Late Boomers
are not late bloomers
we're just the largest
and most underconsidered segment of the boomer demographic.
(Psst... i think it's 'cause "they" were scared of us
after the way our older brothers and sisters acted in
the 60s.)
Some of the things that shaped us when we were still young and impressionable:
Art
Books
Love Story, Erich
Segal
The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
The Crystal Cave,
Mary Stewart
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex but Were Afraid To Ask,
David Reuben, M.D.
The Sensuous Woman, "J"
Up the Organization, Robert Townsend
Rod McKuen
Arthur Hailey
The Exorcist, William P. Blatty
The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
The Winds of War, Herman Wouk
The Other, Thomas Tryon
The Sensous Man, "M"
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris
Any Woman Can!, David Reuben, M.D.
Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Odessa File, Frederick Forsyth
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
The Hollow Hills, Mary Stewart
I'm O.K., You're O.K., Thomas Harris
The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort
Sybil
Centennial, James A. Michener
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Jaws, Peter Benchley
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
Something Happened, Joseph Heller
All the President's Men, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
4. More
Joy: A Lovemaking Companion to The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort
Carlos A. Castaneda
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
Curtain, Agatha Christie
Shogun, James Clavell
Winning Through Intimidation, Robert Ringer
The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski
Sylvia Porter's Money Book, Sylvia Porter
Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More!, Kurt Vonnegut
The Final Days, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Roots, Alex Haley
Your Erroneous Zones, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Passages: The Predictable Crises of Adult Life, Gail Sheehy
The Grass ls Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Erma Bombeck
Blind Ambition: The White House Years, John Dean
The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, Shere Hite
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach
Beggarman, Thief, Irwin Shaw
Delta of Venus: Erotica, Anaïs Nin
Looking Out for #1, Robert Ringer
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence,
Carl Sagan
Carlos Castaneda
War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
Fools Die, Mario Puzo
Scruples, Judith Krantz
Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
Gnomes, Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet
The Complete Book of Running, James Fixx
Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford
RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Richard Nixon (Remember the "Don't
buy books from crooks!" shirts?
Faeries, Brian Froud and Alan Lee
ln Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Theodore H. White
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
The Dead Zone, Stephen King
The Last Enchantment, Mary Stewart
Smiley's People, John Le Carré
How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Howard J. Ruff
Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin
Alvin Toffler
The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving
Cujo, Stephen King
An Indecent Obsession, Colleen McCullough
Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith
Masquerade, Kit Williams
Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean Auel
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies,
ThomasJ. Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.
Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, John Naisbitt
The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Remember Joan Jet and the Black Hearts?
Please don't write me about this....
can you spell satire?
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