And everybody can take their heads out of the gutter now.

When I was a kid we had the book Garfield: His Nine Lives, QUITE different from the cartoon, several lives had to be rewritten to be suitable for kids...I always looked at the pictures but my mother told me not to read several of the stories in the book. Well, one of my favorites to look at was Babes and Bullets...and when I was 9, I finally took the book out and read Babes and Bullets...Garfield transformed into a...what's the word for a cat that's shaped like a human and walks like a human, and dresses like a human? Cussing, a woman married to a priest (huh?), whiskey...QUITE different from the comic book version of Babes and Bullets which was basically a comic format of how they did the cartoon. I've always loved that story, both versions, but I'll always fondly remember the more 'adult' version.

Anybody else got something to add?

The first "adult" book I read as a kid was E. Lynn Harris' And This Too Shall Pass. It wasn't a sexually themed novel, but had sexual situations in it.

Too Kill a Mockingbird. Booooring

I disagree, I found Lord of the Flies to be boooooring.

Ordinary People.

RedBedroom wrote:

Ordinary People.

By any chance would that be the same Ordinary People that they made that movie with Mary Tyler Moore and whoever else, from? A guy drowns and his whole family has to deal with it?

The first adult book I ever was was Carrie in 1975. I was in the 6th grade at the time.

tmontyb wrote:

The first adult book I ever was was Carrie in 1975. I was in the 6th grade at the time.

Good book.

Supernova wrote:

Good book.

It really is a good book. The film is great also. The book wasn't scary to me (maybe I didn't really get it) but the film scared the crap out of me. I was upset that Miss Collins (Desjardin in the book) was killed by that backboard and that last scene where Carrie's hand came out of the the rubble was too much my 11 year old mind. I asked my younger sister if I could sleep in her room that night after seeing the movie. She brings it up in company from time to time, LOL.

tmontyb wrote:

It really is a good book. The film is great also. The book wasn't scary to me (maybe I didn't really get it) but the film scared the crap out of me. I was upset that Miss Collins (Desjardin in the book) was killed by that backboard and that last scene where Carrie's hand came out of the the rubble was too much my 11 year old mind. I asked my younger sister if I could sleep in her room that night after seeing the movie. She brings it up in company from time to time, LOL.

Now that IS scary, LOL!

One of the first was The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah. Soon after that I started reading Donald Goines. Needless to say I was never the same again.

I don't think I ever heard of them. What do they write?

Nystyle709 wrote:

He's been in and out of jail and was actually an addict. So he basically wrote novels from experience.

Kind of like Oliver Stone and Scarface.

Supernova wrote:

I don't think I ever heard of them. What do they write?

Well, what he said I guess. Haha. Donald Goines books are graphic. You should look him up, interesting life. I've read a few DG novels, I really liked Black Girl Lost. Never Die Alone was made into a movie with DMX and Michael Ealy. I heard another of his books was made into a horrible low budget thing. I liked the Sister Souljah book for the most part at the time.