"Stay gold, Ponyboy..." - the genius of S.E. Hinton

JimmyJazz and I were just discussing the genius of teen lit queen S.E. Hinton. If you are of "a certain age" you too probably read one or more of these. For me, I know I will never ever drop acid after her vivid description of M&M's bad trip. :scared:

So, what's your favorite S E Hinton book?

The book still makes me cry.

If I watch the movie I alternately cry and pant after those hotties!!


Does that make me bad?

I never read the others.

but I have a real soft spot for Rumble Fish. I read through a whole mess of her stuff when I was 9 and still remember a whole lot of it.

I'm with you.

they hold up today as more thna "young adult" novels: Death, drug abuse, hopelessness, redemption... it's all in those books. If I ever write HALF as well and have HALF as much impact on a reader then I can consider myself successful.

I felt changed after I read her books.

how the hell did i miss that?

The Outsiders movie? Pretty good. TWTTIN? Not so much. They changed the ending.

either that, or I was naive about hints at it in the book, because I was watching the movie and going "WTF? They never had sex in the book!"
My brother disagreed with me, and I never did re-read the book.

:cry:

I was 12 when I read the book, and found the characters of Tex and his older brother Mason to be interesting and more believable than the "Socs" and "Greasers" in the Outsiders.

It blew my mind when I found out S.E. Hinton was a chick.
Just blew my mind. Writing about your Outsiders and such.
Awesome.

Of course that's the only book I've read of S.E Hinton

-- kids to read her novels, read Frost, and consider poetry as a Big theme in the lives of human beings, I humbly thank Ms. Hinton and hereby offer to cut her grass through Labor Day, 2027.

-- yet another good post like this one, it's just that this one rings a lot of good bells for a lot of us.

It's a real lift for me and I'm glad you set it down on the table for us tonight. Thank you.

"Nature's first green is gold..."

Thank you. That's really kind of you to say. Send some love JimmyJazz's way too - this all came out of a discussion she and I had over our youthful obsession with Ms Hinton. Oh - and Dolo Amber, who threw the quote out there earlier tonight.


Did I just write an acceptance speech for a nice post? :eyes:

A thanks to all three of you, then -- Dolo amber and JimmyJazz also.

I didn't even know about the other books.

it made me want to drop acid.


<edit because I'm trippin' and can't spell read>

I *know* what's going to happen in The Outsiders. I've read the book a dozen times and have seen the movie at least four times. I KNOW what happens.

I still cry like a baby.

What two things did ponyboy have on his mind when leaving the movie theater?

I loved you before, but I love you even more now :loveya:

:loveya:

:eyes:

but I loved the other three. :hi:

Although I remember the other three. She was into violent downer endings wasn't she?

I work for Warner Bros. in the feature re-mastering department as a sound editor. At this moment, I am working on the new director's cut of this movie!!!!

:thumbsup:

Well...sort of. I grew up in Tulsa where "The Outsiders", "Rumblefish" and another Hinton book to movie called "Tex" were filmed.

Tex and The Outsiders were set in Tulsa where Hinton grew up. She was a friend of one of my teachers and came to my 6th grade english class and gave a talk. It was a real big deal because it was right about the time the Outsiders came out.

Movie wise Outsiders is awesome and Tex is highly underrated because of its slightly campy quality. The Outsiders also connected with my parents b/c they went to high school at one of the schools featured in the movie and remember the whole sosh-greaser thing well. I think both movies are pretty close to the books which i also like.

in school. Needless to say I didn't enjoy it.

but never read any of the books. I was reading Vonnegut.