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May. 9th, 2025 09:45 pmYou know, between my parents being Like That and me being kind of a weird kid, it shouldn't surprise me every time I re-read something I loved when I was ten and think "wow, I can't believe I was allowed to read this at that age", and yet it does.
(Usually this is a sign that I was raised in a weird cult, and the book itself is fine, just not something I would have expected my parents to be okay with. In this very specific instance I will concede that maybe a ten-year-old did not need to be reading an unabridged version of The Iliad. But the sex and violence went right over my head and apparently also my parents' heads, and I had a great time, so that seems to have worked itself out.)
(Usually this is a sign that I was raised in a weird cult, and the book itself is fine, just not something I would have expected my parents to be okay with. In this very specific instance I will concede that maybe a ten-year-old did not need to be reading an unabridged version of The Iliad. But the sex and violence went right over my head and apparently also my parents' heads, and I had a great time, so that seems to have worked itself out.)
