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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Pretty much any fiction written decades or centuries ago will have attitudes that are different from today with regard to women's rights, racism, treatment of gay people, servants, slavery, etc. Does this affect whether you will read a book written 100 or more years ago?
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Not at all, I find it very educational.
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Originally Posted by 4691mls
However, I'm sure there are plenty of books with much more egregious treatment of a particular race/class/religion/etc. and now I find myself wondering what it would take for me to not read the book.
Have you ever stopped reading a book (or refused to start, based on what you've heard about it) based on such issues?
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Hmmm....I had one book that I read when I was about 7 or 8 that involved a gang rape of a man and that was a bit much for me at that age but I remember picking that book up later in my late teens and finishing it off.
As it stands now, probably not but there was another couple of 70s books I read at an early age called the Sensuous Man/Woman. Those were good but I again was a bit young when I read them and I couldn't handle the topic but I finished them both but remember feeling how my brain wasn't quite ready so I put them away until puberty
As it stands now, no. I tend to pride myself on not being easily shocked. There are some subjects I'm not a fan of but there's nothing that I think could shock me.