[bookshare-discuss] Re: he Years of Extermination
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:53:08 -0700 (PDT)
I'm forwarding this to Carrie. Any time anyone thinks the rating Adult
shouldn't be or, on the contrary, something is not rated Adult and you think it
should be, send a note to Carrie <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx> with the reason.
Cindy
--- On Thu, 8/21/08, kelby carlson <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: kelby carlson <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] he Years of Extermination
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, August 21, 2008, 5:40 PM
> Dear List,
>
> Recently, the book "The Years of Extermination"
> was added to the
> collection. I noticed this book was flagged as having
> adult
> content. From the books premise, I can kind of understand
> why,
> but I really wish that classification were changed. For
> one
> thing, its a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I think everyone
> should
> have access to it. For another, it is one of the only
> (though
> not the only) really extensive books on the holocaust (that
> goes
> into specifics) I can find in braille, and it is a subject
> I'm
> interested in.
>
> Kelby
>
> Doomed Dragon
>
> It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly
> because
> I grew up in a family where love was central and where
> lovely
> relationships were ever present. It is quite easy for me
> to
> think of the universe as basically friendly mainly because
> of my
> uplifting hereditary and environmental circumstances. It
> is
> quite easy for me to lean more toward optimism than
> pessimism
> about human nature mainly because of my childhood
> experiences.
> It is impossible to get at the roots of one's religious
> attitudes
> without taking in account the psychological and historical
> factors that play upon the individual.
> --Martin Luther King, Jr.
> If the people who started wars didn't make them
> sacred, who
> would be foolish enough to fight?
>
> --Rhett Butler
>
> True or false, that which is said of men often occupies
> as
> important a place in their lives, and above all in their
> destinies, as that which they do.
>
> --Victor Hugo
>
> It is not true that the saints and the great contemplatives
> never
> loved created things, and had no understanding or
> appreciation of
> the world, with its sights and sounds and the people living
> in
> it. They loved everything and everyone.
>
> --Thomas Merton
>
>
>
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