Writer's Block: Book review
Nov. 18th, 2009 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Infuriating question.
There are a lot of books I dislike and would prefer never to have existed, but it's entirely up to people if they want to be daft enough to read something bad. Who are we to censor other people? There are a lot of hateful texts out there, but if you read Mein Kampf and decide that you now hate Jews, the problem lies with you yourself.
Infuriating question.
There are a lot of books I dislike and would prefer never to have existed, but it's entirely up to people if they want to be daft enough to read something bad. Who are we to censor other people? There are a lot of hateful texts out there, but if you read Mein Kampf and decide that you now hate Jews, the problem lies with you yourself.
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Date: 2009-11-19 11:44 am (UTC)Margo Lanagan's book Tender Morsels is a super read and has been marketed for both teens and adults but I think that is an adult book too, and would think it only appropriate for someone sexually and emotionally mature enough to deal with the ideas of bestiality and incestuous rape. Yet because it is a re-write of the fairy tale SnowWhite & Rose Red, it might be that quite young pre-teens and early teens read it. If it is on the teen shelves, then 11 and 12 yr olds will read it. It shouldn't be banned but shown to be on a shelf with adult books. Then a younger reader can still piick it and choose to read it but has a clue that it is an adult book.