The books we read in our teen age.

Cristiane F.
by: Christiane F.
genre: Biographies & Memoirs

This book was written about 20 years ago and is dramatically present! No matters if this true story is set in Berlin; you can read the city where you live in, instead; and unfortunately it will work. Christiane F. tells us her story as a teen-age heroin addicted, her numerous rises and falls, and the way she at last succeded in detoxication. This book does not teach how to avoid the abyss, because she fell into; but it is a crude and scary depiction of the abyss, and this should be enough! We recommend this book to both children and parents.
(this review is ©1998 Amazon.com)

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You can find Christiane F.'s book as "Christiane F.: An Autobiography of a Child Prostitute and Heroin Addict", too.
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Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band
by: Enrico Brizzi (US translation by Stash Luczkiv)
genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Catcher in the Rye
by: J.D. Salinger
genre: Literature & Fiction

Since his debut in 1951 as "The Catcher in the Rye", Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them." His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. (this review is ©1998 Amazon.com)

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