# Digest urth.v003.n004 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 Jul 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *24 Jul 1997, 18:01* > --------------- MESSAGE urth.v003.n004.1 --------------- > > From: John Bishop > Well, when I started to read _Pandora_by_Holly_Hollander_ > and found myself reading a monologue by an observant > but a bit alienated teenager, _Catcher_ instantly sprang > to mind. Well, yes, but you could cite any number of other books. Contemporary first-person YA novels (and even those for younger kids, like -Harriet the Spy-) all sound like that. I read a neat, not really for young people, one last year called -The Saskiad- that had a somewhat more sophisticated version of the same tone. (Much better than Holly Hollander, IMO.) -alga- ---