tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30845563.post424612221097698827..comments2023-10-02T11:48:01.515-04:00Comments on Journey Woman: Higher Power of Lucky - Wonderful and ControversialNancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09565452997974328700noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30845563.post-16375745818917254812008-03-31T22:27:00.000-04:002008-03-31T22:27:00.000-04:00Playing the devils advocate here...I can see why s...Playing the devils advocate here...I can see why some parents wouldn't want their 10 year old reading this book and the "word" mainly bc they aren't ready to answer the questions that follow. I do not believe that it should be banned from libraries; I for one loved the book. However, we live in a time where anyone and everyone is publicly afraid of the reaction of another and so we allow little hissy fits to cause an uproar. It's an unfortunate truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30845563.post-69427432359198500122007-02-21T21:42:00.000-05:002007-02-21T21:42:00.000-05:00Thanks for your comment Oliver. I agree that life...Thanks for your comment Oliver. I agree that life is best viewed with open eyes.<BR/><BR/>I will say that there are many more Americans who fall in the middle of the two extremes you described. Same as most countries in this regard, I think. However, it is our moral extremists and the bad people who get on the news. I suppose nobody wants to hear news about the millions and millions of people in the middle. We are too boring!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09565452997974328700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30845563.post-74268744049190502272007-02-21T16:01:00.000-05:002007-02-21T16:01:00.000-05:00so i read the book on a flight to germany and its ...so i read the book on a flight to germany and its pretty good. i told friends in germany about the american idiots, who screamed about luckys screening of real childs life. in germany/europe, there is no one anymore, who burns books about their content. they learned out of history and dignify the freedom of speech. please write more about lucky and her real life, wich is our real life.american double moral standard leads into two different parties. one with extreme christian education and no chance to free your mind and the other is extreme life with all the badest life can serve, but nothing between. a lot of them will feel reliev, if there are no books with real life content. make more books like "The Higher Power of Lucky" and open the eyes of them, who could not be free in their mind. my father said: life is best viewd with open eyes. you can only read with open eyes. <BR/>respectfully yours,<BR/><BR/>Oliver McMullerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30845563.post-56742486866202659352007-02-18T20:46:00.000-05:002007-02-18T20:46:00.000-05:00Stidmama, I agree. In fact I wrote several differ...Stidmama, I agree. In fact I wrote several different versions of the last two sentences of my post. In the first several versions, I took a stand on idiocy and censorship. Then I realized I wasn't wholly in support of the stand I was taking. So that's why I ended up just saying, "don't let those people stop YOU from reading it." I figure there are no 10-year-olds reading my blog, so I'm safe.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09565452997974328700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30845563.post-18529316986387594662007-02-18T13:45:00.000-05:002007-02-18T13:45:00.000-05:00ditto to runart's comment about the idiocy of cens...ditto to runart's comment about the idiocy of censoring outright things with certain words/concepts/situations... and we certainly use the correct anatomical and medical terms for "parts" and actions in our own family, much to the discomfort of non-parents and repressed people everywhere!<BR/><BR/>On the other hand several of my children's friends (this are kids age 9 or 10 to 14) watch "R" rated movies on a regular basis, I carefully screen even PG-13 movies and only permit those movies I think my kids are ready for. I had one child excused from reading a particular item in school because it is a "hot button" topic for him that would lead to WEEKS of problems in school and at home. <BR/><BR/>Because of these experiences I would suggest to parents who are shocked by things like this that they have the right to screen things their own children check out from the library or are assigned in school...Stidmamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619908488058488526noreply@blogger.com