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Books that made you feel odd when you were young

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  • 07-11-2005 3:17pm
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    BossArky
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    Was thinking about this over the weekend...

    Do you know the feeling when you were young and read about something for the first time and it gave you a strange feeling or something foreign which you didn't particularly like? i.e. a fear of the unknown

    I remember getting this when reading about the Holy Crusades. I must have been somewhere between 6 to 10 years old. Not exactly sure. Another one was reading things like "Just William" where the lives of the characters were in a different country... or the language they used was different. e.g. English slang as opposed to Irish.

    Does anyone remember these first feelings of reading certain types of books whilst young?


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    Kolodny
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    Definitely. I remember feeling a bit strange when reading several books when I was very young. Particularly with some of Roald Dahl's books, I suppose because some of his stories were a bit darker than what I'd read before and didn't necessarily have the happiest of endings. I'd feel a bit 'unsettled' when things got creepy and there was a sense of it not turning out all right in the end, but I sort of enjoyed that feeling - if that makes any sense!


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    Piste
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    I read a lot of the Enid Blyton books about boarding school. They always made me really want to go to Boarding school!


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    BossArky
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    One of the few things I remember for first infants at primary school was reading those books with pictures of things..e.g. cakes and feeling really hungry!


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    bounty_hunter
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    Kolodny wrote:
    Definitely. I remember feeling a bit strange when reading several books when I was very young. Particularly with some of Roald Dahl's books, I suppose because some of his stories were a bit darker than what I'd read before and didn't necessarily have the happiest of endings. I'd feel a bit 'unsettled' when things got creepy and there was a sense of it not turning out all right in the end, but I sort of enjoyed that feeling - if that makes any sense!
    Ditto. The BFG (I was living in London at the time) made me uneasy about the city centre for ages.
    Directly after that I read Oliver, which had the same effect. After reading both of those I started to notice things like crime on the news and the appearance of poverty-striken areas a lot more and it frightened me slightly that these sort of things were going on around me.


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    muesli_offire
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    'The Sandman' - E.T.A. Hoffmann


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    NoDayBut2Day
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    I dont' think I ever read a book that made me feel "odd" as a kid... :confused:


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    Keyzer
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    Kama Sutra had a profound effect on me in my younger days....


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