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Austin, what did you like to read when you were a teenager?

Austin, what did you like to read when you were a teenager?

ilinonfiction

Oh, God. If I had to sum up the spirit of my reading habits as a teen: THESE IDIOTS AROUND ME HAVE BEEN LYING AND EVERYTHING IS BULLSHIT. It was ridiculous. I was 17 during the Bush/Gore election and couldn’t vote, so I’d just run around quoting Molly Ivins to my relatives and begging them to vote Gore. Like everyone’s teenage years, it was pretty pathetic.

Books off the top of my head:

• Orwell, 1984
• Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt
• Naomi Klein, No Logo
• Kerouac, On The Road
• Zinn, A People’s History Of The United States
• Lies My Teacher Told Me
• Molly Ivins, Shrub
• Everything You Know Is Wrong

My parents subscribed to Newsweek, so I read that a lot, and we had dial-up internet, so I remember reading The Smoking Gun a lot.

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4. elaine4queen said: I read On The Road over and over as a teen. My other top teen read was The Bell Jar.
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43. bookcoversproject said: oh god I was also like six months too young to vote that year, that was the WORST.
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