/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17886741]

ITT: books you read too young

For me I read pic related (and the rest of the series) when I was like 11. I remember reading the page where Dany is fucked by Khal Drogo for the first time over and over again, and though I didn't know how to masturbate it made me feel things.

[Anonymous No.17886747]

>>17886741
>mfw my first sexual experience was finding my mom's erotica stash
such is life

[Anonymous No.17886764]

>>17886747
Mine was buying erotica on my grandmother's nook at like 12. Those were the days, lads.

[Anonymous No.17886820]

>A Clockwork Orange at age 11
>Kafka's entire body of work at age 12-13
The latter was much worse, because it made me a huge fucking pseud faggot with no friends.

[Anonymous No.17886829]

>>17886764
My mom's erotica was on a Kindle too. I overheard my dad telling her that he got her a special book, and I decided to check it out.

[Anonymous No.17887742]

>>17886741
Catcher in the rye

[Anonymous No.17887949]

I read Bukowski's Women as a teenager. Granted, I'm closing 30 and I still haven't had sex.

[Anonymous No.17887965]

>>17886741
I remember reading the first four ASOIAF books as a 13 year old, thinking what a fat fucking hack GRRM is. Amateur prose and cheapest plot tricks imaginable. Keep in mind that Harry Potter and Discworld were my reference points back then.

[Anonymous No.17888003]

>>17887965
Do you still feel the same way five or more (I hope) years later?

[Anonymous No.17888023]

>>17886741
I tried reading brothers karamazov at 9 and got filtered very hard
>>17887965
I like discworld more but you fell for memes if you dont think GRRM is 10x better than rowling

[Anonymous No.17888048]

>>17886820
Same here with Kafka
Also attempted to read Crime and Punishment but gave up ~a quarter through.

[Anonymous No.17888165]

I read this shit in the 6th grade because it was on my math teacher's shelf and the cover looked cool. To this day I still sometimes think about the scene where he's in the ER or something and they give him the max dose of morphine to numb him for surgery and it doesn't do anything because he's too tolerant from heroin addiction. I refused to take any drugs at all, even tylenol and shit, until my junior year of highschool. Now that I think about it, a lot of the shit in this book is till rattling around in my brain. Him and his girlfriend digging around for crumbs of crack in the carpet, breaking into his dad's car to sleep in, going with his dealer to buy a piano, getting clean and relapsing with his girlfriend. It messed me up real bad.

[Anonymous No.17888241]

>>17886820
Kek I can see you right now. You must've had it rough. I hope you're doing well now. xoxo

[Anonymous No.17888798]

>>17886764
>Nook existed when you were twelve

[Anonymous No.17888986]

>>17888003
More like 6 months later probably

[Anonymous No.17889017]

I read Homer's Odyssey at age 10/11, Watchmen (comic book, I know, but worth mentioning here) and 2001: A Space Odyssey at age 11/12. (Got in trouble at school for bringing watchmen because it has tiddies.) I actually don't think I was too young for any of those, people really underestimate the comprehension of ten year olds.

[Anonymous No.17889030]

>>17888003
Read them at the time of AFFC's release, so nearly 16 years ago fuck!. "Poorly written, relying on tweeests and cliffhangers" was my opinion then and it has degraded since, especially after reading ADWD (unintentional parody). Do you unironcically enjoy ASOIAF as anything else than easily digestible pulp?
>>17888023
>GRRM is 10x better than rowling
Seriously? Rowling is pedestrian, but professional. I've read eroric Warcraft fanfic written with more skill and elegance than some of the demented sentences GRRM cobbles together.

[Anonymous No.17889543]

>>17886741
Don't remember the title but I picked up a copy of a novel my mother was reading about an 11 year old prostitute living in vietnam in the 80s.
I was probably 9.

[Anonymous No.17889664]

>>17889030
First 3 books were fresh take on more realistic fantasy. I dont judge the genre or its prose compared to classic literature because it would make it pointless to read from the start. But what Rowling wrote is basically western equivalent to isekai for millenial manchildren

[Anonymous No.17889820]

>>17886741
>I read pic related (and the rest of the series) when I was like 11
You were already too old.

[Anonymous No.17889835]

>>17889030
I tried reading the first chapter of AGoT once, and couldn't believe the sheer incompetence of the writing. Sentences like "No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade," or "The sword came shivering through the air" still stick in my mind today. It's just laughably bad. Gurm doesn't even know what basic English words mean, and lacks even the initiative to look them up.

[Anonymous No.17889836]

>>17886747
I watched softcore porn on youtube at age 7

[Anonymous No.17890051]

>>17889836
I am grateful that my parents didn't really let me use the internet alone until I was 10ish.

