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Get teenage boys reading

2017-07-31 17:49:14.579589+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Daniel Handler (aka Limony Snickett): Want Teenage Boys to Read? Easy. Give Them Books About Sex.

Searching for a suitable answer, I raided my bookshelves and reread a pile of my favorite books from my teenage years. Both high and low culture were represented; there were books by men and women, contemporary authors and ones from bygone eras, literature in English and literature in translation, books I still loved and books I can no longer stand, but the books all had one thing in common: They were filthy.

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