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Originally Posted by shanghaichica
Yes. I read this Japanese book, can't remember the name off head I'll have to dig it out of my Amazon order list. It was about a teenage girl who was adopted. She found her biological dad and then decided that she wanted to sleep with him and she did. I stopped reading after that.
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For me, it would depend entirely on how the story was done -- whether, for example, the writer conveyed the irony of the idea that a teenaged daughter "wanted" to sleep with her father "and so she did" -- as if the father weren't responsible.
Lolita tells a similar story and part of the point is for the reader to be disturbed by the dissonance between what's actually happening and the way the main character perceives and rationalizes it.
I might have stopped reading the book as well, but only because the author's insensitivity annoyed me, not because I found it too disturbing. I've often stopped reading John Updike for that reason. I have the same reaction to Updike that David Foster Wallace not only had but chronicled in his
hilarious review of Updike's late science fiction novel,
Toward the End of Time.