When I was a kid my mother just would not let me watch movies that were rated above my age. I went through the 80s without seeing Aliens, The Terminator, Robocop, Nightmare on Elm Street, and all these other movies the other kids in class were taking about.
One such movie which had the kids in my class absolutely buzzing was Silence of the Lambs. Not a hope of me being allowed watch that.
I was in the library and I spotted the book from a distance because it was an edition that had the same cover as the movie. So I got it.
It was a difficult read but I pushed through it and the dictionary became my friend. At this time I was mostly reading Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl. It was the first adult book I read. And I read nothing but adult books after this so I pretty much skipped over the whole YA phase.
Has anyone else ever been in a similar position?
by JynXten
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OMG, yes! My parents rarely tracked what I was reading, so if I could get it from the library, I could read it untroubled.