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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
You're not much older than me, Laga? I was probably a bit older than the target audience (which I think was younger than the twins) when I started them, and I seem to recall we're about the same age.
Not that I bought them or shit. Let's be clear. It was other people's copies I was reading.
I'm 36, and my best friend read a ton of them in 7th-8th grade, but I refused.
I'll be 42 in January. Holy crap.
A lot of girl readers, especially, read *up* pretty quickly, so by the time I was in seventh grade I was reading mostly Stephen King and other adult authors. I'm also 43, though, so I think was too old when those came out.
For series, I remember reading the Beany Malone books from the library, though. And Nancy Drew, of course.
I was reading Agatha Christie and books with sex in them.
I think the only series I read beforde high school was The Black Stallion. Oh and Narnia... Black Cauldron... OK I read a few.
I read VC Andrews in 7th grade. And one girl brought a Sidney Sheldon book to camp and would read the steamier passages to us at bedtime.
I'll be 42 in January. Holy crap.
Same here. They started publishing in 84, so we were 15. Totally in the sweet spot (NPI). I was reading up, down, left, right and centre. Whatever I could get my hands on. I read Emmanuelle at the same time I was reading Nancy Drew, and years before SVH.
By the time I was 15 I was pretty much on a diet of straight SFF.
The Wakefields are aliens. Don't doubt that.