[Anonymous No.17890123]

>>17889835
>the sheer incompetence of the writing
That sums him up perfectly

[Anonymous No.17890218]

>>17889030
>Do you unironcically enjoy ASOIAF as anything else than easily digestible pulp?
Never read the books, actually - just curious. I watched the first episode of the TV series and decided I prefer my incest porn on the Internet.

>>17889664
>I dont judge the genre or its prose
If you mean "for its prose," I can agree. But judging individual series for their prose is, if not crucial, at least worth doing.
>But what Rowling wrote is basically western equivalent to isekai for millenial manchildren
I'm sure people here have strong opinions on HP just vicariously from the pop culture. I read the books recently to get my own opinion, and was struck by how drastic the change in base quality was over time. I'd go so far as to say that the first 3 books aren't worth reading, but the last 4 are fine enough. 4 in particular is actually quite strong in terms of scenes/plotting and the main hook/mystery, though the prose was mostly just "'acceptable."

[Anonymous No.17890232]

Crime and Punishment at the age of about 13. I enjoyed it but I don't think I got that much out of it at that age.

[Anonymous No.17890829]

there was a "dear penis" song that was pretty popular when i was a kid. i thought it was so funny i wrote down the lyrics and lo and behold was found by my mom. awkward conversation ensued

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIoy_DFIe3Y

[Anonymous No.17890849]

>>17890829
>books

[Anonymous No.17890896]

>>17890849
inspired by first post

[Anonymous No.17891379]

>>17890218
Yeah I meant that I dont read the fantasy for its prose because then outside of something like tolkein there really is nothing to read. Also I am ESL and while I can tell how some writers like nabokov or McCarthy have objectively great prose I couldnt pick between grrm or rowling prose, they are both acceptable to me. But HPs collection of YA tropes and basic heros journey plot were stale to me even as a kid. It seems to me like people got most of the enjoyment from self-inserting in the world. I remember liking artemis fowl a lot more back then, I could probably reread that for nostalgia factor alone

[Anonymous No.17891471]

>>17889835
Can someone explain what is wrong with: "The sword came shivering through the air"?
Maybe it's because I am ESL, but it just seems like an average English sentence to me.

>>17890218
To be fair, the first books are meant for children, so they should be pretty simple.

[Anonymous No.17892871]

>>17891471
"Shivering" has two meanings: to shudder with cold, or to shatter into fragments. Neither meaning applies to the sentence in question. Incredibly, GRRM didn't know what shivering actually meant, and couldn't even be bothered referring to a dictionary.

[Anonymous No.17892913]

>>17889664
>But what Rowling wrote is basically western equivalent to isekai for millenial manchildren
lol what it was literally written for kids

[Anonymous No.17892981]

>>17886741
I watched a video of a man being raped in prison when I was 10. I used to go through my parent's (who are lawyers) evidence to look at the brutalized victims.

[Anonymous No.17893190]

>>17886741
I read Game Of Thrones when i was 11 and i read it during lunch at school on a hill and one time this girl saw me reading it and ripped it out of my hands and started playing piggy in the middle with my book, she ripped out a few pages from it.

[Anonymous No.17893196]

>>17892871
you nitwit. He meant "shudder with cold." The sword's name is literally Ice, and I don't have a copy handy to look it up, but I believe the sword is described as having an energy to it unlike contemporary steel, because it's thousands of years old and made by fucking wizards or some shit. I don't like gurm all that much but for fuck's sake at least criticize him on something that's actually wrong with his writing, not fucking reddit-level "you don't know what the word means" shit. god damn do I hate you fucking people.

[Anonymous No.17893204]

>>17886741
lol SAME. glad I got done with liking that series early tho

[Anonymous No.17893309]

I got filtered hard by Quo Vadis, even though it was supposed to be a version for teenagers and had read all the books of that collection.
Never finished it

[Anonymous No.17893337]

>>17886741
Read at age 10. Followed by Marathoning the Dragonlance novels. Kitiara and the wife gave me a fetish for villain girls I think.

[Anonymous No.17893345]

>>17890218
>the first 3 books aren't worth reading

What's wrong with them?

[Anonymous No.17893361]

>>17888023
>I tried reading brothers karamazov at 9 and got filtered very hard
Thanks for this anon it made me laugh out loud

[Anonymous No.17893370]

I read the Antichrist by Nietzsche when I was 13 years old.

[Anonymous No.17893531]

>>17890051
I only got the internet after turning 13.
Not that it changed much, I've already had no chances of becoming a normie.