[ SECRET POST #2759 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2759 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I originally read this book because it was banned in my high school. I wanted to see WHY it was banned. Honestly? I still have no idea. I couldn't relate to really anyone in the book at all, and I tried re-reading it a couple times, just in case I missed something, and still nada. Nothing. It's an okay book, sure. But I don't think it's this OMG BEST BOOK EVAR that some people make it out to be.

[(Anonymous)]

WHy is everyone so obsessed with ~relating~ to characters? Can't you find characters interesting even if you don't relate to them?

This attitude has always struck me as supremely narcissistic in the extreme on the parts of both readers and the writers who pander to them -- "I can't care about anyone unless I see myself in them waaaahhh!"

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting, maybe. But even so, I'm not likely to care about them. When I think about works of fiction that I love, I can usually relate to a majority of the characters involved, no matter how different they are. There's usually at least one characteristic of theirs that I identify with.

Without that, I can't connect to them. If I can't connect to them on any emotional level, then no matter how interesting their plight, I do not care.

(Mostly I'm thinking of Katniss here. I could not relate to her, I didn't care for her narration, and as a result, since the first book is entirely her POV, I lost interest & never finished the series.)

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+1

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DA

For me, it's more important when a story is told from a first person perspective. If I think the character is interesting I'll be on board. But I find I enjoy it more if what the character is thinking I can relate to instead of constantly questioning it. It's like being in the head of someone I don't hate, but don't particularly. It's just not that interesting. As opposed to being inside the head of someone I really hate/like.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. I read it as a teenager because one of my friends adored it, and to this day I cannot understand why. (In hindsight, she had very unusual reading taste all around.) I spent the entire book bored more than anything.

[toku_mei]

Was it banned because of severe language, drugs, prostitution and homosexuality? Just a guess. :P

[(Anonymous)]

When it was written, a teenage narrator who was smart but vulgar and scathingly critical of authority, and society, was not the overdone theme it is today. It was viewed as extremely shocking and dangerous.

If it were written today it probably wouldn't be banned as widely (It still would, for language at least. "Swear words" is one of the easiest ways to get a book banned because it's so concrete.) It still is because people don't know exactly why they're banning something, just knowing it's always been banned is enough.