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books i read too young... and yours?

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tyaca · 26/02/2008 23:36

ooohhh.... satanic verses & unbearable lightness of being are the first ones to spring to my mind. aged about 13. actually, maybe the title shouldnt be "books i read too young" but should instead be "books i only persevered with because i was so young... nowadays i would not be othered after page 4".

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purpleduck · 27/02/2008 00:06

tyaca, maybe cataline's gran was using it as a HOW TO manual...

I read Valley Of The Dolls when i was 11 ish. The rape scene has stayed with me > My mom didn't really notice what I read....

Oh, read lots of Danielle Steele books at about the same age. My eldest sister loaned them to me. WHAT WAS SHE THINKING!!! Luckily I realised that not all wonderful relationships come with a filthy rich/gorgeous/ and generally perfect man....

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tyaca · 26/02/2008 23:57

cataline what on earth was your grandma doing with the virginia andrews books? i can well imagine why an eight year old would be gripped, but granny? thats just dark. looking back on my parents childhood supervisin of my reading, i'm a teensy bit shocked they were so militant about enid blyton but let my flowers in the attic phase go on for as long as it did...

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Alambil · 26/02/2008 23:57

ohhh I know - Dead Man Walking; read when I was about 13/14 ... my mum wanted to ban it from me but I said I'd just skip the graphic parts.

Read Flowers in the Attick et al when I was about 14/15 and loved them...

I was too virtuous as a kid/ too sheltered to be allowed access to "adult" literature - am boring!

BananaPudding · 26/02/2008 23:54

Pet Cemetery....

Cataline · 26/02/2008 23:52

Flowers in the attic and the subsequent ones whatever they were called. I took them off my Grandma's bookshelf. My mum found them in my bedroom and went mental. I was 8

S1ur · 26/02/2008 23:52

Wild swans.

I am still too young for that book I read about Rwanda genocide.

ChicktoriaPeckham · 26/02/2008 23:51

"lose the ring! chuck it! look at all the grief its giving you..."
ROFL!

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tyaca · 26/02/2008 23:50

at boysarelike dogs... i was forced to cinema to see first film. the only reason i didnt walk out was cause someone else had paid for me. that and the fact we were in an out of town cinema and he was driving. all i could think was "lose the ring! chuck it! look at all the grief its giving you..."

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 26/02/2008 23:47

I know, I know !

ChicktoriaPeckham · 26/02/2008 23:46

The Long Walk by Stephen King w/a Richard Bachman.
I didn't sleep for months!

ChicktoriaPeckham · 26/02/2008 23:46

1984

ChicktoriaPeckham · 26/02/2008 23:46

Animal Farm

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tyaca · 26/02/2008 23:45

lord of the flies changed my world view forever. and not in a good way.

at no age have i ever thought that tolkein might be a good way to spend a single hour of my life

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JossStick · 26/02/2008 23:43

Tom Bombadil is without argument the coolist person in LOTR.

That is all!

sushistar · 26/02/2008 23:40

Lord of the Flies. It totally freaked me out.

BoysAreLikeDogs · 26/02/2008 23:39

Hmmm

The Foundation Trilogy

All Tolkien, should have stopped at The Hobbit, stupid farking Tom Bombadil blighted a few months of my teenage years

Forever Amber (pilfered from my Mum)

There's more, I'll have a think

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