Brendan Strejcek has me thinking about what I read as a kid.
Brendan Strejcek has me thinking about what I read as a kid.
Looking back, did you read any books you were too young for? My parents didn't police what I was reading at all, which is how I ended up reading this series at 13.
Sex, violence, cannibals getting boners before they killed people...this series had it all. Really, I just liked the cover. This was my intro to Frazetta and pulp fiction long before I knew what it was.
i read the gunslinger the summer i was 10 or 11. and while it's tamer than the books that would follow it, i don't think my wife would let our kids read it at that age! :)
ReplyDeleteMy wife read Flowers in the Attic when she was a kid. Her super catholic parents had already read it, and they still let her read it. When she was like 11.
ReplyDeleteThis all makes me feel weird now that I'm a parent.
I read some Piers Anthony book which talked about Sexuality (in general terms, nothing graphic) prior to having gotten the "talk" on the subject from my parents. I was left primarily to my own devices on the assumption that it was probably better for me to read than to not read.
ReplyDeleteSounds like perfect fare for a 13 year old to me.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about my OWN kids but,generally speaking, many great books work better if read by children before they are old enough.
ReplyDeleteI can't recall any books I was too young for (though I'm sure I read a few), but I can't believe my parents let me watch A Clockwork Orange when I was 13. It didn't warp or scar me, but...damn.
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