what was your favourite book when you were 15?

Answer 1

"The Fear of Flying," by Erica Jong
"Lady Chatterley's Lover," by DH Lawrence
Agatha Christie mysteries
Kurt Vonnegut novels

Answer 2

Okay, what DID I read when I was 15? Hmmm . . .

I was a big fan of the Oz books (the original 14 by L. Frank Baum, not the plethora of Thompson, Neill, et. al. imitations). Some of the science fiction I also read then (e.g. Philip Jose Farmer's Dayworld) I didn't understand until I was older anyway.

I've got two selections. The first is Baum's sixth Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz, originally published in 1910. For those who don't remember, this is the book where Dorothy comes to live in Oz permanently. While she and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em -- never called "Auntie Em", that's from the 1939 movie -- are taking a grand tour of southern Oz, the wicked Nome King is attempting to invade Oz with a variety of evil creatures by digging a tunnel under the Deadly Desert that surrounds it and ending in the Emerald City. The ending of the book -- I don't want to spoil it for you -- is awesome!

The second book, an early exposure of mine to sci-fi (how does that sound like crickets making love, anyway?), was Rudy Rucker's 1984 work Master of Space and Time. The main character's former lab partner, Harry Gerber, discovers how to build and power a "blunzer", a device that would grant godlike powers (i.e. infinite wish fulfillment) to whoever used it for a set length of time. Looking back on it, the book's a comedic version of "The Monkey's Paw" in that the wishes each character makes to improve the world ultimately ends in disaster until the final one. Parallel worlds, porkchop bushes, use blue gluons the second time . . . it's all there, and it's a fun book to read.

Answer 3

Either everyone responding is really young, their favorite book hasn't changed, or I just have a really bad memory because I was 15 just about 8 years ago and I have no idea what mine was.

However, I know what I didn't like! I hated _Great Expectations_ (I read it when I was 13 or 14 my freshman year of high school but that's pretty close) -- I reread it last year and loved it so much.

I do remember spending my summers in high school reading Shakespeare plays, though I don't know for sure which ones I read when I was 15)

Answer 4

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings--the movie left out some of the best material. Same for C.S. Lewis and The Chronicles of Narnia, but several of the books in that series are slow reading.

All time favorite, but I'm not sure if 15 is the right age for it, was Stranger in a Strange Land. But if you read it, be warned that there's a fair amount of sexist material in it that was not controversial when it was first printed, but clearly would be now. You'll need to overlook that to get the value of the book.

Answer 5

I don't know about being age 15 but some of my favorite books when I was younger and now are/was:

Younger:
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Bridge to Terabitha (SP)
My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews


Now:
Wasted by Marya Hornbatcher
Kay Scarpetta novels/series by Patricia Cornwell
Harry Potter books by J.K Rawling

Answer 6

The Sorrows of Young Werther by J. W. Goethe. It still is one of my favourite books, but i just dont read it any more. Im afraid I'll spoil teh impression I got about this book when I was 15.

Answer 7

The Outsiders by SE Hinton

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

Answer 8

It was very hard to get hold of books when I was 15.Since I was a book addict I was only allowed to go to the libaray on long holidays.My friends and cousins knew how desperate I was for books and used to give me their books.

Reilly's Luck by Louis L'Amour.Its a western.A young boy is abandoned by his own mother(she tells her boyfriend to kill him)The boy ends up with a gambler and he brings him up.Turns out to be the best gamble he ever made.The boy grows up and later kills the people who murdered the gambler.This is one of the greatest cowboy books ever.The Daybreakers,Fair blows the wind,Galloway are also good books by the same author.

Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas.The hero is Edmond Dantés, a young French sailor who, falsely accused of treason, is arrested on his wedding day and imprisoned in the island fortress of Château d'If. After staging a dramatic escape he sets out to discover the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo and catch up with his enemies. A novel of enormous tension and excitement, Monte Cristo is also a tale of obsession and revenge, with Dantés, believing himself to be an `Angel of Providence', pursuing his vengeance to the bitter end before realizing that he himself is a victim of fate.The author did a great job describing the emotions of the prisoner.Disbelief,denial,self pity,madness,apathy and finally hope.For God's sake don't see any of the movies based on the book.They don't do justice to the book.

Answer 9

My favorite book when I was fifteen was Gone With The Wind. I read many books then--as I do now--and I loved historical fiction. I had read many Eugenia Price books also. And everything by Janette Oke...but Gone With The Wind was the ultimate favorite.

Answer 10

Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman

Answer 11

Woman In The Wall