The Good Parts

[geminigirl]

What was the first book you remember looking for "the good parts" where the good parts were something "dirty" or titillating, or prurient?

If you like, what do you remember about it? How old were you?

I was in grade six, and it was Anne Frank-The Diary of a Young Girl. I believe there were some passages about menstruation which were the first things one of the girls in my class who had already read the book showed us.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Are you there God, it's me, Margaret?

I was in the seventh grade, it was forbidden to order via RIF (I was in Catholic School). So, because it was the first book I had ever been told I couldn't read, I went to the library and bought it.

At which point I read a lot more Judy Blume.

TK

[geminigirl]

I love that book. And Judy Blume's books in general-I still read them, and enjoy her adult fiction. But Margaret is such a classic-I think even zedrikcayne has read it.

The first book I was told I couldn't read was "Catcher in the Rye"-I was ten when I first read it, at the suggestion of my cousin, and thought it was cool cause it had dirty words. My parents decided it wasn't appropriate and took it away. They didn't try very hard, cause it ended up on a shelf in the basement and I removed it and finished the book.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

The first book I was told I couldn't read was "Catcher in the Rye"

I had that as assigned reading for an English class — 11th grade, I think.

[kellfire.livejournal.com]

Ditto to all!

But I soon found Joy of Sex in a friends mother's bookcase.

[aliki.livejournal.com]

^
Exact book I was going to post about. That was my first.