Posted on 08/09/2008 12:41:57 PM PDT by wagglebee
I haven’t read it, either.
OK I see ...
I went back and actually READ the link...
“nice” books...
No pre-marital sex...
But every other kind of abuse and demonic goings on...
But HEY...
No pre-marital sex...
If the opposition doesn’t like the book; then don’t buy it.
Don’t go and scream not to buy the book or try to ban it just because you are for murdering babies.
That does seem rather odd, doesn’t it?
My guess is that the writer was just looking for an excuse to give free publicity to these people in hopes that others would follow their weird example.
This would be the way that the MSM and the networks would oppose baby killing if they weren’t in favor of it. They would turn this book into a made for TV movie.
They would try to denormalize the idea of slaughtering an infant in the womb.
Instead the liberal agenda is more interested in normalizing homosexuality with shows like Will and Grace and Two and Half Men, while banning smoking on screen like I Love Lucy to advance their “progressive” agenda to denormalize a behavior libs find offensive.
“No pre-marital sex...
But every other kind of abuse and demonic goings on...”
It’s fiction- there is supposed to be a suspension of disbelief. It sounds like the books have themes in them that offend BOTH Cons and Libs- kinda like Bill O’reilly, lol.
I am not for censorship. If there are obsessive relationships in the book, perhaps the parent could explain that that is not a good thing in real life, though it works in the book.
I wouldnt be surprised if the author is pleased that both sides of the aisle take issue with parts of her book.
LOL! This is the funniest post I've ever read!
I agree. My daughter isn't getting near these.
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Right. Because girls aren't influenced by romance, and certainly wouldn't want to imitate others.
..but after reading your link, I find the storyline very sick, abstinence or not.
And now I remember last week being in a bookstore, and all the employees were dressed to the 'nines' and said they were going to have a 'book party' and it was for THIS book...which I realized as I read all this.
Very disturbing....very sick.
what’s your view of Jackie O?
Writers shouldnt be constrained to have to write about only politically correct characters, and be limited to stories where everyone lives happily ever after.
If i recall, Fatal Attraction was a pretty big hit, and that character was obsessive and dysfunctional. Did girls who saw that film become like Glenn Close’ character?
..but the hero was the 'vampire slayer' and the vampire was evil, manipulative (although thinly written as sensuous) and dead/dying/decaying.
Just the little bit I'm reading here, this guy is to be lusted after & desired.
How Christian is this?
It's a morality play...of a different time/era when standards were high and most people who read it, at some level, understood the difference of right/wrong.
How can you compare with sexy vampire making young teens swoon....and young teens having no moral compass to understand the pitfalls.
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Did you see a post I made here that suggested the author of this book should be prevented from writing?
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If i recall, Fatal Attraction was a pretty big hit, and that character was obsessive and dysfunctional. Did girls who saw that film become like Glenn Close’ character?
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This book is directed toward teens, not adults. Fatal Attraction is hardly in its league. Beyond that, however, Glenn Close's character was rejected by her married lover and killed at the end of the movie, which might possibly make her an uninspiring role model.
How could anyone allow their kids to see that movie?
The horror. The horror.
I read all of these books. The first three were good books. Not fantastic but good. There are good messages in the book - waiting for marriage to have sex and the anti-abortion message (which is not even a point in the book) but the anti-abortion message is not where the fans are upset.
This last book in the series is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. I’ll admit to not reading many sci-fi books but one thing I know is that when an author creates a world she needs to stay within the parameters of the world she created. The first three books were like cotton candy - fluff - the battle scenes went from PG to R in Dawn with a bloody birthing scene that puts Alien to shame. And then there are all of the printing/spelling mistakes in the book that the editor never caught.
Fans are NOT upset about an anti-abortion theme but are ticked that they forked over $15.00 for a book that never should have been published. And they’re ticked at Meyers for not staying true to her characters.
So dont let your teenage daughter read the book. It isnt like this is required reading in the schools.
I read a lot of Hardy Boys books growing up, but I never thought of them, or other fictional characters in novels as role models, even though those particular brothers were upstanding and interesting.
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