I don't think late Gen X had a "cultural moment" book like Harry Potter. Personally, I was reading Stephen King.

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2024-09-02 12:14

I don't think late Gen X had a "cultural moment" book like Harry Potter. Personally, I was reading Stephen King.

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一小時內	Mythic U mythic_u_podcast	You got it. King all the way: Carrie, ‘Salems Lot, Dead Zone, The Shining, Night Shift and on and on.
8 小時內	Mister Reeves pleaseinsertdisk2	I mean, that was the time I remember The Anarchist Cookbook start to get popular 😆
9 小時內	Aryn Kennedy arynmkennedy	My path was Sweet Valley High, then VC Andrews, then Stephen King/Dean Koontz.
11 小時內	Cassia Crichton cassia_crichton	Ironic ...gen x being the generation named after a book
13 小時內	Dana Herra 🍊 dana_herra	Maybe kind of gendered, but I remember girls being really into Sweet Valley High and Babysitters Club and boys reading S.E. Hinton. Might have just been my school, though. And it was definitely not on the level of Harry Potter.
14 小時內	Kevin Fitzsimmons fitzsimmons_kevin	The Dungeons and Dragons games came in books. The first time I rolled 3 six-sided dice to determine my character changed everything.
14 小時內	Jay Mahan bibliophile1178	Agreed. I didn't read King til I was an adult, and as a younger Gen X, Harry Potter looked like kiddie lit to me. Closest I came was a Dean Koontz phase that I had in common with some buddies.
15 小時內	Patrick J Clarke patrick_j_clarke	What’s “late” ? For me early on and my older brother, this shaped us:
15 小時內	Patrick J Clarke patrick_j_clarke	But I will say, my senior year of hs (1989) was The Stand by Stephen King
16 小時內	Katrina Munichiello kamwrites04	Agree with those citing a more general “reading books we likely had no business reading”: King, Flowers in the Attic, Danielle Steele…