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user-inactivated  ·  2891 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TIL the woman who started my love affair with reading recently turned 100 - Beverly Cleary, thank you for everything

    Which is how, in second grade, too young to watch Blade Runner, I found myself reading an orgy scene involving a wicked sorceress riding a rhinoceros for its dildonic powers.

Weird sex things in books your parents weren't suspicious of because books must be like finding porn in the woods. Mine was the kids having sex in the sewers to ward off the monster in Stephen King's It. I am sure if I were to read it again that scene would make much more sense than the "and then the children spontaneously decided that getting it on would save them from the monster, and indeed it worked" I remember, but I don't think I want it to.





kleinbl00  ·  2891 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, King is always good for a little weird tail at inappropriate moments. I think It was 6th or 7th grade for me, by which time all the chicks were reading Flowers in the Attic which, while I've never read, is a really weird fuckin' movie so It wasn't any great shakes.

Fuckin' Flowers in the Attic, man. WTF.