[bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Accessing Adult-rated books; was Ann Coulter Books
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:27:38 -0800 (PST)
Well, I think there are other things that make books deserve an adult content
rating besides graphic sex. I put in a book about true-life cannibalism that
was pretty graphic, so I slapped an adult content label on it. Another book
that didn't have graphic sex but got an adult content rating from me was
Hustling: The Gentleman's Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution. We
don't need kiddies or teens reading either of those. But there certainly are a
lot of books with adult content ratings that need to be de-adulted (if you know
what I mean).
Carrie
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From: robert tweedy <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:48:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Accessing Adult-rated books; was Ann
Coulter Books
G Cindy I agree. I can think of a series where to me I wouldn't
consider it
adult and That is the Calder series, the sex isn't that graphic, now
the
book I am scanning by Rosemary Rogers, it is verry graphic which
involves
rape, Sweet Savage Love, some of the scenes are graphic and I don't
like
violence against women so it is taking a little time to get through
plus the
book is 23 years old and is the hard cover edition. So the pages must
be a
little yellowed.
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From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: Accessing Adult-rated books; was
Ann
Coulter Books
> It is true that the system has been in place since the
> beginning, but you point out here problems that exist.
> For as long as I can remember, people have been asking
> what exactly should be rated "Adult." Knowing that
> there are members who do not like to read books with
> profanity and/or obscenity and/or graphic violence,
> some of us rated these Adult. Then we receive word
> from several official sources that that if the book
> would be in an Adult bookstore or in the Adult section
> of a video rental place, that should be the criterion.
> To me, that says that only books with graphically
> described sex would be considered Adult.
>
> I think Kelby's idea of being more specific in the
> synopsis about whether there is profanity, obscenity,
> graphic violence, rape, torture, explicit sex is a
> good one. That way a would-be reader would know if
> he/she wants to read the book or not, or wants to
> allow his teenager to read the book. I've been doing
> that rather than rating books Adult, unless there is
> explicit sex.
>
> Or perhaps instead of a general Adult rating we could
> use the movie ratings--G, PG (is that right?), R and
> X. But still not disallow access to the books, i.e.,
> allow everyone to find a book whether hey remember to
> log in or not.
>
> G.Cindy
>
> P.S. What is there in the Ann Coulter books that cause
> them to be rated Adult? Curious minds want to know.
> P.P.S. There's something wrong with the BS automatic
> rating if children's picture books are rated Adult, as
> some of them have been.
>
>
>
> --- robert tweedy <roberttweedy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The system has been in place since bookshare started
>> and now there are a lot
>> of readers that don't like adult matterial and it is
>> up to the submitter
>> whether the book should be adult or not plus if the
>> system see a lot of
>> words that are consider, a certain percentage anyway
>> it makes the book
>> adult.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "kelby carlson" <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 9:14 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] e: Re: Accessing
>> Adult-rated books; was Ann
>> Coulter Books
>>
>>
>> > Thing is, they probably won't. I don't want to
>> read adult rated books.
>> > However, I do not think the Ann Coulter books (and
>> a few others I could
>> > bring up) should be adult rated. That is my real
>> complaint here. In my
>> > opinion, that system should just be discarded
>> entirely. If the submitter
>> > feels the book is adult in nature s/he should put
>> a note in the synopsis
>> > for the discerning browser.
>> >
>> > Kelby
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