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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
And then they wonder why (young) adults have no interest in reading. I was lucky to grow up with a mother who reads a lot for fun and always let me choose whatever I wanted to read (it really upset the librarians that she allowed me to read Stephen King's It in English when I was only 13). If you never get in contact with books you like the ones the schools want you to read are not exactly encouraging.
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And many people I talked to read Flowers in the Attic when they were about 12.
The book was about children so it was ok for kids to read.
Now my dad's girlfriend wouldn't buy me Petals so I picked a different book and got the money from dad to buy Petals the next time I was at the store.