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Originally Posted by hildea
I think it can be OK to condemn a book without having read it. Of course, you then need to be very clear about not having read it.
A couple of examples: - A novel where sex between a 14 year old enslaved girl and a 44 year old man who owns her is described as romance, not rape.
- A romance novel where the romantic couple is a jewish concentration camp prisoner and a SS officer who is running the concentration camp. (And where, adding insult to injury, the jewish woman converts to christianity before the novel ends.)
(Yes, both these are real novels, published recently by real publishers.)
For both these books, I have no qualms about condemning them and saying they never should have been published, based on nothing more than a very brief synopsis of the plot. |
I'm afraid I disagree. The storylines you describe don't float my boat, but some people get their kicks from things I find distasteful. I wouldn't buy such a book, but to say that nobody should be able to read it because I don't like it? No, that's going too far.