[bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult or Not? Advice, Please

  • From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 16:30:44 -0700 (PDT)

I agree with you, Ann. I think my kids were in 5t or 6th grade when somehow 
they cam upon Flowers in the Attic. As I remember, I didn't let them read it; I 
did read it myself with, as you describe, a "morbid fascination," and then the 
sequel and/or the next one, but they weren't as interesting and I have never 
felt called upon to read another. Not suitable for young children, imo.

Cindy

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--- On Sat, 10/4/08, Robert Riddle <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Robert Riddle <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult or Not?  Advice, Please
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 2:07 PM
> Ah, VC Andrews. You know, it's funny. She's written
> more books after her 
> death than she ever did while alive. Just mor instances of
> the publishing 
> industry cashing in on authors. Another example is RObert
> Ludlum.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ann Parsons" <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:07 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Adult or Not? Advice, Please
> 
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Roger, you mistake me.  I have never thought that sex
> should be kept away 
> > from children.  I just think that there are some
> subjects like rape, 
> > incest, extremely graphic violence, child porn, some
> aspects of 
> > homosexuality, and so on that aren't necessarily
> bad, but they are, as you 
> > say, of little interest to children, and should be
> rationed unless taken 
> > with an adult as supervisor.   Now, there are kids who
> because of their 
> > life's experience could read adult books and
> understand them.  There are 
> > just some things that one experiences as one grows
> older which are tabu 
> > for children.  I mean tabu in the actual
> anthropological sense, something 
> > which is forbidden because it is either too holy or
> too secret for the 
> > crowd.  I don't mean tabu in the sense of
> something bad.  You used it to 
> > connote something bad.  I mean it as something which
> will be shared in the 
> > right time.
> >
> > <smiling>  This is one of the reasons I dislike
> V.C. Andrews books.  They 
> > are billed as being for young adults, but they have
> subjects which, if not 
> > discussed and evaluated, could spawn a host of
> questions in the mind of 
> > children and teens.  Again, there are some teens who
> could read her rot, 
> > know it was rot and move on.  There are others who
> wouldn't understand it. 
> > There are still others who would find it goulishly
> fascinating.  It is, as 
> > I have often said before, amoral.
> >
> > There are books like Huckleberry Finn which have no
> sex and no violence in 
> > them and yet are banned because Twain wrote in the
> time he lived, and that 
> > was how people thought.  I don't see anything
> wrong with Twain.  Twain, 
> > after all, was a writer whose morals are never in
> doubt. I can't say that 
> > about V.C. Andrews.   <smiling>  Go figure.
> >
> > Ann P.
> >
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