What was your first book as an "adult"?

(12 Feb 2012 12:21 PM)Susanne Wrote:  My best friend's parents had Fanny Hill on their bookshelf. We must have been about 11-12 years old at the time and knew there were "naughty bits" in it, but could never find them, much as we tried!

(12 Feb 2012 12:03 AM)NinaJos Wrote:  My first adult book was Jane Eyre, I must have been about 13. Twas back in the old days when your parents kept you in bed for the slightest snuffle and there I was bored, in bed, with tonsillitis. I croaked a request to my Nana to bring me back some Superman.DC comics please. Back she came, no comics, but a thick Pan version of Jane Eyre. Major strop from yours truly "not reading that, writing too small,it'll be boring", she told me to suit myself and left me in my bedroom with book on bed. Out of pure boredom I picked it up and was totally entranced. I've got a paperback copy and now a kindle version of the book,but loathe to re-read it in case I don't enjoy it as much

(12 Feb 2012 07:33 AM)ElaineG Wrote:  MY first book as an "adult", was when my grandmother passed on "Flowers in the Attic" to me when I was about 14, telling me how wonderful it was. Now, bearing in mind my grandmother was very traditionally minded, shall we say, when I think about it now, its quite strange that she was fascinated by a series of books that had the theme of incest running through them, and slightly strange that she passed them on to her 14 year old granddaughter. eg: my grandmother refused to watch anyone on TV who had been divorced, because she thought they were morally corrupt - so I guess she didn't really watch a lot of tv.