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Anybody who read books during adolescence that they shouldn't have?

I enjoyed "The Collector" by John Fowles, and "Lolita". "Tropic of Cancer" and "Capricorn" were so-so but too lonely and old mannish. Didn't like D.H. Lawrence but my girlfriend did. There's one I'd better not mention here. In my early adolescence I was obsessed by a novel about young, unrequited love which I can't for the life of me remember the title of; there were traces of Great Expectations but it was by a woman and slightly more risque. When I was a first-year student in London my landlady, not much older than myself, enjoyed discussing such things with me. It meant plenty of free drinks, useful for a student. She couldn't understand how such things could be available in Holy Ireland. The English blind spot about Northern Ireland !
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
I don't know how to understand "shouldn't have". I read many books but can't tell if any of them had caused some irreversible damage on my psyche. 😅 Maybe they did. I read about witch hunts, rape, torture, romantic books, many books by male authors presenting the world through their eyes...it is possible it all didn't have the best impact on me.