World War II. Got Mrs. Wiggs of The Cabbage Patch that I'll read one day. The Skeleton Cave was another I liked and of course Miss Hickory.

Too many to recall.

-1bigsteve (o:

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:43 pm

I read 'GWTW' and loved it as well.... It was an eye opener for me as we only skimmed over the Civil War when we studied world history in school. I think the perspective from a Southern point was important.

As for naughty? Jackie Collins.

I also love the Janet Evanovich books.

Nicholas Sparks? Ugh! Too wishy washy for me!

Elizabeth Ann · Post by **Elizabeth Ann** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:29 pm

1bigsteve @ Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:51 am wrote: Anybody like Dr. Suese? Green Eggs and Ham was my favorite. That crazy art work tickled me pink. A railroad track running across the top of a tree and being tied down with string? A tiny house from the outside in Cat In The Hat but the house is huge on the inside with long hallways that can't possibly fit into that tiny house? Everything in those books is out of kilter, nothing is square and plumb. And how about that thick blue water in Fox In Sox? No matter what dangers the car or train is facing the driver and passengers always have a smile on their faces or their eyes are closed or both. I love it!

What would we do if we couldn't remember our childhood? I take mine along with me no matter where I go...

-1bigsteve (o:

Well first of all if you have Peanuts graphics, you are a good person! I grew up with the Peanuts gang and my grandangels love them too. My youngest granddaughter will sit and recite the script from most of the holiday specials! They also love Dr. Suess as did their mother. I still laugh because I can pretty much hold up all our Dr. Suess books and show the pictures to the kids and just recite the book, I have read them so many times I know them by heart!

As a young girl I loved Cherry Ames because I had wanted to be a nurse. I also love Nancy Drew. As a teen I got into the Dark Shadows Series (Based on the Show). My first "naughty" book was Valley of the Dolls which I would sneak out of my mother's bedstand in the morning, take to school and read with my girlfriend and then put back when I got home from school!

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:17 am

Naughty books? Well, as it happens, even I have a favorite of that ilk, penned in the middle '50s by a native of Manchester, New Hampshire - the great god of all modern "trash," Peyton Place...

"Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly-passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases, so that one is never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay." (That should be right, the opening lines anyway...don't have my copy handy at the moment.)

I wish the sequel were as good, but...frankly, Allison, it stunk!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:01 am

When you click on "Post Reply" there appears on the left "Emoticons" and "View more Emoticons"- if you click on "View more..." there are 21 Peanuts characters there, at the bottom. If you click on one it decorates your post.

I can't recall my first "naughty" book. We were allowed to read anything and everything we wanted so there was no differentiation...

Elizabeth Ann · Post by **Elizabeth Ann** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:07 am

Thanks! Didn't realize there were more! Peppermint Patty is my favorite!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:51 am

Stefani added them recently. Glad to see you back!

Elizabeth Ann · Post by **Elizabeth Ann** » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:36 am

Thanks Kat! Good to be back. I noticed it had said I didn't post since Dec. 3 when I finally got back to read the posts! The holidays, work and family got in the way of my pc time!
We have been painting and wallpapering all of January and have a new bedroom and living room suit arriving tomorrow, making all the hard work worthwhile!
We built our home almost 6 years ago and are still living with some rooms with just base coat! Our goal is to have them all done by the end of this year! I am getting too old for this much hard work! Glad to go back to work so I can sit at my desk!
I love this forum, you guys are just SOOOO ahead of me in your LB knowledge. I am enjoying learning though!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:41 am

Oh so you've been decorating! How fun!
I would love that. I'm just watching Home&Garden Network all the time now...well, I keep it on in the background...
It's such a creative outlet to decorate!

Elizabeth Ann · Post by **Elizabeth Ann** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:19 am

Hubby just sighs when I am watching Home & Garden! I get so many ideas, but don't seem to have the time or money to do them all!

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:02 am

Don't feel bad, Elizabeth. I bought a house fifteen years ago and still have'nt finished the remodeling. In fact I put in new doors then and never painted them yet. They still have their primer coat exposed. I have the money but not the time.

Fortunately I bought a FranklinCovey CD set on how to organize my time and it is working out for me very well so it look's like those doors are going to get painted next week! Finally!! Yipeeee!!!

-1bigsteve (o: