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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 9, 2006 15:21:05 GMT -5
I've picked up novels I think sound interesting for the story and find out that there is extreme violence in them, or over-graphic sex, or something that a movie would be regulated for and no one can know that that's in a book untill they read if if they don't happen to flip through right. Do you think books should have lables on them like movies so you know what you're getting? Some friends of mine said that would be like censorship, and that it's not so bad when you can't see something, but when an author describes in a certain amount of detail it is like seeing.
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Post by Angie on Sept 9, 2006 16:35:54 GMT -5
I don't think it's like censorship at all; it's not like it edits the books or anything. Most people WANT a warning if they're about to read something graphic or disturbing or inappropriate.
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Post by johnsapphire on Nov 21, 2006 19:36:23 GMT -5
I lend my support for ratings.
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Post by Chris on Nov 21, 2006 20:05:49 GMT -5
So do I.
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Post by Donald Duck on Nov 23, 2006 12:49:24 GMT -5
Same here.
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Post by jollymcjollyson on Nov 30, 2006 19:51:51 GMT -5
Ulysses is widely considered the most groundbreaking novel of the 20th century. If one can't overlook a little, as Virginia Woolf put it, "cloacal obsession," when reading it, or the references it has to anal sex, then he shouldn't be reading.
Similarly, it would be a TRAVESTY to put any kind of rating on Samuel Beckett's absolutely brilliant work. Rating for content is like somehow saying sexuality or low-language is somehow bad and something one should avoid. Haven't the authors of the last century been trying to get away from that?
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Post by Angie on Dec 17, 2006 14:29:50 GMT -5
I know countless people who are strongly offended by books that contain matter that one would find in an R-rated movie. Why is it not right let them know that such content is in a book before they read it? It's not like it alters the book or it's fanbase or anything.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Dec 18, 2006 13:26:36 GMT -5
Rating for content is like somehow saying sexuality or low-language is somehow bad and something one should avoid. Haven't the authors of the last century been trying to get away from that? Yeah they have. But why aren't those things bad?
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Post by thepolygotnerd on Mar 1, 2007 11:26:01 GMT -5
Ratings would get on my nerves, but I like the idea of warnings. They could be like the labels on the back of DVD cases, but there should be no age restrictions.
I would die if I wasn't allowed to read adult fiction (not 'adult' adult) because it had references to sex.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 2, 2007 17:20:33 GMT -5
I wouldn't want to be absolutely not allowed to read certain things untill a certain age.
I realize that one of my favorite series--The Dresden Files--would definatly be rated R and I don't know if I'd've picked it up if it was labeled as containing sex. However, I like the series a lot for other things. Therefore I don't know where I stand anymore. Whee! I am now like an asteriod...floating freely.
What It'd be comprable too, polygotnerd, is the ratings on the back of mangas, if you know about that.
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Post by AshVersion2 on Mar 3, 2007 8:24:56 GMT -5
Like OT and things like that?
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 4, 2007 18:00:02 GMT -5
Yeah.
(Does this site outlaw one-word posts like some do? I don't remember. Well, it's not a one-word post any more.)
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Post by AshVersion2 on Mar 10, 2007 15:13:51 GMT -5
No.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Mar 11, 2007 13:46:50 GMT -5
lol!
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Post by AshVersion2 on Mar 11, 2007 20:30:59 GMT -5
Well, it answered the question. ;D
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