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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 16, 2006 14:00:50 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 Armaneconalie on Sept 16, 2006 18:40:30 GMT -5
That's an awesome idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Sept 16, 2006 20:01:11 GMT -5
I don't think that's a bad idea, but I think book imagery is quite limited to one's imagination. you and I have been lucky enough to have a good sense of imagination and picture everything while reading. Therefore, I guess if you're one who dislikes graphic violence and sexual type content, then a book containing them could be a shock. I don't mind it so much, but after seeing pictures today of a motorcycle accident victim torn to shreds on the side of the road, I think it may be better for me to read about the graphic violence than to view them in pictures. Eewww...the guy only had half a head...the other half was still in his helmet...half way across the road.
LOL, Red Dragon? Silence of the lambs and Hannibal have some sexual and graphic content...ok, well a lot of graphic content...but in real life, these things do happen. I guess I don't mind real life graphic content as much as over emphasized fictional gore. Blah...Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Though I guess that story was based off a true one...so, yeah.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 19, 2006 14:17:12 GMT -5
This wasn't really based on Red Dragon.  I'd written this before on another website, after Startide Rising actually, I think, which was a mad good book-- I have past's reasons to dislike reality's pushing itself into my face. It does disturb me to know real things that are horrible that happen. But they're out there, somewhere...untill the possiblities. I vote yes, but I have no idea how the rating system would be graded. And it'd be awkward...like Startide Rising is an incredable book, with some, as they call them in the movies, scenes of sensuality. I think that that is unneeded in books, like you're not gonna talk about it in casual conversation with nice people--but that is a arguement against the author. I don't know if kids or people in general would, with the implementation of an obvious rating, not get some quality books. Howabout 'edited' books? |
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Sept 19, 2006 15:11:54 GMT -5
So you mean instead of actually writing in the sensual scenes, gore, or the bad words the book companies can just use the word "bleep"?
LOL, brings back an old memory...Of X-Files and professor Snape...oh yeah, and a guy named Triangle.
If a rating system was to be implemented, it would have to have many different levels of rating. The rating would almost have to be a shortened description of content rather than an actual rating.
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Post by Cy Skywalker on Sept 20, 2006 15:16:41 GMT -5
Lol! Yes, indeed, about the system. I don't really know about the bleep...cause in some books stuff is sorta its own thing but in some, like Hannibal, not... I mentioned Hannibal in Plotseekers.  You might like that story of mine. |
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I'd written this before on another website, after Startide Rising actually, I think, which was a mad good book--
You might like that story of mine.