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Originally Posted by BenBanned
When I was younger I had a heavy parental filter, especially when it came to music. Unless I was at a friends house I couldn't play the "cool" video games or watch R rated films. No one ever thought check what was in all those library books though. If I remember correctly at twelve I was really into survivalist fiction and allways daydreamed about running away to live in the woods.
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I did not have a parental filter, especially when it came to music or reading. I did have one of those mums who would ask me 60 times a day whether or not I ate, and stuffing food into my mouth and telling me that I was hungry when I really wasn't. She is still like that.
My 12 year old self loved Stephen King in particular and horror in general (I don't think I've picked up a book by him up in at least 15 years, but I've been meaning to lately) and V.C. Andrews. I also read books about mythology and folk tales, language learning books (yes, even then) and also classics such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and even some roman and greek literature in translation - I remember tearing through the Iliad very quickly. I remember reading a lot of Margaret Atwood, and being interested in biographies. I was a voracious reader, and began reading young. The Babysitters Club was my guilty pleasure back then. It still is!