[bookshare-discuss] Re: banned books on bookshare
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:11:43 -0700 (PDT)
I agree with you about V. C. Andrews. I wouldn't let my young
daughters--elementary school at that time- read Flowers in the Attic.
G.Cindy
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--- On Thu, 6/19/08, Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: banned books on bookshare
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, June 19, 2008, 6:32 PM
> Hi all,
>
> I do appreciate the wealth of literature that is available
> on
> Bookshare, banned books and all. Some folks might get all
> bent out of
> shape to find out that there is a significant pagan
> contingent on
> Bookshare who are scanning their primers and religious
> texts. They'd
> probably have a ballihoo fit! But I love it! I may not
> read it. It's
> not my thing, but I'm pleased as punch that it's
> there.
>
> I agree that you should not be against any author unless
> you've read
> that author. I, for example, am opposed to letting
> children and young
> people read V.C. Andrews. I don't like her writing and
> I don't like
> her attitude toward the incidents in her novels. I have
> read two and a
> half books of hers and had to stop because I got physically
> repelled.
> I think she is one of those authors who can only be read by
> children if
> and only if, a parent is prepared to sit and read the book
> with the
> child and then discuss it. Her hands-off no participation,
> amoral
> writings give me the gru!
>
> On the other hand, I would encourage children to read Harry
> Potter
> because they are morally sound. One is never, ever in
> doubt as to the
> author's view of what the characters are doing and
> where they are going
> and who is doing right at any given moment. No, Rowling is
> morrally
> sound, whereas V.C. Andrews is not.
>
> Ann P.
>
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