tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post5884353728597571403..comments2024-03-29T17:19:23.201+05:30Comments on Compulsive Confessions: Before I get way old and forget this stuffeMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12716202062654957842noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-56965796651285567022007-02-28T10:28:00.000+05:302007-02-28T10:28:00.000+05:30Gawd..brought back lotta memories....Gawd..brought back lotta memories....Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04558049479312997467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-36722504567005007482007-02-25T21:27:00.000+05:302007-02-25T21:27:00.000+05:30boys did not have anything like sweet valley but t...boys did not have anything like sweet valley but then we read it also.. and yeah those were the daysAstraeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05857562854284708795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-88938767686808150992007-02-25T21:24:00.000+05:302007-02-25T21:24:00.000+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.Astraeushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05857562854284708795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-67852728675668566632007-02-25T11:57:00.000+05:302007-02-25T11:57:00.000+05:30well nothing quite as mature i'm afraid. i remembe...well nothing quite as mature i'm afraid. i remember reading a lot of goosebumps. and watching it on TV. and a lot of nickelodeon and degrassi but ach i don't exactly qualify for a local opinion.<BR/><BR/>and ah, my first kiss. a sweaty but altogether nice, non-slobbery kiss with another boy in the warm locker room post-tennis lessons. ah, to be fifteen again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-80230691067785670552007-02-25T09:30:00.000+05:302007-02-25T09:30:00.000+05:30Sweet Valley twins and high completely characteriz...Sweet Valley twins and high completely characterized my life for a while :) Although i grew out of them when Jessica and Elizabeth outran convicts, had an ex boyfriend go blind, lost Regina, got kidnapped and fell in and out of love so many times all in the space of a year :( But i loved them until i turned 15! I hated the university books - i think i read one. I reackon i must have read all of the high school series :)<BR/>-AmyLidiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14196002055847914826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-76727701490363547312007-02-24T07:57:00.000+05:302007-02-24T07:57:00.000+05:30nancy friday!?! the only people i've ever sold nan...nancy friday!?! the only people i've ever sold nancy fridays to have been middle aged women!hedonistic hobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693480297800328494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-24463666939321077912007-02-24T04:29:00.000+05:302007-02-24T04:29:00.000+05:30Firstly, I dont think too many boys, pre-teen or t...Firstly, I dont think too many boys, pre-teen or teen, are really interested in reading books about love and romance. From Hardy Boys, we would generally move towards the crime and mystery genre's, and then if the reading passion continues, towards more serious literature.<BR/><BR/>But if the question relates with books which boys read to try and understand women, I'm surprised none of the guys mentioned Nancy Friday's books. Erm... or was that just me?KingSlayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580918112343867065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-84530283169939203552007-02-24T02:45:00.000+05:302007-02-24T02:45:00.000+05:30And didnt they also have a size 8 figure! I never ...And didnt they also have a size 8 figure! I never understood what that meant before I came to the US. Tho' now I think it's more "in" to be size zero...<BR/><BR/>Going by the reading habits of most boys I ve known, they regress from hardy boys to comic books.Amrita Pandehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208389368223587051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-5500217360945967512007-02-23T19:52:00.000+05:302007-02-23T19:52:00.000+05:30All I did was play Atari videogames!All I did was play Atari videogames!bashohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12417488256534208721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-51185534569829512152007-02-23T18:58:00.000+05:302007-02-23T18:58:00.000+05:30i was one of those that jumped from 'The naughties...i was one of those that jumped from 'The naughtiest Girl in School' to things that teachers recommended, adn were known as 'Classics', because Sweet Valleys, I judged from the covers were too much of a challenge, blondes who have friends who are basketball-players and then they develop crushes on them.... was just too much fantasy.... I had thick glasses and long plaits, and hence as a survival mechanism chose to sort of scoff at the blondes in my class who read them, and wore stretch jeans...in the same breath, must confess that around the age of seventeen/eighteen, hidingly,i think i read some of them...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-16547704503340953322007-02-23T18:27:00.000+05:302007-02-23T18:27:00.000+05:30and oh.... letters to penthousewould explain the s...and oh.... letters to penthouse<BR/><BR/>would explain the sort of guys who think nipples are knobs.hedonistic hobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693480297800328494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-35718376088300695142007-02-23T18:26:00.000+05:302007-02-23T18:26:00.000+05:30of course boys had books, they're the ones i read ...of course boys had books, they're the ones i read alongside the crap valley twins. i liked the baby sitters club a bit better though. and my collection of oscar wilde, african folk stories (my parents had really weird taste in books) and edgar allen poe (happy literature indeed)<BR/><BR/>1. tolkien (also still my favourite)<BR/>2. then you have all those batman, superman, the sandman comic books<BR/>3. growing up there was always terry pratchett (i had a sporty elder brother who also happened to be a literateur! not.)<BR/>4. the artemis fowl series<BR/>5. tintin + asterix/obelisk (gender neutral)<BR/>6. the adventure series<BR/>7. my brother got me in to agatha christie as well. together we hated miss marple.