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Books, violence and sex!The more I see of people the more I think what a freak I really must be, afterall it cannot be just the whole rest of the world is crazy can it? There is something of which I have increasingly noticed, and it just really came to my attention today. I happend upon this Historical Lit. forum which I recently joined becasue I love historical fiction. And there was a discussion about Ken Folletts book The Pillars of the Earth of which I am currnetly reading, and I love it. But I noticed a lot of people seem to have complaints against it becasue of the pressence of violence and rape within the book, though to my mind I have not read a single historical fiction that did not have these things. But that aside it has happend more then once in which I have seen a book critized solely based on the fact of its including scenes of rape within its writing.
And I have to say, I am never much bothered by the apperance of such in books. Sure it is uncomftrable to read, but I do not think that writing such makes a book bad, and I do not think a book of an author should be critized for it, particuarly if it is done in a way that complys with the story, of course with everything there can be extrmes and going overboard, but in my opinon this is not the case with The Pillars of the Earth or most other books I have read. I think he writes it very well into the story and it helps shape the characters to be who they are. Not to mention the fact that the way I see it, if you are going to write a historical fiction you cannot just leave out the not nice parts, and there was lots of violence and lots of rape in the past. That is just the pointed truth.
But I found this currious so on this other lit forum I post at, I put the topic up for discussion, and the very first person to respond was against it.
This got me thinking on an odd twist if irony in all of this that never before really occured to me. There are countless movies that have had scenes of rape within them, but I cannot recall ever having heard a person state they disliked a movie purely based on the fact that it included scenes of rape and yet authors and liteature seem to get slammed for it. 11:07 PM - 11/25/2007 - post comment
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