Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman

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The Harry Potter books

Where the Golden Apples Grow, Kage Baker

Theodore Boone, Kid Detective, John Grisham

Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart, Mathias Malzieu

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

I love boy stories! I'm not so swift on the ones authored by women though, because no matter how hard they try, they will never truly know what it's like to be a boy! and that's why you'll probably never find a boy book written by a woman like ones by King, Card, or Golding! As far as I'm concerned they just don't have the ability to capture what it is like to be a boy. they also tend to be too politically correct for my tastes! I'm not saying that women don't write good stories about boys, I like the 1st Potter book, it's just not one of my favorites!

The very first boy book I read was called Where the Red Fern Grows! I was attracted to the story, a friend loaned me the book back in the 1980s, I was amazed at how an author could capture the essence of what a boy on a farm in Oklahoma in the early 20th century, went through to obtain and raise two Red-bone Blood Hounds! I was so impressed with the story that I read it another 3 time that year! to this day I still remember some of the details of the story. I'm convinced the story is most likely based on Rawls' own childhood, you can feel the passion and love in his writing for those two dogs! The story is set about 15 miles up the Illinois river from Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Wilson Rawls also wrote a book called Summer of the Monkeys! an interesting read for anyone! 

josephk wrote on 23. Aug 2017 at 03:15:



I know what you mean. . .

diogenes wrote on 23. Aug 2017 at 11:02:


You won't regret it.

Stephen King's The Body, is a very good read! I saw the movie several times before I read the novel, and as I read, I envisioned the actors from the movie into the story, same as I did with Where the Red Fern Grows! In pictured James Whitmore AS Grandpa, and all the other actors as their respective characters. I like to do it this way, for a couple of reasons, one, I get to mentally place the actors that played the characters, in them as I read! And two, You most likely won't find very many movies that are based on books, that have absolutely every detail of the book in them! so like I've stated before, I won't read the book a movie is based on, before I see the movie, because for me, it would spoil the experience, because I'd watch it with the expectation of everything from the book being in it! I did try it the other way around, so I know this is how I like to do it.