[bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:18:41 -0400
Of course I see other issues with such a designation, especially with
how it is set up as a one-size on-off. There are lots of books that
are entirely inappropriate for a 10 year old, far far fewer for a 16
or 17 year old. I'm not sure there is anything purely text that would
produce the reaction in me that the proofing guide uses when talking
about such a teen.
On 9/1/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> That could be part of the problem too, but I am suddenly reminded of a
> funny story. I said that the censor types insist on imposing their own
> tastes on
> everyone else. Actually, now that I think about it, it may not even be
> their own tastes. There was a guy I once knew who was an official at my
> city's
> most prominent Presbyterian church. He wasn't a minister and I don't know
> exactly what he was, but he had his own private office in the church and he
> absolutely never appeared in public wearing anything but a gray suit and a
> neck
> tie. He was the pillar of the community type. Now, obviously, this is not
> the kind of person I would hang out with. I only knew him barely and that
> was
> only because I knew his daughter a lot better. She was a much more regular
> kind of person. She could party for one thing. Her father's idea of partying
> was probably a stiff formal dinner with the city fathers. Well, the time
> came when I got a job as a sales clerk in a porn shop and suddenly he had a
> pair of automobile floor mats that he wanted to give me. Not only that, but
> he
> wanted to deliver them to me at my place of employment. I assure you, he
> could have given them to me elsewhere quite easily or even transmitted them
> to
> me through his daughter. When he came into the shop it was all I could do
> to keep from bursting out laughing. He was trying his best to look
> nonchalant
> and appear to ignore the wares on display, but I could see his eyes darting
> around and he was nearly salivating. The mats were obviously an excuse to
> check out the interior of a porn shop. I even felt a little sorry for him. I
> am sure that he really wanted to open up some of the magazines or watch some
> of the videos, but the mats did not provide an excuse for that and he
> couldn't come up with an excuse. In retrospect I wonder what he would have
> said
> if I had offered to show him some of those things. Now the issue never came
> up, but I knew him and his type well enough that I am sure that if, for
> example, someone had proposed a city ordinance to shut the store down for
> "indecency" that he would most likely have been all for such an ordinance.
> So, yes,
> censorship is the practice of imposing one's own tastes on everyone else,
> but it is also the practice of imposing the tastes that one wants everyone
> to
> think one has on everyone else.
>
>
> "The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies
> the end.
> " Leon Trotsky
>
> The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press:
> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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> The problem is that because this rating has such a low threshold, and the
> submitter cannot change it, that if a book gets one of those quick proofing
> jobs,
> the proof reader may not even check the rating. So the books get into the
> collection with an adult rating because the submitter can't change it, and
> the
> proofer may not bother to check.
>
> Evan
>
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> Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wishlist Request
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> I think it is both, but since at least the proofreader can change that
> designation I think it is mostly the latter. The censorship mind set is
> inherently
> a mind set that insists on imposing one's own tastes on everyone else. It
> is known by various names including self-righteousness,
> holier-than-thou-ness,
> arrogance and imperiousness.
>
> "The end
> may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
> " Leon Trotsky
>
> The Militant:
> http://www.themilitant.com
> Pathfinder Press:
> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
> http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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> The adult content scan must have an incredibly low threshold. That or
> there are submitters who think no child/teen should read anything more
> risque than Nancy Drew.
>
> On 9/1/09, gwen tweedy <gstweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Speaking of books to add to series,
>> I hope one day
>> they get book 3 I can't for the life of me think of what it is
>> but they have Independence and the last in the 4 is Origon in the Wagons
>> west series by Dana Fuller Ross,
>> There are several messing,
>> and to get them whenever is cool,
>> but you actually need the 3rd book to make at least the first 4
> complete.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kelby Carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 6:41 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wishlist Request
>>
>>
>>> Dear Booksharians,
>>>
>>> I would like to request the following be added to the collection:
>>>
>>> The Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
>>>
>>> It's the only one in this series that is missing, and I'd really like to
>>> read it.
>>>
>>>
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