I'm 36, and my best friend read a ton of them in 7th-8th grade, but I refused.
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Jesse - Oct 20, 2010 11:29:12 am PDT #12646 of 28296
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:30:55 am PDT #12647 of 28296
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I'll be 42 in January. Holy crap.
Amy - Oct 20, 2010 11:31:03 am PDT #12648 of 28296
Because books.
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.
Jesse - Oct 20, 2010 11:32:41 am PDT #12649 of 28296
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was reading Agatha Christie and books with sex in them.
Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:33:14 am PDT #12650 of 28296
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I think the only series I read beforde high school was The Black Stallion. Oh and Narnia... Black Cauldron... OK I read a few.
Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:33:59 am PDT #12651 of 28296
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:39:04 am PDT #12652 of 28296
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Laga - Oct 20, 2010 11:41:43 am PDT #12653 of 28296
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
By the time I was 15 I was pretty much on a diet of straight SFF.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2010 11:43:20 am PDT #12654 of 28296
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Wakefields are aliens. Don't doubt that.
brenda m - Oct 20, 2010 11:44:42 am PDT #12655 of 28296
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I'm 40 next week (eep) and they definitely weren't on my radar until I was past the age range (even if I had been reading appropriately to my age range).