Teen boy starts out doing modeling for flyers, then representing a department store, then a movie.
I loved Stupid Boy but that wasn't it. This one is unfinished and likely in the archives. Another scene was the MC saved a girl trapped on the side of a mountain and the father bought him a car. Another is he and a girl were in vegas and a famous show person drugged and tried to molest her. MC broke his jaw.
Actually also reminds me of a series of books by a former author on this site (gwresearch/Geoff Wolak), but not on this site.
Yes - didn't realize it was back here
Ah, only a part is back here.
The original story titles were:
Ninth Grade 1958-1959 (including My Summer Vacation 1958); Summer Vacation 1959; Tenth Grade 1959. He removed all, split them into seven books with significantly more but shorter chapters to be sold on the big river and reposted the first three as one story here on SOL. The sequel to Tenth Grade 1959 is Oxford University numbered as Book 8 and was here on SOL for only a few weeks.
The reposted Book 3 ends with Chapter 47 at about ⅔ of Ninth Grade 1958–1959 at the end of its Chapter 26!
BTW, the latest book in the series seems to be #16 "First Steps", published 2022.
('seems to be', because I needed two different searches on Amazon's German web site to find it, the first returned only 15 books and and the page for Book 15 claims the series consists of only 15 books. The page of "First Steps" – while in the title line it's named Book 16 – fails to mention in the book properties it's part of a series.)
HM.
BTW, the latest book in the series seems to be #16 "First Steps", published 2022.
I downloaded a pdf in 2023 with the title The Richard Jackson Saga Book 16 First Steps...52 chapters, lists the other books in the series...probably the same book...
I still think the first few he posted here on sol back before he put the on the river site were better than what he put there for sale...sadly I didn't download the first 3 original stories he posted here...I think it was 3 anyways...
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I downloaded a pdf in 2023 with the title The Richard Jackson Saga Book 16 First Steps...52 chapters, lists the other books in the series...probably the same book...
I still think the first few he posted here on sol back before he put the on the river site were better than what he put there for sale...sadly I didn't download the first 3 original stories he posted here...I think it was 3 anyways...
First Steps is indeed the last book. The book numbers are not consistent between early and late versions.
The books on SOL and on Amazon are very close (I did compare at one point). I think the ones on SOL may be more enjoyable because they show the early history of Rick, a true coming of age. The later ones show him as a young, successful adult, which inevitably have a different tone.
Initially.
I was reading that (on AssTr, I think) when it was first being posted, but after around 100 (wild-assed guess) chapters, decided that the author had run out of ideas a while before.
He wrote initially that he would post chapters until it stopped being fun, I felt that he had reached that point.
YMMV and all that.
I had the same issue, as after that many chapters, I eventually lost interest and quit reading, apparently when the story was somewhere in the 90 chapter range.
I prefer stories which have a clear story arc (begging, middle and end, with a natural progression in the story arc). His were often a bit … meandering at times, without a clear progression.