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Oh, please, that's like thinking someone wouldn't know about the Marquis de Sade. One doesn't have to have read something to get the reference to it. ;-)

E.

I thought it had gone out of fashion and replaced by something more modern and I'd never heard of... (then again, I'm reading the latest Jacqueline Carey book. While she can make me uncomfortable, I love the story lines.)

Cheryl

I actually read it way back when. I looked at the Wiki site and realized just how long ago. It was published in 1954 when I was a senior in high school. I'm sure you all know how tempting that kind of junk is to a young person.

Lol, and several other titles too.

"Lucille" wrote

Isn't it funny how that works. We were talking in a study group when I taught, and the college chaplain mentioned that of course she had not read a certain book when she was a teenager, because it was on the Prohibited Index. And of course, that was exactly why some of the others HAD read it.

Dawne

I suspect that a lot of us know what 'The Story of O' is, but how many of us would admit to actually having read it? :)

MargW

I see no need for secrecy but then, too many people freaked out over the exposure of that singers breast on national television.

Ulysses was the one that puzzled me, a cousin and I found it in a cupboard at my grandmothers, we were about 8/9 and couldn't really hoist it in. We figured it had belonged to the uncles. Somehow never read it again when older.

I read it in college.

But, maybe since most of us aren't in our first blush of youth any longer, does anyone know what "edgy" stuff kids are reading now. I read 9 1/2 Weeks many moons ago.

Cheryl

Reading? What's that?

Elizabeth

I haven't seen anything "edgy", but mine are all about the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I'm reading the first one now - there's definitely some hints of romance in it, but nothing too bad. However, you might be surprised at how explicit some of the YA books are!

Linda

Uou guys are all making me laugh. My freshman year, this went around our dorm floor - very educational ;^p

ellice

Oh - some of them are.

Cheryl

Oh no I wouldn't. I had the librarian tell me which authors not to let DD read.

I'd let DS read anything JUST to get him to read.

Cheryl

Tee hee - you should see the even more "erotic" Anne Rice psuedonym books, IIRC under the name "Rocquelaiare" - they're way beyond any of her other writings - sort of the erotic, S&M, Cinderella and "lost princess" tales.

Don't ask how I know - just remember - I did have the brief marriage to the extremely good looking, younger, what was I thinking guy....(yes, he had a brain, too - but tended not to use it in the personal sense).

Ellice

I have a few neices in high school. There are required reading lists they were sent home with. One one of the lists was "A Clockwork Orange." My SIL called me and asked me if I thought the movie would be good for my neice to watch before she read the book. Uh, WOT?

How can they BAN all books about magicians, wizards, and witches, but have "A Clockwork Orange" listed? I'm not too sure if I am understanding this or not.

I think people would be very surprised what kids are reading and like Liz said, "'What's reading?'"

We are going to have a flush of very dumb adults in about ten years.

My son the engineer hated to read as a boy, unlike his sister who would sneak a flashlight into her room at night. He devoured anything sports related so I got him a subscription to Sporting News and occassionally bribed him to read a biography.

Don't be mean, you read stuff, they need to read stuff lol

That's right, maybe Cheryl's two are watching, not reading RDH

Reading lists can be total crap. Last year DS had to read "Lemonade". While the plot had merit, the book was written with out benefit of grammar or standardized spelling and read like the lyrics from a very bad rap song.

Or the book were a young girl is left orphaned after a nuclear war and has to fend off the sexual advances of some guy that shows up.

Cheryl