[ SECRET POST #2841 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2841 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[iggy]

No. 'The media' is different from 'children who read his books'. As a kid you don't really register how dark his stories are, but as an adult you do, and adults like to talk about it.

American kids don't view his books any different than other kids. I'm honestly confused by this secret.

[(Anonymous)]

Agree. I also think the media has trouble (or pretends to have trouble) dealing with the "discovery" of his work for adults--I feel rehashed shock stories over someone finding Uncle Oswald or some of his short stories (The Landlady, the thing with the rack of lamb. . .) and then looks back at the children's stories with that in mind, come up pretty often.

I also think the media isn't great at discussing dark humor, specifically, (as opposed to more straightforward scares) in children's books--partly because how kids react to it can be hugely different based on temperment. When I worked in a children's bookstore, a mother came in and yelled at me because her kid had been so upset by A Series of Unfortunate Events (which I hadn't recommended or sold to them, incidentally.)