Ever Read a Forbidden Book as a Child?
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Ever Read a Forbidden Book as a Child?
Anyone else have any childhood experiences with "forbidden" books?
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I never snuck any books, but I do remember getting a book from my aunt for Christmas. My parents didn't totally trust her judgement and so the next day they told me that they had decided to pre-read the book for me, just to make sure that it was okay. I had to tell them that I had already read it. The book was fine, I have now let my kids read it, but that incident did teach me a great lesson. The lesson was that you don't have to agree with everything in a book. That not all books are worth reading. I was young enough at the time that I believed everything I read. I agreed with every author, and this incident taught me that I didn't have to. I thought more critically about that book than any other book I had ever read. Between my aunt and my parents, I received a great gift that year.
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For example when I was 9 or 10 I was on a horror kick and loved R. L. Stine Fear Street, Christopher Pike, and L.J. Smith as well as Mary Higgens Clark and more. My foster family did not like that I was reading these types of books and tried to ban then. Well when I was at school I would borrow them from the library, hide them in my book bag and take them home read them and sneak them back. Same thing with the public library.
The same thing happened when I was in a group home at age 13. I was on a romance kick... at this time light romance teen and up to Harlequin books and they did not approve. I finally had it written in my plan by my counselor that I was allowed to read any book I wanted because it was part of my cooping skills. Then I was allowed to read anything I wanted.
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Good for them. My children also read beyond their age and it does make a parent proud.MrsAmyM wrote: I also read a lot of Steven King at that age, but my parents were just impressed that I could read so fast, so they didn't care what I read.
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-- 19 May 2014, 01:12 --
That reminds me of when my cousins, sisters and I watched the first three Friday the 13th movies one Summer Saturday. I spent the night with my cousins, who lived in a single-wide trailer and I slept on the floor. The vents under the floor dripped all night long and all I could think about was the scene on the bunk beds where the blood from the top bunk had soaked through the mattress and dripping on the person on the bottom bunk. That was one of the worst nights of my life.anomalocaris wrote:Funny story to start it off. I was a very precocious reader, but raised very sheltered by strict parents. The books in my father's study were off limits. This seemed totally unfair so, while I almost never disobeyed my parents, I crept in there when no one was looking and stole away with one of the forbidden fruits. I was about six years old, and it happened that the one I stole away with was Poe. I read The Telltale Heart. Scared the CRAP outta me!! I was a precocious reader, but naturally at the age of 6 didn't understand all the nuances of everything I read, so I totally didn't get that the heart beating under the floor in the story was only in the narrator's mind. To me it was a real heart, and for all I knew, it might start beating under MY floor! In fact, I was pretty sure I could hear it. I was absolutely terrified, but I couldn't turn to anyone for reassurance, because that would mean confessing that I'd gone in my Dad's study and read one of those books, so I just had to stay awake and hope it didn't get me! To this day, I'm not a fan of Poe. I guess I'm still holding a grudge.
Anyone else have any childhood experiences with "forbidden" books?
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