re: #151 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

My 9th grade English teacher said roughly the same thing about Dr. No and From Russia With Love after a classmate chose them for a book report. This was just after the movies came out. She went so far as to denounce them, and the student, in front of the class.

When I was in the 8th grade, I somehow got it in my head to read all the “banned in Boston” books. Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Leaves of Grass, Elmer Gantry, Sun Also Rises, etc. The librarian was horrified. Absolutely horrified. Tried to keep me from checking them out.

I will always be grateful to my mother that she went into the library on my behalf, told the priggish bitch that anything with enough literary merit to be stocked in that building, she was fine with me reading it. Age limits be damned.