Rock chips It is a bad idea and a rip off

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It is a bad idea and a rip off. Uncircumcised rock chips better. If movies have to be rated and TV has to be rated, why arent books rated? Why isnt there any warning that there may be extreme violence, extreme sexuality, grotesque visuals, and/or crude and vulgar language? I am the first person to line up and wax on poetically about how ridiculous it is to edit Huckleberry Finn. But several explicit scenes and on one page even a picture! in Water for Elephants pushed me over the edge. Water for Elephants was explicit for my tastes. If its one thing that drive me crazy about contemporary literature, its that it is crude. Im talking Middle Ages, potty mouth crude. And I just dont understand it? Why is it that you as a contemporary author feels the need to describe the most grotesque things about the human experience? No, I dont need to know how this character feels when they use the bathroom, or how certain things look when one character walks in on another naked or in a compromising situation. In fact, why did those scenes have to be there at all? While browsing on twitter, I discovered that a high school in Beford, New Hampshire was using Water for Elephants in its curriculum. Now there is a mini-uproar because it was challenged and removed from the class. While I am usually open-minded about these things, I agree with this decision. Water for Elephants had very graphic scenes, so much so, I had to put the book down on several occasions. And dont give me that its for the sake of the art line. These scenes had no place in this story. I understand that you are trying to capture the human condition, but if you wouldnt talk about it at the rock chips party, then why did you put it in my book? Charlaine Harris said in an interview recently that True Blood, the really popular show with the vampires, is far more graphic than she ever imagined scenes in her books. Here is an author, who herself considers her scenes to be graphic, shocked by how far things are being taken in our culture. The ridiculously popular The Girl Who series by Stieg Larson, only seems to be popular because there is a shocking and explicit rape scene in the first book. Why, no please, seriously, why is that so compelling to read about? Most serious critics finally admitted that the books weren t really that good, but that they were swept up in the popularity. Our culture has gone above and beyond to prove that we can push the envelope and really lay out the human condition raw and exposed for all to see. But I for one am tired of it. Call me old-fashioned or too conservative, or whatever, but there rock chips a point when we push too far. furiously writing ll see how this goes. 6 days ago We will not pay for their crisis. Better late than never here s a video of our protest at Barclays back in February, one day after news came out that they only paid 1% in UK corporation tax in 2009: Today s Tax Dodger picnic was a great success: we managed to spend several hours protesting in Princes Street with no arrests, and we even managed to leave with all of our banners. In contrast with our last few actions, Lothian and Borders Police took a distinctly hands-off approach, and spent a lot of time watching us from inside their van. We were most disappointed, as this took all the fun out of the Protest Bingo game we had planned we had printed bingo cards and everything. Two officers came to speak to us before we set off, giving us the usual speech about facilitating our protest, and since they addressed one member of the group by name without having been introduced, we think they might have been trying to make a point there. But we were undeterred, so we gathered up our flags, banners, and the enormous box of cupcakes, and headed off to Vodafone. Vodafone have recently extended their shop on Princes Street from the tiny little cubicle where we managed to fill nearly the entire floor space with a sit-down protest last December, into a big glass box with only a single door. Needless to say, we didn t get inside, but we did offer to share our cakes with the Vodafone staff to show that there was no personal animosity they declined, pointing to a sign on their front window forbidding anyone to bring food inside. From there we moved on to Topshop, were the doors were also closed before we arrived, although the manager seemed to have phoned the police anyway, because a few minutes after he was on the phone, another two officers in high-vis gear came along the street and went to talk to their colleagues in the van, which today was parked on a mini-roundabout. Our third stop was BHS the scene of the arrests on our last two actions and this time we had a police escort following us at a distance. At BHS we asked the security guard where they considered the boundary of their property to be, so that we could stay on the other side of that line while we picnicked and handed out flyers.