[bookshare-discuss] Re: banned books on bookshare
- From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:30:50 -0400
Hi all,
Shannon, that's what makes the world go round. Folks have different
opinions. I find her stuff to be awful. You don't. That's OK.
That's why banning books is wrong. We need diverse opinions and
diverse thinking.
Ann P.
Original message:
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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannon" <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 1:26 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: banned books on bookshare
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
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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