.... but also degrading behavior, drunkenness, assaults, pages and pages on horniness and masturbation, vulgar language and detail, etc.
Wouldn't be surprised to learn it was realistic. But not as REQUIRED reading for pre-teens and early teens.
.... but also degrading behavior, drunkenness, assaults, pages and pages on horniness and masturbation, vulgar language and detail, etc.
Wouldn’t be surprised to learn it was realistic. But not as REQUIRED reading for pre-teens and early teens.
That just sounds awful for school children to be forced to read. You can bet there are no Christian themes or conservative political values in the entire book.
Yes, I agree. That wasn’t obvious from the reviews I read at Amazon. There were a lot of reviews, and I only went through some of them. But from what you and the others say here, it doesn’t look like suitable school reading.
On the whole, I would prefer that my kids read the classics in school, frankly. Then they can catch up with the current popular books on their own.
I posted a thread about this last week and am glad that some others are on board.
As I understood it, the book was one on a list of five that could be read for extra credit or some such. I don’t know what the other 4 were.
I haven’t read this book but know it is much adored by librarians. I have read two other Alexie books, Indian Killer and Reservation Blues. I consider him to be overrated, but that’s just my opinion.
I simply believe that these two ladies from Seattle are meddlers who need some business of their own to mind. How far would somebody from Meridian get coming over to meddle in their public school affairs? And believe me, the Seattle School district has no shortage of problems.
This may be neither here no there, but I think that I read that Brandy Kissel is cousin of somebody who leads an alternative news organization in Seattle. I will give you 3 guesses as to the political leanings of that organization and the first two don’t count.
This may neither be here nor there, but Sherman Alexie is a big lefty. For example just this morning I read one of his tweets saying that not all Republicans are racists, but all racists are Repblicans, or something like that.
The comments in the Seattle PI after one if the pieces on this contained insulting language I wouldn’t even repeat, referencing the people of Meridian. As far as a lot of Seattlites are concerned, they are inbred, illiterate, toothless, bigots, and of course too Christian.
And I still think some of this publicity may be ginned up because Sherman Alexie may replace Stephen Colbert.
They’ve started using the term “challenged” because people like me griped too much over the word “banned.”