Books you shouldn't have read as a kid

[Trevor]

For me

WATERSHIP DOWN
CHIEF!
PRISONER OF MAO

[claws]

The German children book classic "Struwwelpeter"



A book that scared every child that ever read it.

[Alex]

Well, I'd read most Stephen King stuff that was around when I was a kid, although I preferred other horror writers.

[Rev. Powell]

"The Ends of Power" by H.R. Haldeman. I didn't really get it at the time.

[zombie no.one]

The German children book classic "Struwwelpeter"



A book that scared every child that ever read it.

yes totally hahaha

Straw Peter in english

[M.10rda]

Most of them! During independent reading time in 4th grade, a very smart classmate who later was Class President etc was reading Sidney Sheldon's The Other Side Of Midnight. The teacher confiscated it, ripped it up, and then called in the school custodian to ritually burn it (yes) in front of the class.  After he toted away the ashes, we were to return to our IR books. I was reading Cujo and had been on the page where a character is talking about his wife's pubic hair. The teacher (who liked me) walked by and nodded taciturnly for me to continue. This was maybe the first and just about the last time in my life that I slipped past the Long Arm of the Law. I've gotten pulled over countless times for driving within the speed limit, for instance. I've passed three or four breathalyzers/field sobriety tests! (I mean I've never failed one. Cops just like pulling me over and sometimes they like pulling me out of the car and giving me the business.)    I'm a white guy, btw!

Also Cujo is one of the weakest Stephen King novels I've read. It would've been a bummer to get in trouble for that one. A lot of the Peter Straub and Dean Koontz novels I read as a kid were even a lot more sexually graphic...

[Rev. Powell]

Rape scene. I was about 12?

Also one of the Gor novels, don't remember which one but probably the first one, at about the same age. If you don't know, it was a fantasy series with heavy S&M/B&D themes.

[zombie no.one]

The teacher confiscated it, ripped it up, and then called in the school custodian to ritually burn it (yes) in front of the class. 

drastic

Not a book but I used to buy a rather not-for-kids comic called BRAIN DAMAGE, and made the mistake of taking it into school once to show some mates... got confiscated by my English teacher and never returned to me!