"The Borrowers"; a new book (barf alert)

The Post Dispatch ^ | 7-3-2011 | Betsy Taylor

[Wading Across]

First-time novelist Rebecca Makkai gives us a character in "The Borrower" who faces a moral dilemma: a Missouri librarian who must decide whether she can help a child running away from home after his parents enroll him in an evangelical program to "discourage" homosexuality.

The librarian struggles to choose. The book begins with 26-year-old Lucy Hull's confession: "I might be the villain of this story. Even now, it's hard to tell."

[Wading Across]

24th State blog commented on this, basically saying: couldn't you just see this being promoted and pushed as required reading in our public school system?

Just from reading the review, it's evident that this is yet more moral relativism at its finest, by the reviewer, and more so, by the author.

[dangus]

Not only that, it has the same name as a legendary children’s series.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Q. How do people whose entire lives revolve around sex/sexual-orientation ever find time to think about anything else?

A. They don't.

[Outlaw Woman]

Lifetime movie/television network is probably scrambling to buy the rights to make a movie.

[raccoonradio]

If it’s the Borrower, singular, it doesn’t. (There was also a horror movie called Borrower too). Though: A Japanese cartoon version of the children’s classic, issued in English as “The Borrower Arietty”, will be out later this yr (OK then you have a bit of confusion with that version’s title having the singular form)

[Wading Across]

Sorry. Poor proof-reading and editing on my part. The book is “The Borrower”, not to be confused with the beloved children’s book and cartoon series, “The Borrowers”.

[Smokin' Joe]

Not only that, it has the same name as a legendary children’s series.

First thing I thought of, too.

[gman992]

My God...who is going to read this?

[madprof98]

What the book doesn't provide is the alternate point of view.

In these people's minds, there is no alternate point of view.

[SuziQ]

My God...who is going to read this?

At some point, it will be on some public school's required Summer Reading List.

Got to promote diversity, you know. /S

[Talisker]

Sorry. Poor proof-reading and editing on my part. The book is “The Borrower”, not to be confused with the beloved children’s book and cartoon series, “The Borrowers”.

Nonsense - it is DESIGNED to be confused with the beloved children’s book and cartoon series!

[Smokin' Joe]

Probably replace ‘Portnoy’s Complaint” or ‘Catcher in the Rye’ on the required literature list. Their work is mostly done, anyway. The bar has been lowered.

[cradle of freedom]

How many THOUSANDS of toxic swill books have been published in the past 30 years?

[cradle of freedom]

There should be a website with a list of all of these toxic swill books so that we can avoid them. Think of all the library space that could be filled with good books if our brainwashed librarians did not feel that they had to do their part for the brave new world.