floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoStephen King gives blunt three-word response after discovering Florida banned 23 of his books in schoolswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square112fedilinkarrow-up1364
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minus-squareZerlyna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·edit-23 months agoEvery book report in high school where I could choose the author was a Stephen King novel and I turned out fine. And in Florida too. Class of 1991. 😁. BRD.
minus-squareIphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 months agoBack in the ‘80’s I had a high school English teacher that had us read his Night Shift short stories. The entire class loved it.
minus-squareDominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·3 months agoNight Shift is fantastic.
minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoI read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with “inappropriate” material. It resulted in improved reading skills.
Every book report in high school where I could choose the author was a Stephen King novel and I turned out fine. And in Florida too. Class of 1991. 😁. BRD.
Back in the ‘80’s I had a high school English teacher that had us read his Night Shift short stories. The entire class loved it.
Night Shift is fantastic.
I read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with “inappropriate” material. It resulted in improved reading skills.