<BR/><BR/><BR/>there's plenty dude. if boys read dude. dahl, though he's for everyone. nowadays kids got harry potter, eragon and tonnes of more stuff. it's a freakishly lucrative business. p.g. woodehouse. again gender neutral like practically every book here. you know after all the sweet valley trash i was so glad to have discovered fear of flying. <BR/><BR/>the best one to answer this question should be barrycuda because he's a voracious reader still and i'm sure there was a point of time in life when he didn't read just blatantly right-winged history books. even benny.hedonistic hobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693480297800328494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-24042905599878972832007-02-23T18:17:00.000+05:302007-02-23T18:17:00.000+05:30This comment has been removed by the author.hedonistic hobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693480297800328494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-77313793964625427092007-02-23T16:51:00.000+05:302007-02-23T16:51:00.000+05:30I still have the phantoms/ mandrakes/ tinkles/ tin...I still have the phantoms/ mandrakes/ tinkles/ tintins. <BR/>The nostalgia made me talk abt them to the team during lunch and one thing led to other and we were talkin abt the versions of songs that we mis-sung. The most common gochi in the song that every1 agreed to was 'app jaisa koi... BAAP ban jaaye'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-71336449739539021662007-02-22T23:34:00.000+05:302007-02-22T23:34:00.000+05:30OH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD YOU READ SWEET VALLEY ...OH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD YOU READ SWEET VALLEY TWINS TOO!!!!!!! Most people just laugh at me when i talk about it!!!!!!!Zeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02124938389441103859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-41977954240575123032007-02-22T21:11:00.000+05:302007-02-22T21:11:00.000+05:30oh sweet valleys! they don't publish them anymore ...oh sweet valleys! they don't publish them anymore ;( but if i ever see one at a roadside bookseller's, i always pick it up...like holding onto a piece of the 12-yr-old me who though romance was all abt plotting to get the boy to fall for u (jessica was a bad influence!)Namratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17712989465730024006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-26274251178663830562007-02-22T16:15:00.000+05:302007-02-22T16:15:00.000+05:30No shantanu, that was duke nukem and other such co...No shantanu, that was duke nukem and other such computer games where the captured chick in high heels didn't realize she could leave a hole in her captors' heads with that pencil heel, and needed a guy with guns he couldn't possibly lift come and rescue him...Renovatiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287413128345582022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-40198719672764888622007-02-22T16:06:00.000+05:302007-02-22T16:06:00.000+05:30Ha ha! Were you serious? For most guys during th...Ha ha! Were you serious? For most guys during these growing-up years love is a complication they had to deal with! Guys who do read books during this age, read about guys who fight/kill other 'bad' guys, and hot chicks who don't mind the lack of foreplay!Shantanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10775725512802702601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-55809562692439154712007-02-22T11:08:00.000+05:302007-02-22T11:08:00.000+05:30Now your site looks hot and sexy.Now your site looks hot and sexy.ChetanBhattarai@Ghyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06872796456745282165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-20557942407796346402007-02-22T02:58:00.000+05:302007-02-22T02:58:00.000+05:30i kind of liked the SVU... i personally think they...i kind of liked the SVU... i personally think they should have something for the next stage when the twins have babies and then all the way till they go through menopause. i think the fact that SVU and the like was available for us to read while we were still in middle school helped us grow into our healthy dating/relationship culture... cos if we didn't have that we'd be struggling like the guys (as mentioned by anonymous somewhere back there)with every male-related curveball life throws at us!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-13427974109065591032007-02-22T02:42:00.000+05:302007-02-22T02:42:00.000+05:30goodness. i'm having a major case of wakefield twi...goodness. i'm having a major case of wakefield twins-nostalgitis! other mandatory reading during those years: the babysitters club, nancy drew case files (the more grown up nancy drew in which she's actually dating whatshisname), the cheerleaders, fear street. <BR/>your blog will soon become a chronicle for the growing up years of us 20-somethings. (i can't believe i'm a 20-something now!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-76647482337816186972007-02-22T01:53:00.000+05:302007-02-22T01:53:00.000+05:30heee yeah Lila was a major bitch who used her dadd...heee yeah Lila was a major bitch who used her daddy's credit card all the time. and i dont know why i remember this but this bruce kid's car had licence plates that read 1BRUCE1<BR/><BR/>ooh and didnt the twins also have a super hot brother?Prihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16108590658279269690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-52801100237253579152007-02-22T00:45:00.000+05:302007-02-22T00:45:00.000+05:30Jessica's brunette rich friend was Lila Fowler. I ...Jessica's brunette rich friend was Lila Fowler. I think Bruce went out with her only at SVU, though (after her rich Italian count husband died and she came back to uni). In high school he went out with Amy Sutton and Regina Morrow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-70527831490190768072007-02-22T00:17:00.000+05:302007-02-22T00:17:00.000+05:30I LOVED Sweet Valley, and I've always wanted a big...I LOVED Sweet Valley, and I've always wanted a big brother named Steve, just like the twins' brother. <BR/><BR/>I'd read anything cold war and WW2 back in the day, even if it was highly age inappropriate. And then I'd play censor and tell my mom exactly why my little sister should NOT be reading it. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Willard Price, Enid Blyton, those old Superman/Mandrake/Phantom comics. And Tinkle and Target! Tinkle was something you'd snobbishly say you DIDN'T read, even though you secretly lapped it up with thorough enjoyment. All of us born after '80 and before '90 read practically the same books, didn't we?Raindrophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09868858360846629731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382033.post-39903238058815669652007-02-22T00:12:00.000+05:302007-02-22T00:12:00.000+05:30Who was that auburn haired rich friend of Jessica'...Who was that auburn haired rich friend of Jessica's? Y'know, the one with the rich, spineless-but-kinda-cute boyfriend (Bruce was it?)...she was bitchy fun.Loony Libberswick of Llaplandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02054132476841870765noreply@blogger.com