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Originally Posted by Hitch
Wolfie, dear boy:
You misconstrued what I said. Issy is right. I had zip problems reading P&P and I re-read it somewhat regularly. My point was, if we deny ourselves those things that would offend us today...good lord, we'd be a lot of ignorami. More than we already are. I can hardly read much of what happens to any Austen heroine (to sort of abuse that word) without outrage at the constraints of their times. It doesn't mean I won't read it because it offends my liberated 21st-century sensibilities. Nor would I pamper my brain that way--that sort of brain doesn't deserve pampering.
Hitch
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I know there are books out there from the past that have offensive content that's from the time these books were written. But I find if there's too much of such content, I can find the book not enjoyable. There are too many books I will enjoy that to bother with ones that bother me too much.
But if I go into the book knowing it's going to have some offensive content and that's part of the story, I can maybe get past it. But when a book should not have such content, that's when I drop it.