I read it for a book club that I'm in, and I'll be honest I would not have finished it otherwise. I think maybe I should have put it down anyway and just read the Wikioedia article on it. I am more susceptible to sexuality so I have to be really careful with sexual content, but I'm not as sensitive to things that are violent. Of course that doesn't mean reading it was necessarily a good thing for me. I'm a sped reader so I did lots of skimming during the descriptions of fighting and whenever he talked about the hole in his cheek.

What is actually really interesting about my decision to finish reading the book is that my book club is actually all LDS. Sometimes it can be more difficult to make decisions about your standards when I am in a situation with LDS friends because I don't want my decision to cone across as me trying to send some kind of subliminal message to make them feel bad about what they are doing. I remember once in college I was spending time with a guy at his apartment and there was a big groups of returned missionary guys and this other girl and me and we started watching a movie and I quickly deduced it was rated R. I've never seen a rated R movie and I'm holding firm to my commitment not to do so.I felt stupid asking them to turn it off or asking to leave, so I acted really really tired for awhile and pretended to sleep, but the movie was so awful I eventually decided to get up and go into one of the bedrooms to sleep (which is a no no at BYU but I felt it was the better of two evils at the moment). I'm probably still not any braver now, I just try not to put myself in situations like that again.