slb Four Star Member
Number of posts : 926 Registration date : 2010-11-04 Age : 57 Location : Oskaloosa, Iowa
| Subject: Black List Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:31 am | |
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dkchristi Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8594 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Location : Florida
| Subject: Re: Black List Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:33 am | |
| I notice it's a brown belt, though. I can take a little appropriate profanity - sort of skip over it as I go - but not the kind of books that reek with it or drop into truly gutter language that continues.
Not too keen on violence or torture - guess I could skip that part. My mind just soaks in that stuff and I'm haunted by it later and in my sleep.
Yet, I love action thrillers. |
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slb Four Star Member
Number of posts : 926 Registration date : 2010-11-04 Age : 57 Location : Oskaloosa, Iowa
| Subject: Re: Black List Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:20 am | |
| I think with regards to profanity, it has to work with the story, not just be added in. Of course in my own novels, I have to watch the amount. However, I gave Robert Pobi's Bloodman a black belt and it had loads of profanity. But it worked for the kind of story it was. I know it's sad to say in one sense, but there was so much of it in Pobi's book, I almost tuned it out. |
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dkchristi Five Star Member
Number of posts : 8594 Registration date : 2008-12-29 Location : Florida
| Subject: Re: Black List Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:53 am | |
| I was around 16 and a practicing Southern Baptist when I read Exodus. It had sexual content and scenes (as I remember, anyway) that I thought violated what a good Christian would read so I took a black pen and scribbled those out as if that made reading the book "okay." Years later I found the book full of black scribbles and had a good laugh. Then, I took pause to reflect on a time of innocence that seems to be disappearing altogether such that everything is so starkly real that the imagination is left with nothing to do. |
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