How do you feel about violent YA novels?
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flea - Jan 15, 2014 9:58:22 am PST #21946 of 28359
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I was reading wildly inappropriate things when I was not much older that Casper. My mother was sort of strict about movies and TV shows, but she never said no to a book. Although she wasn't buying them for me either. I was either buying them myself or getting them out of the library.
Amy - Jan 15, 2014 10:05:08 am PST #21948 of 28359
Because books.
I was reading my mom's books when I ran out of mine. I'll never forget looking up "officious" when I read that the hotel manager was an "officious little prick" on the first page of The Shining.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 15, 2014 10:13:13 am PST #21949 of 28359
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I am pretty sure I read Fear of Flying when I was Casper's age! But I may be traumatized! My mom had so many books that she hadn't read, and I was usually at home with my grandma, so no one really bothered about what I read.
P.M. Marc - Jan 15, 2014 10:29:23 am PST #21950 of 28359
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How do you feel about violent YA novels?
I was reading violent adult novels at that age. (I'd steal my sister's books. She's 14 years my senior and read a lot of horror.)
There's a lot of violence, though, even in the children's books of our day. Not so much with the human on human dystopias, but plenty of bad things happening to good animals.
Atropa - Jan 15, 2014 10:40:58 am PST #21951 of 28359
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How do you feel about violent YA novels?
I was reading violent adult novels at that age.
I am Plei, but without the stealing the horror novels from an older sister. I'm pretty sure that's around the time I was reading H.P. Lovecraft, plus non-fiction about the Salem witch trials, and really dodgy SF.
My dad never censored my reading, and made it clear that I could talk to him if I was upset, scared, or confused by something.
Toddson - Jan 15, 2014 11:06:03 am PST #21952 of 28359
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My parents didn't censor my reading or TV (in fairness, back then TV was pretty consistently family friendly).
Jesse - Jan 15, 2014 11:23:49 am PST #21953 of 28359
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I only remember trying to censor my mother's reading, because she was reading YA along with me, and I eventually read something where the Did It, and I didn't want my mother to know I had read that. I don't think I was ever interested in anything really inappropriate, though -- assuming you think Agatha Christie is appropriate for small children.
Fred Pete - Jan 15, 2014 11:55:46 am PST #21954 of 28359
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Don't know how small you mean, but at 11 or 12, I read a lot of whodunits from the public library. Although I preferred Ellery Queen and Erle Stanley Gardner to Agatha Christie.
Amy - Jan 15, 2014 11:59:18 am PST #21955 of 28359
Because books.
I found the Beany Malone series in our library when I was a kid (not mystery, to be clear, just circa early 1950s kids' fiction), and I LOVED them.
I also read a lot of my mom's romantic suspense, like Dorothy Eden and Phyllis Whitney.