Childhood nostalgia poll

[rachelmanija]

Please reminisce, fondly or not, about any of these, or other books read in childhood, especially if they seem to have, deservedly or undeservedly, vanished from the shelves. I'd love to hear about non-US, non-British books, too.

[Poll #1720139]

Comments

[skirmish-of-wit.livejournal.com]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Lurlene McDaniel as part of the Dead Teenager category! When I was 11 I read every book of hers in the library: Six Months to Live, and it had sequels! Was one of them Six More Months to Live? That's can't possibly be the actual title, right? There was one called I Want to Live, though. And either she or someone very similar also wrote books about kids with runaway siblings who went off to The City and Lived On The Streets and also Got Hooked On The Drugs and even Stole Things Sometimes.

Oh, Lurlene McDaniel. So much melodrama in such short books!

I also read pretty much all of Agatha Christie's oeuvre when I was in junior high. Then I discovered Dorothy Sayers, and the world got immeasurably better.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

It's actually I Want to Live. ;)

Other actual titles by the Writer of DOOM:

A Time to Die
Don't Die, My Love
Please Don’t Die
Mother, Please Don't Die
Why Did She Have To Die?
If I Should Die Before I Wake
Someone Dies, Someone Lives
Sixteen and Dying
Baby Alicia is Dying
She Died Too Young
The Girl Death Left Behind
When Happily Ever After Ends

[skirmish-of-wit.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that is one magnificent list of titles.

I definitely read A Time to Die, Mother, Please Don't Die, Sixteen and Dying, and Baby Alicia is Dying, and probably a couple of others. OH LURLENE.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

WOW.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha, omg seeing them altogether like that is awesome. There is some form of death in every single title but the last!

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Clearly the death in the last one is just heavily implied! XD

[sleary.livejournal.com]

Holy cats, how could I have forgotten Lurlene McDaniel?! Aside from being morbid, those books imparted useful knowledge -- I pretty much knew what was going on with my grandfather when he was diagnosed with leukemia when I was seven or so. Shocked the hell out of my mother, who had no idea what I'd been reading.