Awwww.
Benefit achieved. 
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Excellent collection.
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To be fair, once upon a time you COULD run out of books at the small regional library/your parents’ basement. I have read wild shit I actually had zero interest in.
But now Kindle unlimited makes it possible for me to read a new trash poorly edited self published smut everyday AND an excellent witty thoughtful self published smut. I can no longer run out
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Yep, did run out. Also the frustration of long series where i only had a random selection from the series available.
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but the advantage of reading above my grade level meant I could do stuff like read Winds of War when I was 10 because someone left it on the coffee table. It meant I didn’t run out of books as quickly. His argument of ‘read above grade level == run out of books’ is wrong. people who don’t read above their grade level would run out of books more quickly than those who have expanded their set of acceptable books.
And I probably read The Wealthy Barber because I was babysitting in a sadly bereft house.
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It def meant I read some stuff I never would bother with today 
but honestly made me more well rounded. I never would have read any Vonnegut or Dickens if I’d had more choices, pretty sure 
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I took it tongue in cheek. Like keeping a strong reading kid in books is REALLY challenging. They can go through a book a day, maybe more, and there are not a lot of choices that will slow them down (by being longer/ harder) without being too scary or “gross” for a lot of kids.
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This is also true. I read some shit very early I absolutely should not have 
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my whole generation read “flowers in the attic” before we were 10 years old, and we are not OK
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Yeah, that was an…interesting choice to let pre-teens read that book. I did NOT understand everything when I read it, but it sure stuck with me.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Pillars of the Earth when I was 11 
That was a shock to the system…haha
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Yeah, that one was way too much for me as a child (shocker).
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