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My dad told me reading *Slaughterhouse-Five* would rot my brain, then he tried it himself last month
He found my old copy in the garage and read it on a whim, and now he's texting me about Vonnegut's anti-war message like it's a revelation. I spent years hiding banned books from him after he tossed my *Catcher in the Rye* in the trash. Has anyone else had a parent flip completely after actually reading one of these books?
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angelac6320d ago
My dad threw out my copy of Fahrenheit 451 when I was sixteen. Called it garbage. Then his book club picked it last year and now he won't shut up about how it predicted everything. I don't even get to be smug about it because he genuinely thinks he discovered it on his own. It's like they forget they're the ones who banned it in the first place.
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ryan_clark4020d ago
I mean, you actually can't really "ban" Fahrenheit 451 if you're the one who threw it out, that's more like just censoring your kid's reading. Your dad banning a book from your life and then acting like he discovered it later is kind of the point of the book itself though, it's like he's living the plot without realizing it. Idk, maybe it's just me but that whole thing about him not remembering he trashed it feels like the real warning Bradbury was trying to get at.
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