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My dad really loves Louis L'amour books. They're cowboy adventure kind of stories and they're wilding popular amonst men of that era.

I think the book you want is "Then Again Maybe I Won't" by Judy Blume

Quite accurate, the violence. I think it would have been offensive if it had been dulled down. For example, Schindler's List is full of mind numbing horrors. But I think they were perfectly necessary to be true to the event that was being dealt with. To dull it down would have done dishonor...

Bobbyburns, I'm curius as to what period of Neitzshe you're reading from. He's talking about "creative will" and "true free will" in the passage you've quoted. Neitzsche didn't believe in free will for most of his life. By the late 1870's he was all about determinism - that what we do is...

:D Thanks, Chewbecca, you've just made my day, and I agree with you completely. Ironically, my soon-to-be husband is also in the television business and I can agree whole-heartedly that its also sent my opinion of television (as a whole) down the tubes. If anyones interested, i've found...

I guess I want to raise my kids so that they can recognize junk when they see it. Then censorship won't even be an issue. I'd love to watch my daughter (if I have one) walk past the sluty teen magazines and trashy novels and head straight for C.S. Lewis or Tolkein etc. Wishful thinking, I...

How about Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca? That lady creeps me out. I guess its not EXACTLY fantasty, but its still a pretty weird book.

Very good! I agree! We don't need to be afraid of other people ideas, and we don't want to foster that in our kids. I don't NECESSARILLY think that forbidding something is going to just make kids want to do it, though. They're not THAT dumb ;) So I wouldn't let my kids read something just...

Here here! I agree with you on both points! My least favorite Disney movie is "Cinderella". It frustrates me to no end. I don't want my (future) girls to think the right thing to do is sit around and let people abuse you and take advantage of you and the only way out is if a man steps in and...

I've been thinking about censorship etc. and the debates that have arisen out of the Harry Potter series. So I'm curious. What books would you guys NOT let your children read and why? You can answer if you haven't got kids, just pretend you do :).

Good list. To it I'd add the Lemony Snicket books, there's quite a spunky little girl in there. I've found it mostly depends on the time period and culture you're dealing with when it comes to how books deal with women/girls. But, for example, I think the Little House on the Prairie books...

If I HAD to narrow it down to three (which it seems I do): Tess of the D'Urberville - What a book! Not the Jane Austin style I was expecting! Reminded be a bit of the Scarlet Letter without all the absurd symbolism! It deals with similar themes. A little slow to get into, but halfway...

I completely agree. I've read the book twice, once to myself and the second time outloud with a friend. There was so much I admired about it, though I didn't agree with everything he said about religion. One of his major points was "all religions are true," which as a Christian I must...

Oh! Haha! I almost forgot to say (shields herself from the blows) I can't stand Walt Whitman. I find him too self-centered. Hate me if you must :)

Has anyone read any Pablo Neruda? I'm not one for sappy love poems, but I must say I can't get enough Neruda. The poems are translated from spanish, and its got quite a different flair if you're used to strictly english poetry. Quite a bit....how can I say...."fleshier". I recomend "Tonight...