From the prompting of Sir Kyu and Pao from Zarah, here are my top ten books I read as a teenager, remembering that my childhood is not exactly typical:
1. In His Steps, Charles Sheldon
2. Les Miserables, (unabridged!), Victor Hugo
3. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
4. The Social Cancer, the Charles Derbyshire rendering of Noli Me Tangere, Jose Rizal
5. The Reign of Greed, Charles Derbyshire El Filibusterismo, Jose Rizal
6. LIttle Women, Louisa May Alcott
7. Anne of Green Gables series, L.M. Montgomery
8. Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
9. The HIding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
10. Star of Light, Patricia St. John
- In His Steps, The Hiding Place, and Star of Light are required readings in our school that I did like a lot.
- My time in high school was part of the height of Miss Saigon/Les Miserables fever, so after hearing the musical I got interested in reading the book. I don't regret it.
- My copies of the English Rizal books I got from my grandfather. Shortly after, he died, so I was passing time in the funeral parlor reading Rizal and reminiscing my lolo.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy is the book basis for the Cedie anime, which I did like a lot. I liked Princess Sarah a lot too, but its book version, I still like Cedie's story more.
To explain, since I'm a Christian-school kid, pretty much the only books then I could read without my mother being too suspicious were the classics. Not that it was a bother, I was indeed interested in the classics, why they were classics. This means I read things like A Wrinkle in Time only recently. I personally didn't like the Sweet Valley series too much, back then I wasn't into mysteries so wasn't into Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys, and I found the Choose-your-own-adventure books interesting but quickly boring.
What I loved about most of the timeless classics of Western literature is that the ones I read had a little of everything, and the romance levels were at levels I could tolerate.
EK 8 )
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1. In His Steps, Charles Sheldon
2. Les Miserables, (unabridged!), Victor Hugo
3. The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
4. The Social Cancer, the Charles Derbyshire rendering of Noli Me Tangere, Jose Rizal
5. The Reign of Greed, Charles Derbyshire El Filibusterismo, Jose Rizal
6. LIttle Women, Louisa May Alcott
7. Anne of Green Gables series, L.M. Montgomery
8. Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
9. The HIding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
10. Star of Light, Patricia St. John
- In His Steps, The Hiding Place, and Star of Light are required readings in our school that I did like a lot.
- My time in high school was part of the height of Miss Saigon/Les Miserables fever, so after hearing the musical I got interested in reading the book. I don't regret it.
- My copies of the English Rizal books I got from my grandfather. Shortly after, he died, so I was passing time in the funeral parlor reading Rizal and reminiscing my lolo.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy is the book basis for the Cedie anime, which I did like a lot. I liked Princess Sarah a lot too, but its book version, I still like Cedie's story more.
To explain, since I'm a Christian-school kid, pretty much the only books then I could read without my mother being too suspicious were the classics. Not that it was a bother, I was indeed interested in the classics, why they were classics. This means I read things like A Wrinkle in Time only recently. I personally didn't like the Sweet Valley series too much, back then I wasn't into mysteries so wasn't into Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys, and I found the Choose-your-own-adventure books interesting but quickly boring.
What I loved about most of the timeless classics of Western literature is that the ones I read had a little of everything, and the romance levels were at levels I could tolerate.
EK 8 )
This entry was originally posted at http://ekmisao.dreamwidth.org/32753.html. Please comment there using OpenID.