I decided to switch to F because now I'm actually kind of hoping it wins. :D
I don't remember a lot of the details now, but I DO still remember the giant Marilyn Monroe! I also remember that, while my parents didn't exert much control over what I read*, I went through those books (which I had gotten out of the library) in the desperate hope, all the more so the deeper I got into them, that my parents wouldn't pick THIS of all times to ask what I was reading.
*The one hilariously misguided exception I remember was my mom telling me that I was allowed to read a book that young-teen-me had taken from my parents' shelves, as I did nearly everything that was on said shelves, on the condition that I promised absolutely, under no circumstances, was I to read Chapter 32 -- I had to skip over it. I'm sure you can guess how THAT went. (That chapter, which OF COURSE was the first one I read, involved the protagonist and his girlfriend having sex in the same room with the dying murder victim they'd just killed, who was bleeding out on the floor. It was a little disturbing but c'mon, mom, after all the Harlan Ellison and Robert Anton Wilson, that's what you think is going to give me nightmares?)
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I don't remember a lot of the details now, but I DO still remember the giant Marilyn Monroe! I also remember that, while my parents didn't exert much control over what I read*, I went through those books (which I had gotten out of the library) in the desperate hope, all the more so the deeper I got into them, that my parents wouldn't pick THIS of all times to ask what I was reading.
*The one hilariously misguided exception I remember was my mom telling me that I was allowed to read a book that young-teen-me had taken from my parents' shelves, as I did nearly everything that was on said shelves, on the condition that I promised absolutely, under no circumstances, was I to read Chapter 32 -- I had to skip over it. I'm sure you can guess how THAT went. (That chapter, which OF COURSE was the first one I read, involved the protagonist and his girlfriend having sex in the same room with the dying murder victim they'd just killed, who was bleeding out on the floor. It was a little disturbing but c'mon, mom, after all the Harlan Ellison and Robert Anton Wilson, that's what you think is going to give me nightmares?)