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the book presents a tragedy where a young innocent german kid is accidentally killed in the concentration camp. that's kinda problematic.
I actually was reading a comments thread about Goodnight Moon (a picture book for babies/toddlers) on Hacker News yesterday, and someone was arguing that the book might be "triggering" for kids who are afraid of the darkThe Coddling of the American Mind
... but having said that I don't think every novel set during A Bad Thing needs to reflect the full horror of that thing. Writers can write what they want, I reckon
(but having said that I've never read The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas, so maybe I'd hate it too)
i also think it's an issue if the book is used as a teaching aid about the holocaust. which is what seems to have happened; because then it's being presented to kids as somehow representative.... but having said that I don't think every novel set during A Bad Thing needs to reflect the full horror of that thing. Writers can write what they want, I reckon
(but having said that I've never read The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas, so maybe I'd hate it too)
That was Hitler's thought when he was writing Mein Kampf etc etc... but having said that I don't think every novel set during A Bad Thing needs to reflect the full horror of that thing. Writers can write what they want, I reckon
Read that in school, I don't remember so well but it seemed decent enough really.i also think it's an issue if the book is used as a teaching aid about the holocaust. which is what seems to have happened; because then it's being presented to kids as somehow representative.
would be interesting to dig out a copy of 'across the barricades' and see how well that has weathered.
I liked it but I thought it was bad casting. Cumberbatch is awfukSam Elliot is right, Power Of The Dog is average as fuck
From yas kween to eww, racist much? in record time. Bravo
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