kierkegaank on Nostr: I could and did read whatever I wanted when I was growing up. There were no ...

I could and did read whatever I wanted when I was growing up. There were no developmentally suitable limits to my library card. And nobody checked what I was reading. I think that was a special exemption my library made for me

The only time it went a bit wrong was when I read The Exorcist at 11. It was rough. You could possibly argue that Jaws was a mistake too because Benchley was a terrible writer

But I think I was enriched by Salinger, Vonnegut and Conrad even if I lacked a lot of context