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02-13-2014, 03:18 PM | #16 | |
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#1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > History #2 in Books > History > World > Religious > Hinduism #2 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism The book is selling quite well. It's highly likely that the 1-star reviewers haven't even read the book. Fraudulent 1-star reviews are common with controversial books. |
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02-13-2014, 04:36 PM | #17 |
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And indeed a quick scan through the 1-stars reveals nearly 100% Indian names and mostly digging hard to find something wrong with the book. If I had any interest at all in the subject, just that mass of 1-stars would very much convince to read the book.
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02-13-2014, 07:49 PM | #19 | ||
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But Penguin did fight this legally. They put reasonable resources into standing up for a principle, more than a hard-hearted devotion to profit would have dictated. The problem is that, from a purely legal standpoint, Penguin appears to have been in the wrong. Quote:
I'm not saying they should care more about blasphemy than rioting. I am saying that no path is easy. |
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The thing about riots and mob violence is that 1) it's very hard to predict when and where a riot will start up. Two sets of events may both seem to be a powder keg waiting to blow and one will go boom and the other one won't. 2) When such an event occurs it's very unlikely that someone is going to be standing round video taping who does what to who so that it's hard to say so and so did this and this person did that when things come to a court of law. I wonder how many people who took part in the L.A. riot some yrs ago (after Rodney King's attackers were let go) were actually caught for their crimes against others. Probably not many and it was national news. The point is that such a trial can possibly lead to another riot as well. Either someone thinks that someone got away with it or that someone was framed for the crime or something. I wonder how long before this thread is moved to politics/religion.
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02-14-2014, 05:57 AM | #22 |
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As always: a ban will be very good for spreading the book.
I would most likely never have heard of it otherwise. Now it is on my 'to be read' list. I always want to have books that others do not want me to read. In my country The Netherlands it is forbidden to sell Hitler's Mein Kampf. I was in my late teens when I realized that my so called progressive country banned this book for the general public. I immediately got myself a copy. Nobody tells me what, or what not to read. Ever. It is a matter of principle. So, Wendy Doniger might not sell more of her books per se, but I am sure more people will read it. Last edited by Iskariot; 02-14-2014 at 07:23 AM. |
02-14-2014, 11:43 AM | #23 |
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My question: has anyone posting to this thread actually read "The Hindus?" If so, what is your opinion?
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02-14-2014, 03:53 PM | #24 | |
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This would be like having a law in the US making it illegal to document slavery in the US, or a law in Germany prohibiting publishing any record of acts by the nazi party while out of or in power, or Italy making it a crime to document any cases of pedophilia by the clergy. (Not that banning fiction that ruffles feathers isn't really really bad, but banning the publication of historical facts is much worse.) |
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02-14-2014, 07:01 PM | #25 | |
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And the law in Germany doesn't allow all books concerning Nazism. Is banning legitimate scholarship like the Hindus worse than banning books by mass murderers? Certainly. One reason India isn't so bad is that I'm pretty sure there will be no problem ordering the book from abroad for shipping in. See: http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac...ve%2520history Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 02-14-2014 at 07:18 PM. |
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Ah good old censorship, what would we do without you ?
Probably think for ourselves, the headaches such thought processes entail would be awful... |
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This one surprised me. I've known a few Hindus and none of them have struck me as being that touchy - actually, I'd have expected them to have a good laugh about this.
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Hindus seem to be just as touchy (or not) as any other religion. The list of Hindu<>Christian, Hindu<>Islam violence for example is long. Take a bunch of religious people. Throw a few power hungry politicians in the mix and you are ready for a massacre. It has always been that way. At least I was right about this: At the very least, attention drawn to the controversy has been good for business. Doniger's 800-page book is climbing the best-seller chart on Amazon.com, reaching number 26 on the retailer's top 100 list by late Thursday afternoon. (Chicago Tribune) Last edited by Iskariot; 02-15-2014 at 05:22 PM. |
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02-15-2014, 06:22 PM | #30 |
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To be honest, I finally purchased the book. A combination of distaste of blatantly false 1-star ratings and an interest in seeing what Ms. Doniger had to say. So thanks to all you 1-star raters. You've made the author a bit more money.
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