Ever Read a Forbidden Book as a Child?
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OMG, I found this in my library and read it behind my parent's back! I had forgotten about it...lolALynnPowers wrote:I once took a Children's Literature class, where we read the book "Forever" by Judy Blume, and I was surprised to see that this book was once forbidden for many of the older students in my class when they were younger, because of the young sexual content. But they would all sneak it and pass it around anyway.
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We often lived way out of town in the middle of nowhere and depended on the county bookmobile to bring us books every three weeks, my older sisters would take me since my mother was usually working, mom had to sign a special paper giving me permission to checkout any book I wanted from the bookmobile. About the only book I really remember my mother having some concerns about me reading was when I was 11 or 12 and tried to read Helter Skelter...she was probably right on that one.
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But a funny true story...
When I was maybe 14-15 I was in puberty and my fascination with girls and sex was of course intense. A pal at high school, I still remember his name, Jimmy Stafford, had this "sexy" paperback book, which was in fact a trashy and poorly written racy novel. I forget the book's title but I have given it the putative title which is the symbol of all trashy books of its type, "Nurses for Sale" which encompasses all the goofy bad sexy books you've ever seen.
Anyway, it was my turn to borrow Nurses for Sale and I was in my room, at my desk, reading it, paying special attention to the turned down pages where the "good stuff" was. My Dad happened past my open door, glanced in, and I shoved the book beneath my history notes.
Dad came into my room, "What are you reading?" "I'm doing my homework." "No, you were reading a book. May I see it?"
And so I reluctantly handed Dad the book, and was terrified -- Dad would rip it to shreds of course and then Jimmy Stafford would kill me. But after thumbing thru the book a big, Dad just handed the book back to me and walked out. I was of course perplexed.
About 10 min later, Dad came back into my room, carrying a big scuffed hardcover book, obviously old. He said, "This is my fault. I know you're old enough to read about sex and so on, but do us both a favor, and don't read junk, okay? Read something like this instead." And he handed me the book.
It was Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
Before leaving the room, Dad said, "This book does not leave your room. Do not take it to school. Do not share it with your friends." and as he was walking out, "And don't tell your Mom."
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My Dad was a lifelong fan of SF and he'd cut his teeth in the old 30s pulp era with the Amazing Tales SF mag by Campbell and others, and I was reading them voraciously as kid. I'd of course read Poe and others from my Dad's library at home. Then I discovered Lovecraft and was scared for the first time for real, reading about the Cthulhu mythos. What fun!
My kiddie pals were "bored" by books and when they were playing tag I would be reading Tales of Tarzan and so on.
But thanks to my very fine parents, no book was forbidden to me, at least by them. It was a few years later, in high school, that I had to receive their written permission to give a book report of Faulkner or Hemingway, and later, that book of banned books, Catcher in the Rye.
Likewise, rearing my 2 fine stepsons, my wife and I had signed a permission report for their school, that they could read or give reports on any book. I remember receiving a phone call from my older boy's teacher, asking if I was serious. "You mean ANY book?" she said. "Yes, any book, without restrictions of any kind." And the boys turned out fine.
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I remember my uncle having a collection of the old tabloid type adventure magazines like Argosy, True Detective and Mens Adventure with those covers featuring scantilly clad maidens in distress being attacked by Nazis, monsters, and the occasional space alien.
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When I was admonished by a teacher for bringing a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs' (creator of Tarzan) Princess of Mars, because the flashy cover art displayed a slightly scantily clad Princess under attack by a monster, I complained to my Dad. He didn't challenge the teacher but he told me that some other kids in my class were perhaps a little backward, and might be upset or confused by this, and that maybe I ought to keep that book at home.