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My favorite book ever, but I think it's a little too much for an 8th or 9th grader. Wait until 11th or 12th grad for that one.

Still, a must-read for every member of the human race, IMO.

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Roots was better.

Toss him 1984, or Brave New World.

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selected books i was reading in ninth grade...

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That's a good one, but doesn't the kid graphically fuck his dad's girlfriend (or someone) at some point? From behind even?

Just sayin' in case his folks are against that sort of depiction.


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You know, you might not try to find an angsty book for an angsty kid. Could feel forced.

If the kid has any dork inclinations, go the sci-fi or fantasy route.


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herre are the other two i mentioned earlier

Youth in Revolt by CD Payne

Told as the diary of an oversexed 14-year-old, this three-part comic-novel deals with the usual adolescent bugbears: divorced parents, rebellion, virginity. Set in the cultural wasteland of trailer-park northern California, the episodic plot involves arson, car theft, police brutality and more. Nick tries to win an even more precocious girl his age, Sheeni Saunders, by means of allusive letters and screwball schemes which eventually backfire. Payne gives his narrator an overblown literary voice that contrasts with the attendant embarrassments of his age (e.g., the problems of finding a place to masturbate privately in an R.V.), but the narrative strains for comedic effect. With its Woody Allen-like punch lines, double entendres and overall high-school atmosphere, the novel reads like YA fiction: a nihilist Daniel Pinkwater. And for all Nick's intellectual pretension and artificial speech (qualities echoed, oddly, by nearly all the teenaged characters), he seems devoid of imagination or any redeeming qualities; nor does he care about anything other than satisfying his pubescent desires. And, though in the book's final third the boy comes alive in his drag persona of Carlotta (and Payne admirably brings home his convoluted plot), it is too late to revitalize an ultimately unsympathetic hero.

And its followup, REVOLTING YOUTH

Payne's self-published Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp became an underground sensation and garnered a youthful cult following for hero Nick Twisp, a linguistically precocious 14-year-old diarist. Later published by Doubleday, it has since sold more than 25,000 copies and is in development as a miniseries by MTV. In his latest adventure, Twisp, now independently wealthy as a result of his invention, the hugely successful "Wart Watch," is still disguised as Carlotta Ulansky, living in splendor with his maid, Mrs. Ferguson, and her son, Dwayne, and is once again attending high school in Ukiah, Calif. The deception is necessary because he is being pursued by the FBI for inadvertently burning down half of Berkeley. His girlfriend, the ever-luscious Sheeni Saunders, knows Carlotta's true identity and is accommodating her/his overactive hormones once or twice a week. The saga of teen angst and rebellion unfolds as before in Nick's first-person journal entries. Ever jealous of Sheeni's past flame, Trent Preston, Nick/Carlotta persuades Trent to elope with his present girlfriend, Apurva, to Mississippi, where 16-year-olds are allowed to marry. But Nick's triumph is short-lived. The FBI tracks him down, and he must once again skip town, ending up in Mexico, where he has plastic surgery and changes his identity. Going by the name of Rick S. Hunter, Nick runs into Sheeni in Baja, has an affair with her as Rick and discovers that she's pregnant with his baby. As in the previous volume, the plot becomes increasingly convoluted, but unlike its predecessor, this installment never catches fire. Nick's voice, although witty, seems less 14 than 40. Still, fans of the previous book will want to read this one, and cross-promotion with Payne's Frisco Pigeon Mambo (reviewed above) will help both titles.

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herre are the other two i mentioned earlier

Youth in Revolt by CD Payne

Told as the diary of an oversexed 14-year-old, this three-part comic-novel deals with the usual adolescent bugbears: divorced parents, rebellion, virginity. Set in the cultural wasteland of trailer-park northern California, the episodic plot involves arson, car theft, police brutality and more. Nick tries to win an even more precocious girl his age, Sheeni Saunders, by means of allusive letters and screwball schemes which eventually backfire. Payne gives his narrator an overblown literary voice that contrasts with the attendant embarrassments of his age (e.g., the problems of finding a place to masturbate privately in an R.V.), but the narrative strains for comedic effect. With its Woody Allen-like punch lines, double entendres and overall high-school atmosphere, the novel reads like YA fiction: a nihilist Daniel Pinkwater. And for all Nick's intellectual pretension and artificial speech (qualities echoed, oddly, by nearly all the teenaged characters), he seems devoid of imagination or any redeeming qualities; nor does he care about anything other than satisfying his pubescent desires. And, though in the book's final third the boy comes alive in his drag persona of Carlotta (and Payne admirably brings home his convoluted plot), it is too late to revitalize an ultimately unsympathetic hero.
oh my god this was fucking awful. I was at my parents house on friday and i saw it on my bookshelf, and i wondered who i could give it to. I ended up throwing it away.


