Next Day in Book Challenge...
Dec. 1st, 2020 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatBecause I have no idea what day I'm on...in this seemingly endless challenge.
The prompt is A book that came out the year you were born
I've recognized more than I expected, and had actually read two of them.
But I'm picking my favorite...which I fell in love with in the Junior High, when I snagged it from my brother's room. My mother had bought my brother the book - and I stole it, devoured it, and read everything in the series. I also went to the movie by myself in 1983. (Didn't know anyone else who'd read the books until I was much much older.)
The Outsiders.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school.[1] Hinton was 18 when the book was published.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "greasers" and the upper-class "Socs" (pronounced /ˈsoʊʃɪz/—short for Socials). The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.
The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book.
A film adaptation was produced in 1983, and a short-lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off. A stage adaptation was written by Christopher Sergel and published in 1990.
I never saw the television series or the stage adaptation. Francis Ford Coopola did the movie, and bought the rights to all of Hinton's books, which he adapted. I was in the habit of reading whatever I could get my grubby little hands on as a child. Once I figured out how to read - I couldn't be stopped. I think I read every book on my brothers shelves, on mine, on my parents shelves, and what I could check out from the library. Kindles are a life-saver for me.
The movie is notable for being the first film roles or notable roles for several up and coming future film stars - Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez are all in minor roles, Diane Lane (this was among her first major film roles as a kid), Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe...with C Thomas Howell, Dillon and Ralph Maccio in the leads (and we've seen little of them since).
Per Wiki:
The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film is an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton and was released on March 25, 1983 in the United States. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film.
The film is noted for its cast of up-and-coming stars, including C. Thomas Howell (who garnered a Young Artist Award), Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane. The film helped spark the Brat Pack genre of the 1980s. Both Lane and Dillon went on to appear in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish; Dillon and Estevez also starred in Tex (1982). Estevez went on to write and star in That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), the only Hinton film adaptation not to star Dillon.
The prompt is A book that came out the year you were born
I've recognized more than I expected, and had actually read two of them.
But I'm picking my favorite...which I fell in love with in the Junior High, when I snagged it from my brother's room. My mother had bought my brother the book - and I stole it, devoured it, and read everything in the series. I also went to the movie by myself in 1983. (Didn't know anyone else who'd read the books until I was much much older.)
The Outsiders.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school.[1] Hinton was 18 when the book was published.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "greasers" and the upper-class "Socs" (pronounced /ˈsoʊʃɪz/—short for Socials). The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.
The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book.
A film adaptation was produced in 1983, and a short-lived television series appeared in 1990, picking up where the movie left off. A stage adaptation was written by Christopher Sergel and published in 1990.
I never saw the television series or the stage adaptation. Francis Ford Coopola did the movie, and bought the rights to all of Hinton's books, which he adapted. I was in the habit of reading whatever I could get my grubby little hands on as a child. Once I figured out how to read - I couldn't be stopped. I think I read every book on my brothers shelves, on mine, on my parents shelves, and what I could check out from the library. Kindles are a life-saver for me.
The movie is notable for being the first film roles or notable roles for several up and coming future film stars - Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez are all in minor roles, Diane Lane (this was among her first major film roles as a kid), Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe...with C Thomas Howell, Dillon and Ralph Maccio in the leads (and we've seen little of them since).
Per Wiki:
The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film is an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton and was released on March 25, 1983 in the United States. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film.
The film is noted for its cast of up-and-coming stars, including C. Thomas Howell (who garnered a Young Artist Award), Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane. The film helped spark the Brat Pack genre of the 1980s. Both Lane and Dillon went on to appear in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish; Dillon and Estevez also starred in Tex (1982). Estevez went on to write and star in That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), the only Hinton film adaptation not to star Dillon.