[ SECRET POST #2607 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2607 ⌋

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

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[Shaun of the Dead]


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13. http://i.imgur.com/Lnyxfbz.jpg
[link for porny, doujinshi]


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[Gatchaman Crowds]


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Comments

[fscom]

16. [WARNING for rape, pedophilia]
http://i.imgur.com/pIGs11R.png?1?4258

[forgottenjester]

I'm trying to figure out if you're in the American school system and if you are how a book like that is allowed when books like The Catcher in the Rye have opponents.

[(Anonymous)]

Could be private school that managed to slip it by the parents.

[(Anonymous)]

Could be they were told to pick a book fitting certain criteria.

[(Anonymous)]

Different schools, different PTAs, probably.

[(Anonymous)]

Book bannings/censorship are done on county-by-county basis. There isn't a national school board making these decisions.

[(Anonymous)]

In 9th grade our lit teacher had us read a book where a 14-year old boy gets coerced into sex by his teacher's wife and it got pretty explicit. Everyone's reaction was D:

[(Anonymous)]

I went to an American public school and we also read this. And some other books that had more explicit or controversial stuff than Catcher in the Rye. It probably depends on the school district.

[(Anonymous)]

idk, I live in Texas and I still had some reasonably explicit books assigned to me in highschool. The whole school even had an entire week dedicated to how dumb censorship is

[(Anonymous)]

I had to read that book in high school. It was a private, Catholic, all-girls school. That would have been back in the 1990's.

I was always shocked at the content that ended up on the reading lists.

[(Anonymous)]

Wowza. Well. That sounds...charming.

[(Anonymous)]

That would explain why my dad wouldn't let me read it

[(Anonymous)]

I just read and had a discussion on this book for my 400 level COLLEGE class. I can't imagine reading this in high school.

I will say that, while I don't know if all of the events the author wrote on are true, the book was based on a period she really did live through, and could have very well been in Alba's position, had her life gone differently. It's much more about how the dominant narrative (In this case, the wealthy male's) often glosses over, excuses, and straight-out excludes the ugly bits of history. Pay attention to which narrator tells which stories, and it'll give a hint as to why they may be as explicit/gross as they are.

Also, I don't really think you can say that Communism was thrown in there for shock value, considering that's what actually happened historically.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's kind of weird. It's like reading a book about WWII and complaining that fascism was just thrown in for shock value.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I was really wondering how she so totally missed the context of the narrative if she was reading for class...

[lynx]

It's common to have it here in the last year of high school, but for the life of me, I can't see a high school in ANY other country listing this as an obligatory reading :/ You need a ton of background info to really get it, and specially in the US, I don't think House of the Spirits would be required unless in an Latin American Lit/Studies course.

[(Anonymous)]

I just want to throw this out there: This is a really good book to read, because it responds to "100 Years of Solitude" from the feminist perspective. All of those things do happen in the book, but they are meant to be just as horrific as they sound, and I really don't think it's done for shock value. It's showing the abuses that can take place in a patriarchal society where men in power are not held accountable for their actions.

The book takes place in Chile, primarily during the periods of unrest as the Communist party was ousted in a military coup (largely made possible by President Nixon here in the US) during which the opposition to the military leaders were pretty uniformly "disappeared". Allende lived during this time herself, and actually had to flee the country before she was disappeared as well.

I wouldn't call this poorly written, but if the OP read this when they were 16 I can see why they would be traumatized and hate the text so much.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember really liking One Hundred Years of Solitude when I had to read it for high school, so I'll have to check this one out. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, see, NOW I'm interested. I adored 100 Years Of Solitude (and if you liked it, you should read Palomar, by Beto Hernandez) and the idea of seeing a feminist response to it definitely intrigues me. Gotta be better than Wide Sargasso Sea, anyway...

[lynx]

Chiming in as F!S Resident Chilean to say I absolutely despise Isabel Allende, it fills me with shame to know she's the second-most well known of our writers 8Db But, as for the communism themes in the book - no, that part wasn't thrown in for shock value. Here, have a basic link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

The 11 September 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the Cold War and the history of Chile. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the conservative-dominated Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, Allende was overthrown by the armed forces and national police. <- President Allende was her uncle.

He has better views on queer issues by the time she wrote Eva Luna, though, but she's still mediocre o/

[(Anonymous)]

Don't apologize for the fact that outside your own country people have a completely biased view of your authors: I think we all have similar experiences as yours. And by we, I mean anyone from a non-English speaking country.

I mean, having our greatest and best authors be completely unknown while the ones which are boring or mediocre are famous for one reason or another. Usually better marketing or translation or whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

If she's the second best known, I pray to god that Neruda is the first. Unless you're only looking at fiction and not poetry.

OP:

[(Anonymous)]

To clarify, I go to a private prep school (that's relatively liberal) I actually adored the teacher of the class, I just thought the book was awful

[herpymcderp]

Grade 10? Where are you even going to school?

Unless there are no actual depictions of sex and it's all just symbolic or something.

[(Anonymous)]

Whoa, there was homosexuality in that book?! Granted, I only read it once like ~10 years ago, but I think even then I'd remember something like that!