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herre are the other two i mentioned earlier

Youth in Revolt by CD Payne

oh my god this was fucking awful. I was at my parents house on friday and i saw it on my bookshelf, and i wondered who i could give it to. I ended up throwing it away.


then give your copy to the good ole senator!

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It's not a book, but "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson is good for all of god's children.

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herre are the other two i mentioned earlier

Youth in Revolt by CD Payne

Told as the diary of an oversexed 14-year-old, this three-part comic-novel deals with the usual adolescent bugbears: divorced parents, rebellion, virginity. Set in the cultural wasteland of trailer-park northern California, the episodic plot involves arson, car theft, police brutality and more. Nick tries to win an even more precocious girl his age, Sheeni Saunders, by means of allusive letters and screwball schemes which eventually backfire. Payne gives his narrator an overblown literary voice that contrasts with the attendant embarrassments of his age (e.g., the problems of finding a place to masturbate privately in an R.V.), but the narrative strains for comedic effect. With its Woody Allen-like punch lines, double entendres and overall high-school atmosphere, the novel reads like YA fiction: a nihilist Daniel Pinkwater. And for all Nick's intellectual pretension and artificial speech (qualities echoed, oddly, by nearly all the teenaged characters), he seems devoid of imagination or any redeeming qualities; nor does he care about anything other than satisfying his pubescent desires. And, though in the book's final third the boy comes alive in his drag persona of Carlotta (and Payne admirably brings home his convoluted plot), it is too late to revitalize an ultimately unsympathetic hero.
oh my god this was fucking awful. I was at my parents house on friday and i saw it on my bookshelf, and i wondered who i could give it to. I ended up throwing it away.



i agreed. i hated it.


and i LOVE 'the lottery' by shirley jackson.

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1984.

or cat's cradle.

or brave new world.

or player piano.

or animal farm.

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So Loogs, did you get him that Dennis Rodman deuce or what?

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On the surface, it would appear that The Basketball Diaries is a good pick. So I thought I's mention it. But for a kid that you care about -- that young -- wait until he is in college.



So, this post (like many of my posts) really had no point, I guess.

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1984.

or cat's cradle.

or brave new world.

or player piano.

or animal farm.

thread over.


This is way more high minded than I wanna get. I think Ender's Game and that Bob Greene book and a moleskine journal are what I'm gonna get him.

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I was hoping someone would suggest something by Mitch Albom or Dave Eggers, just to see LooGAR physically choke the life out of them through his broadband innerwebs.

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THE STRANGER did it for me, though I didn't read it until high school.


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I just finished reading this. It's supposed to a teen book but i liked it. Frank Portman from the Mr. T Experience wrote it and it's kind of a mystery story about a loner type kid whose in a band. Funny stuff.

It mentions BJ's a few times so i don't know if that's something you care to give to your nephew.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385732910/102-6130732-6108151?v=glance&n=283155

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It mentions BJ's a few times so i don't know if that's something you care to give to your nephew.


Who do you think he is, OPA?!?


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It mentions BJ's a few times so i don't know if that's something you care to give to your nephew.


Who do you think he is, OPA?!?


Yeah that didn't come out right.

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how about the giver? it's more for children but it's so deep.

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Really, just about ANY book is good, so long as he reads it, and it causes him to want to read more.


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I have to agree with Vonnegut. Great books by a master satirist.

I'd throw in "Rendezvous With Rama" as intelligent sci-fi. I think some Clive Barker at that age might be cool, such as "Thief of Always". What about some intelligent graphic novels? Such as "Epileptic" or "The Watchmen".

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