[bookshare-discuss] Re: banned books on bookshare

  • From: Shannon <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:25:58 -0500

I can't believe you people call me a heathen. I mean, on behalf of the silent lurkers who are real practicing heathens, I am incensed on their behalf!


Shannon
Who is sweetness and light. And also has impeccable taste. Really. Just ask, well... me.



At 02:33 PM 6/20/2008, solsticesinger wrote:
Okay, so I'm a disgusting individual, but I really enjoyed Flowers In the
Attic. Yes. The incest was a bit much, but still, the book was fabulous.
Petals on the Wind, its sequel, was even better.

Shannon, not to be confused with Heathen (Grin)
I am only one; but still I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do
something. And, because I can not do everything, I will not refuse to do the
something I can do.
Everet Edward Hale
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I haven't either, but I'm fairly sure, after these conversations,
that you'd hate it.

It's about these kids that, for whatever reason, were hidden in the
attic for a number of years--if memory serves because of an evil
grandmother--and the oldest boy and girl engage in a little hanky
panky of the brother/sister incest variety.

I've never been tempted to read any of those books, because I don't
think glorifying incest is a particularly romantic notion, and if I
wanted a soap opera, I'd, you know, turn on the TV in the afternoon
and watch one.

Shannon


At 10:50 AM 6/20/2008, Elfqueen wrote:
>Flowers in the Attic, fascinating title. What's the matter with it?
>(I've never read it, I'm only curious.)
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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>Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 4:11 AM
>Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: banned books on bookshare
>
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>>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
>>
>>***WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE
>>COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AT
>>http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/Book_Requests.htm
>>http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/
>>http://studentpages.alma.edu/~07jmyate/book_requests.htm
>>
>>A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT
>>http://people.delphiforums.com/jamiecalton/scanning.html
>>
>>Jake's site for useful links: http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
>>
>>
>>--- 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.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Ann K. Parsons
>>>Portal Tutoring
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>>>
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>>>Not all those who wander are lost."
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