things you learned from books

Leah · September 13, 2009, 06:12:14 PM

Vampires do NOT morphs into bats, rats, or fog, cannot be seen on a video camera, doesn't grow fangs, makes a mist to knock a person conscienceless then sucks blood. Cirpue du Freak

Mr. DS · September 13, 2009, 07:26:27 PM

There is a secret wizarding community hidden all throughout the greater England area.

akiratubo · September 13, 2009, 09:54:14 PM

Marriage is a sham. Sex with five year olds is a-ok, however.

Firefly, by Piers Anthony

BTM · September 13, 2009, 11:10:54 PM

Quote from: akiratubo on September 13, 2009, 09:54:14 PM
Marriage is a sham. Sex with five year olds is a-ok, however.

Firefly, by Piers Anthony

WTF?!?! That book features sex with a five year old?!?!? Haven't read the book, but I've seen it, read the back cover, and read some of Anthony's Xanth novels but that's just...

What???!?

akiratubo · September 14, 2009, 03:39:48 PM

Quote from: BTM on September 13, 2009, 11:10:54 PMWTF?!?! That book features sex with a five year old?!?!?

Not only that, but a five year old girl seduces an adult. (She does it initially, iirc, because her father has been letting her play with his penis and she wants to know how to please him. Her older brother has also been sodomizing her with a candle.) Their relationship is portrayed as more pure and mutually fulfilling than any of the adult relationships in the book.

Granted, this is all in a flashback, but c'mon, WTF?

BTM · September 14, 2009, 10:25:37 PM

Quote from: akiratubo on September 14, 2009, 03:39:48 PM
Quote from: BTM on September 13, 2009, 11:10:54 PMWTF?!?! That book features sex with a five year old?!?!?

Not only that, but a five year old girl seduces an adult. (She does it initially, iirc, because her father has been letting her play with his penis and she wants to know how to please him. Her older brother has also been sodomizing her with a candle.) Their relationship is portrayed as more pure and mutually fulfilling than any of the adult relationships in the book.

Granted, this is all in a flashback, but c'mon, WTF?

Er... well, uh, it's true that kids who are abused often imitate that behavior because they think it's "normal" and that's a terrible thing, but from what you're telling me (and reviews I've read) sounds like the book isn't making that point very clear.

Uh... I feel gross now.

BTM · September 14, 2009, 10:27:24 PM

I've learned that knowing all about weapons, radiation, and how to survive in the woods (and outside in general) will come in handy when someone inevitably nukes the entire world. (The Survivalist series)

Psycho Circus · September 15, 2009, 05:22:21 AM

Big and clever words

Joe the Destroyer · September 15, 2009, 11:43:27 AM

The old days weren't quite so golden.

things you learned from books

Joe the Destroyer