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Originally posted by barely_legal
I read the Awakening in high school and used it as the subject of my long essay on the AP exam (I got a 5, b/c I'm fancy). I tried to read Wide Sargasso Sea but it was too painful, even though I love Jane Eyre. I did watch the movie of WSS, but it sucked too. I had to read Franny & Zooey in my college class for people who liked to do drugs. I honestly didn't know that a class called "Altered States" would be filled with people who had done acid a minium of 5 times. I was that sheltered.
Oh, and I read Bell Jar on my own when I was in middle school. Was there sex in that book?
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Altered States? Shit, I went to the wrong college. The closest thing I got to a drug class was some quasi psychology classa about how drugs actually work. Like seratonin uptake inhibition or something. All I wanted to know was whether X really caused back pain or if that was an urban legend bc I never experienced that.
I must have read Bell Jar three times and do not recall sex, but would guess that she mentions it. and it sucks. I never did find a great sex book through the academic route. I soon turned to Anais Nin and Henry Miller, and that was not so hot either. That is also when I read Portnoy's Complaint. I suppose I discovered Judith Krantz not long after. Supermarket Lit is where its at when you are 16
