Do you read " Go Ask Alice " when you were younger?

What about that song Timothy? In the end, the other people EAT Timothy. :scared1:

I'm trying to think which one you are talking about DISUNC? Alone Again, Naturally was him being stood up at the alter but I don't remember him going up into the tower. :scared1:
 
What was that song where they guy is going to the tower and throwin himself off, cause he got stood up at the alter??????? :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

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Alone again, Naturally, Gilbert O'Sullivan.... i think it might just be the saddest song ever
 
What about that song Timothy? In the end, the other people EAT Timothy. :scared1:

I'm trying to think which one you are talking about DISUNC? Alone Again, Naturally was him being stood up at the alter but I don't remember him going up into the tower. :scared1:

In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough
She's stood him up"
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
 

This is the first I've heard of the diary being a fake. I thought it was on display somewhere (her hometown, I thought) ...

I also kinda wondered if I could get a liquor store to deliver a box of booze (a la' Sarah) while claiming my mom was in the shower when I was a teenager.

Was Born Innocent the one where Linda Blair gets kidnapped and falls in love with her kidanpper (Martin Sheen?) who gets shot in the end?

No, that was "Sweet Hostage"...man, was Martin Sheen young in that one! "I've been betrayed!"
I am having a serious "After School Special" 70's kind of flashback now! I remember "The Girls of Huntington House", too. The movie was classic...Shirley Jones and Pamela Sue Anderson, wasn't it? That was back in the day, when made for TV movies were so bad, they were good. Memories....light the corners of my mind...misty water colored memories...of the way we were....:lmao:
 
No, that was "Sweet Hostage"...man, was Martin Sheen young in that one! "I've been betrayed!"
I am having a serious "After School Special" 70's kind of flashback now! I remember "The Girls of Huntington House", too. The movie was classic...Shirley Jones and Pamela Sue Anderson, wasn't it? That was back in the day, when made for TV movies were so bad, they were good. Memories....light the corners of my mind...misty water colored memories...of the way we were....:lmao:

ABC TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK....followed by Marcus Welby M.D.:cool2:
 
Oh, what a fabulous thread!!!

No one has mentioned my very favorite of the genre - Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones. His name was BOswell JOhnson Jones and her first name was July, like the month. They got pregnant and in typical teen drama book fashion, were punished by having the baby die. But, they did end up getting married and at the end they were going to live in student housing so Bo Jo could go to college after all.

Oh, God, I cried my eyes out everytime I read it, which was about 1000 separate readings during my early teen years. It was magnificent....

I loved Forever, Go Ask Alice, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Also I was totally into all the troubled children helped by caring social worker books, especially all the ones by Torey Hayden. As a matter of fact, I still read one of those occasionally!! Another favorite was Karen and With Love From Karen. I know I read them each at least a dozen times.
 
After-School Specials, OMG:rotfl2: What would we think today if our kids asked to sit in front of the tube every afternoon and watch this crappola?

Anways, anyone remember "Summerhill"? It was a non-fiction book about a high school in Britain I believe where the theory was that kids without ANY rules at all would do better than those under the supervison of parents/teachers, etc. I can't remember much about it except for BEGGING, and I mean begging, my parents to let me go to school there, lol. Yeah, right, they barely had enough money to buy my "first day of school" shoes each year and here I want to go to a boarding school without rules.

Well, it was worth a try, wasn't it? :thumbsup2
 
Oh, I remember Summerhill - Ihad to read it for a college class I took.
 
! Another favorite was Karen and With Love From Karen. .

Wow, Thanks. I read these books too and have thought about them over the years. I never could remember what the names were.
 
We had joy we had fun, we had Seasons in the Sun.......

What was that song where they guy is going to the tower and throwin himself off, cause he got stood up at the alter??????? :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

I got a brand new pair of roller skates....

Gilbert O'Sullivan ~ Alone again (naturally)
 
If you were captivated by Jonathan L. Seagull - check out Richard Bach's Illusions. I read it in the early 80s and it continues to linger in my mind....

