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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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I was really innocent.
I'd read sweet teen love stories, or even detective series like Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys. 😂
alan20 · M
@SW-User I knew you were sugar and spice! Actually I read some very strange things in my teens : John Reith's 2-volume autobiography "Into the Wind" ( founder of the 100 year old BBC which started broadcasting from the Savoy Hotel ), Churchill's massive History of the English Speaking Peoples, all the usual boys' books like Treasure Island ,the Just William and Biggles books - anything that I wasn't ordered to read for my GCSE Eng. Lit. Far too much of a rebel and anarchist for my own good. Always liked the BBC's motto - " Nation shall speak peace unto Nation".
Entwistle · 56-60, M
@SW-User The Nancy Boys and Hardy Drew stories were better..