...something I am perfectly "normal" about:
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Date: 2004-09-22 03:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 06:31 pm (UTC)Hmmm!
Date: 2004-09-24 07:14 am (UTC)Re: Hmmm!
Date: 2004-09-24 11:23 am (UTC)Re: Hmmm!
Date: 2004-09-24 12:50 pm (UTC)*Nudges Altivo Horsey*.
Date: 2004-09-25 10:43 pm (UTC)Altivo Horsey is too quiet ...
Date: 2004-09-27 10:59 am (UTC)Re: Altivo Horsey is too quiet ...
Date: 2004-09-27 03:12 pm (UTC)Re: Altivo Horsey is too quiet ...
Date: 2004-09-27 07:38 pm (UTC)Hmmm. Audiobooks. Don't you think audiobooks are a bit long? Most people could a read a book silently in half the time, often a lot less. (But then again, I guess they are handy if you are driving or working on something or something similar)...
Banned books? Like...Harry Potter? (lol). Sorry, I know it isn't a joke, but I still find it funny that people in the US want to ban Harry Potter for supposed occult promotion.
What breed filly, and what kind of training? If she's a yearling, I can't really imagine much more than halter-training and perhaps "stand still for the farrier/vet" type stuff...
Snow??? Eeek! Glad I live in South Africa :P
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Date: 2004-09-27 09:17 pm (UTC)Audiobooks: I used to sort of think that way. But I've discovered that audiobooks let me get things read while, as you point out, driving, or doing dishes, or whatever. And there are abridged ones if you don't want to listen to all 60+ hours of War and Peace, though I'd say that for me the chances of my actually finishing War and Peace on my own are infinitesimal. Anyway, I'm a librarian. People like audiobooks, they are in big demand.
Banned books: Yep. Harry Potter is seventh on the list of the most challenged library books in the US. Alvin Schwartz's "Scary Stories" seris is number one, believe it or not. The reason? They're scary. Number two is "Daddy's Roommate", which people find objectionable because it presents gays as normal human beings. Number three is Maya Angelou's autobiographical work, "I know why the caged bird sings." Because? I dunno, maybe because it contains graphic depictions of what life was and is like for a black woman. Number four is Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate War", apparently because it contains 'dirty words'. Number five is Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", once controversial because it depicted a teen's revolt against authority and showed whites socializing with blacks as equals (you probably understand how that upsets some folks, living where you do) but now found objectionable because it has nude scenes (non sexual), frank language, and refers to blacks as 'niggers'. And so forth...
The yearling filly: She's a Haflinger, 15 months old now. Spoiled and very headstrong. Yes, halter training, walk on a lead politely, stand for the farrier are exactly the goals. Some days I feel I'm making progress. Others, like yesterday, I think I should sell her for dog food.
Snow: It will come. I like it.
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Date: 2004-09-27 10:00 pm (UTC)Re: Altivo Horsey is too quiet ...
Date: 2004-09-27 10:19 pm (UTC)Yes, find the list of America's 100 most challenged library books at http://www.ala.org/ It's full of surprises. To Kill a Mockingbird is on there farther down the list, there, number 41. It's not exactly in the public eye any more. J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye still appears, but some other titles that were once highly controversial, like The Grapes of Wrath and On the Road have fallen off the list. Judy Blume, Stephen King, Robert Cormier, and Katherine Paterson are graced by multiple titles. Blume is sometimes called the most frequently challenged author, though I have no idea what people find offensive in her writing. Mostly I think it's dull and stupid. Samuel R. Delany does not appear at all, and his books are widely distributed. Somehow he has slipped in under the blue nose of the would-be censors.
Maybe I'll find time to write a real journal entry about all this. It's a symptom of sickness in American culture. Not the books themselves, but the fact that so many try to control what others are allowed to read in a supposedly free country.