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Day #35 of the 50 Day Book Challenge..
I'm behind, I know.
The prompt is.. A book set in high school
Because I despised high school, I tended to avoid books set there.
However, I was forced to read a few here and there for school.
Vision Quest by Terry Davies it was assigned for everyone to read in one of our classes in high school or junior high - can't remember.
I only remember the book because I saw the movie soon after. The book is better.
Vision Quest is a young adult novel by Terry Davis, published in 1979.[1] In first-person, present-tense narrative, it tells the story of a few months in the life of Louden Swain, a high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington who is cutting weight and working toward the state championships. The book takes its title from the vision quest ritual of some Native American Indian tribes, of going into the wilderness alone to 'discover who you are and who your people are and how you fit into the circle of birth and growth and death and rebirth.'[2] John Irving called it "the truest novel about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye."[3]
Vision Quest was made into a 1985 movie of the same title, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino, with a cameo appearance from Madonna as a night-club singer.
Mathew Modine was kind of miscast, I'd have cast Lou Diamond Phillips. And they kind of dropped the vision quest elements.
Here's the review by Siskel and Ebert of the movie, which again isn't like the book at all.
My favorite book that takes place in a high school is a weird dystopian one..that few have heard of..
The Girl Who Owned a City - the city in the title is the local high school.
The prompt is.. A book set in high school
Because I despised high school, I tended to avoid books set there.
However, I was forced to read a few here and there for school.
Vision Quest by Terry Davies it was assigned for everyone to read in one of our classes in high school or junior high - can't remember.
I only remember the book because I saw the movie soon after. The book is better.
Vision Quest is a young adult novel by Terry Davis, published in 1979.[1] In first-person, present-tense narrative, it tells the story of a few months in the life of Louden Swain, a high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington who is cutting weight and working toward the state championships. The book takes its title from the vision quest ritual of some Native American Indian tribes, of going into the wilderness alone to 'discover who you are and who your people are and how you fit into the circle of birth and growth and death and rebirth.'[2] John Irving called it "the truest novel about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye."[3]
Vision Quest was made into a 1985 movie of the same title, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino, with a cameo appearance from Madonna as a night-club singer.
Mathew Modine was kind of miscast, I'd have cast Lou Diamond Phillips. And they kind of dropped the vision quest elements.
Here's the review by Siskel and Ebert of the movie, which again isn't like the book at all.
My favorite book that takes place in a high school is a weird dystopian one..that few have heard of..
The Girl Who Owned a City - the city in the title is the local high school.
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I mean I read it when I was 14, but I don't remember that at all. I haven't read it since then. I think I did a passage from it in a Speech class in high school.
If it was? It went over my head. All I remember was a 14 year old girl struggling in a dystopian America. Her parents are dead, the food is getting spoiled, and she has to figure out how to make things work. So she puts in place a government in the local high school. It's more of a Lord of the Flies meets the Walking Dead, except with a female leader. They have warlords and everything. Kind of an early version of The 100.
If it were there, the political theme was most likely lost on my teenage self. Because I don't recall that at all.
I just re-read the plot on wiki - and yeah, don't remember most of it. I read it in 1982.