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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (17566)	4/25/2000 7:43:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I wouldn't push it so far. There are many books that were good for me to read, but not necessarily my bag in terms of agreeing with them. Take Moby Dick for example. It's a classic by dint of its marvelous use of imagery and extended metaphor. Doesn't mean that when I advocate reading Moby Dick I'm casting a vote for killing whales. Reading Sartre in high school isn't going to turn out a tidal wave of nihilists. (Imo.) But it would be good for teenagers to be exposed to the ideas and have a chance to discuss them. (Nihilism comes naturally to many teenagers ... knowing someone else has struggled with some very lonely thoughts might shorten their own passage through those psychic shoals and rapids.) Let's try this from another angle. Not from the mandatory reading angle but from the forbidden reading angle. Are there books that you would forbid your kids to read? What and why? (p.s. Thank you for your disclaimer, but relax - I wasn't equating dialog with evangelism.)