The opening bits of the article reminded me of my youth in the suburbs of NYC, where the bookmobile would come around once a week and park in front of our house. There was a section which was for adults, and every book spine in that section had a skull and crossbones sticker on it.
My mother was an avid reader of mysteries, and all the murder mysteries were adults only. I remember my mother recommending I read Dial M for Murder while she had it checked out, but the cover and the decal scared me too much.
From what I could tell, there were no strong expletives in any of the adult books, but some had racy innuendo, or drug use, or illicit out-of-marriage relationships. But most were tagged for violence.
Today the bookmobile is your computer, and as you said, there are really no limits to what a child who can read can obtain. I'm not sure I have a problem with that.
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Date: 2011-06-07 04:13 pm (UTC)My mother was an avid reader of mysteries, and all the murder mysteries were adults only. I remember my mother recommending I read Dial M for Murder while she had it checked out, but the cover and the decal scared me too much.
From what I could tell, there were no strong expletives in any of the adult books, but some had racy innuendo, or drug use, or illicit out-of-marriage relationships. But most were tagged for violence.
Today the bookmobile is your computer, and as you said, there are really no limits to what a child who can read can obtain. I'm not sure I have a problem with that.