Who read "Candy" when a teenager?

[bobthedrummer]

I did, it was passed down from upperclassmates. I laughed all the way through it, then. It might be worth another read in terms of sociological merit today-lol.

I want to see the movie again, but "Candy" is hard to find in video.
Anyone know, or remember the flick that had Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Astin, Ringo and Sugar Ray Robinson and a lot of other folks in it? It was anti-war of course.

[Wilber_Stool]

1. Yeah, I do remember seeing it

but I really can't remember any thing about it. Was Ringo a WW I soldier? Shit. Everything back then is still a little blurry to me.

[bobthedrummer]

3. Ringo played a Mexican gardener who lost his virginity to Candy, his

psycho-biker sisters sought vengeance against Candy as their brother could no longer be accepted for education as a priest, which was the family's goal.

:smoke:

[jimshoes]

2. I bought the soundtrack album from that movie

and listened to it about a month ago. Child of the Universe: The Byrds, Ascension to Virginity was a fairly catchy tune also. The movie came out in about 1968 and one of the main reasons I went to see it (I was 16) was to see a little sex and nudity. The movie was just OK, not great but I loved the soundtrack. The plot was about a young and fairly hot girl coming of age. I don't know if it was anti-war, but it might have been.

[bobthedrummer]

4. The book was a wild and funny take on social mores and Sigmund Freud.

The movie was definitely anti-war.

:smoke:

[bobthedrummer]

5. OK, I admit that reading Candy as a teenager was a seminal experience

for me:9

So was The Story of O, Autobiography of a Flea, and Anais Nin's work.

LOL.