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Originally Posted by voracious71
There's a few of them like that on Goodreads. I just ignore it after chuckling at their reviews. There's also the morality brigade on there. All worried that their kids or even other adults will be corrupted by the books with drinking, drugs, sex or violence in them.
I feel bad for kids with parents like that. I was not really policed at all with my reading once I passed the age of 12.
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This reminds me of something Stephen King (I think) wrote in one of his forwards or afterwards. He was talking about censorship and cited the example of a book about steelworkers. A kid had checked it out of his school library, for a book report and his mother happened to read part of it. Naturally being about construction workers it had some salty language and she decided to get it removed from the library. Enter the school board. They had a meeting about it and eventually it was pulled from the shelves, but not before a good many people had checked it out to see what all the fuss was about. The kid had been the 1st person to check it out but there were at least a good 20 more checkout stamps on the books card (this was before computerized card catalogs) after his before it was pulled. lol. People who complain about books often make the best advertizement for the books themselves.