Here's what amazon says about it:

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders...until he meets Donald Shimoda--former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar....
 
Wow, Thanks. I read these books too and have thought about them over the years. I never could remember what the names were.

They were written by her mom, Marie Killilea. Wonder whatever happened to that family? I read them so many times I felt like they were my family....

I also loved the Cheaper by the Dozen/Belles on Their Toes books by the Gilbreath family, and Who Gets the Drumstick? the story of the Beardsley family on which the Lucille Ball/Henry Fonda movie Yours, Mine and Ours was based.
 
They were written by her mom, Marie Killilea. Wonder whatever happened to that family? I read them so many times I felt like they were my family....

I also loved the Cheaper by the Dozen/Belles on Their Toes books by the Gilbreath family, and Who Gets the Drumstick? the story of the Beardsley family on which the Lucille Ball/Henry Fonda movie Yours, Mine and Ours was based.

I was looking on the books at amazon and some people said that the parents were married until they died in the 1990's...Karen is alive and wellat 62 and living in Virginia
 
I'm a 40 yr young librarian, and I have to tell you that my teenage girl readers STILL love most of the books mentioned! I can't keep Alice on the shelf (stolen, bwahaha), BoJo Jones, Karen, Rose Garden, etc. Amityville Horror and Sybil still scare them to death (are they REAL they ask me?!?), and no one has mentioned that series that still goes on even long after the original author's death...Flowers in the Attic. There was something "real" about the "unreality" in 70s teen fiction (proably because the whole concept of books written specifically for this age range was in it's infancy). Makes me nostalgic ("we had seasons in the sun...")...
Terri
 
I was looking on the books at amazon and some people said that the parents were married until they died in the 1990's...Karen is alive and wellat 62 and living in Virginia

Wow, I just took a lovely stroll through my childhood! Thanks guys!

I loved the Karen books too, read them over and over. I was an only child and I loved reading books about big families. Then, of course there were all those "tragic circumstance" books and movies. I wasn't allowed to watch TV after dinner during the school year so I LOVED the afterschool specials.

Anybody remember "Summer of My German Soldier"? That was another huge book in middle school. I remember us passing them around on the bus because if the Sisters ever found us with Judy Blume, SE Hinton or even GOA they'd call our parents!!
 
Well, I missed a lot of those books, I have no clue WHERE I was that I never heard of half of them. :confused3

The Summer of my German Soldier is still required reading now, my girls had it on their summer reading lists when they were a little younger.

I do remember reading The Outsiders more than a few times and just crying each time I read it. We had to read it in school and all the girls were sobbing and the boys were all thinking we were a little nuts.
 
DD13 had The Outsiders as one of her summer reading books - she had to read it and then make a poster with 10 slang phrases and their equivalents today. Next week she's writing an essay about it.

Oh, my gosh - Flowers in the Attic!!! Now there's one I haven't thought about in a long time - that was the first time I realized you could - well - with your brother!!!! What a creepy and gross series - no wonder teen girls ate them up!!!!
 
I am having a serious "After School Special" 70's kind of flashback now! I remember "The Girls of Huntington House", too. The movie was classic...Shirley Jones and Pamela Sue Anderson, wasn't it? That was back in the day, when made for TV movies were so bad, they were good.

The ABC Movie of the Week was my favorite program in the 1970's! Some of those movies were award winners and among the most successful programming on TV.

A lot of those movies coming out on DVD now - The Girl Most Likely To starring Stockard Channing; Trilolgy of Terror starring Karen Black; Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring starring Sally Field; plus all of those movies I have on bootleg DVDs. Some of them are sappy, but quite a few of them scared me to death when I was watching them as a teen.

BTW - The Girls From Huntington House starred Shirley Jones, Pamela Sue Martin (Nancy Drew) and Sissy Spacek.

There are a couple of books available on Amazon.com that list all the made for TV movies from that era with plot synopsis.
 












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