Okay, so here's the thing. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of these stories. Even the fantastic stories, which a lot of them are. This is nothing personal to authors, these are just my rantings.

Here goes nothing:

Buck's is a house. NOT A BAR, NOT A MOTEL. It's a house. It's Buck Merrill's house. He just has parties a lot.

Girls in the sixties didn't wear hoodies and baggy jeans. Did you read about ONE girl in The Outsiders that actually wore jeans? No. They were all mentioned wearing skirts.

When describing the characters, don't steal from the book. Be creative. If I have to read one more time about how Soda has a finely drawn, sensitive face that manages to be reckless and thoughtfull at the same time, I think I will puke.

PROOF READ. There are so many stories with so many spelling, grammer, and puncuation errors that it is driving me crazy. PROOF READ.

Why the hell would any girl who JUST met seven scary, tough-looking guys take a shower in their house?

Even if Johnny DID get beaten up a lot, it doesn't mean he's a scardy cat. Johnny is still a tough kid. Stop making him a wimp.

There aren't any train tracks that seperate the East side from the West side.

Tim Shepard isn't a philosphical, kind, common sense type of guy. He's like Dally...but worse.

Soda has BLOND HAIR. Ponyboy has REDDISH BLOND hair. Dally has BLOND hair. I don't care if in the movie they all have brown hair. The book came first.

I'm sorry, but I don't think Darry would just welcome some kid to live with him, and enroll the kid in school, and pay for food and all that junk.

Stop making Darry prohibit perfect strangers from doing things.

Why does every girl have to sex when she's freaking 14? That's just wrong. I don't think girls that age were thinking about that. I really don't.

None of the guys are cry-babies. I can't stand it when someone writes about Ponyboy or Johnny or Soda crying about something stupid.

I'm not completely sure, but I don't think the Socs beat up girls.

Why does everybody take showers eighty times a day?

That's all for now. If I think of any more...I'll probably post them. Please feel free to flame...but you probably were going to anyway. ;)