Tanaqui Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Cave Bear isn't smut, exactly. I mean, there's rape, and lots of it, but it's not intended to be titillating so, therefore, not smutty. Now, the rest of the series... sigh. We get it, Jondalar is big, and they're hot together, and it's the most BORING thing I've ever read. So also not smutty. Honestly, I've gotten more turned on from IKEA manuals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 "Assume the position" .... seriously. I remember almost nothing about it but my aunt talking to me and that phrase LOL And that it was pretty risque for an eleven year old. I read literally everything in our public school library. The Librarian special ordered stuff for me from another library. OH And I think I read the Heinlein juvies around then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Runningmom80 Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I read babysitters club for fun. We read out of a textbook for school. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirstenhill Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 (edited) I think we just read of out a "reader" aka textbook for school. We did have a book report assignment and we got more points for longer books, and I remember I chose The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsaratt. I think it was my step-Dad's suggestion, as it is one of his favorites. I can't remember if I liked it or not, but I do remember that it impressed my teacher. :lol: Other than that I read a lot of Star Trek books and some other random mysteries and sci-fi books from the adult section of the library. At the beginning of 6th grade I eschewed the Children's section as being too juvenile for an advanced reader like myself, and I don't think "teen" library sections had been invented yet. Ah, the joys of being a sixth grader that thought reading Star Trek novels was more advanced than reading classics of Children's lit...LOL! Edited June 6, 2016 by kirstenhill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptor_dad Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Cave Bear isn't smut, exactly. I mean, there's rape, and lots of it, but it's not intended to be titillating so, therefore, not smutty. And there is lots of botany... completely possible to ignore the sex for the fascinating botany... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 That's the only way those books are readable, raptor_dad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BatmansWife Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 (edited) The only books I can remember reading when I was in school were The Boxcar Children series, Nancy Drew books, Little Woman, and my all time favorite...The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Edited June 7, 2016 by BatmansWife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 At the end of 5th grade I read Gone With the Wind. :lol: My mom brought home a copy to read it herself, I absconded and was three chapters in before she figured it out. She let me keep reading. My 5th grade teacher said (at the first of May when I started it) that if I finished and gave her a synopsis before the end of school, Automatic A. Not that I needed that kind of extra credit in LA anyway. But man. I ripped through that book in three weeks! Just devoured it! It is still one of my all time favorite reads. In 6th grade my friend and I read the entire school library's collection of Nancy Drew books. Loved those!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Oddly I don't remember much from that time. One that stands out to me is Where the Red Fern Grows. I thought it was very sad. I have not had my kids read it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JennSnow Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Oh..that would be all of the Stephen King and V.C. Andrews I could get my hands on :scared: . I wouldn't recommend either, lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momacacia Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Ivanhoe in school, and the Scott O'Dell books, but I think my mom got those for me, they weren't school related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 (edited) Ooo yes, A Wrinkle in Time, Choose Your Own Adventure, fairy tales, Agatha Christie... I think the Agatha Christie were on audiobook. I went through a big audiobookphase. On cassette tape. :thumbup1: Edited June 7, 2016 by OhElizabeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReadingMama1214 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I clicked on this thread to say that I, too, read all of the then published VC Andrews canon by 6th grade. Lots and lots of terrible YA books. Non-textbook assigned reading started in 7th grade (Hobbit, Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, probably more. I did not read the Red Pony or Where the Red Fern Grows, because those were options in the "regular" class, and I still have not read them. This was my experience as well. I did read Where The Red Fern Grows, The Outsiders, some Jane Austin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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