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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I didn't have trouble with those things, I'm just saying they're hardly hallmarks of children's literature.
Nope, just saying it's not what I'd describe as a children's book. I myself read On the Beach and Johnny Got His Gun in junior high (on my own, not for class) and loved both of them. I still wouldn't describe either of them as children's literature.
To be honest I found Oryx and Crake kind of hard to get through. Not because it was difficult to read, just because most of it was kind of dull. I liked the premise but I thought it could have been better executed.
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I can agree with everything you said. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed pretty much, I can tell I came off wrong. I was just saying that those topics can be alluded to, referenced to in a children's book. I don't take issue with it. I feel like if I had a kid, I wouldn't shelter him/her/it. I'd chaperone and hand hold through the blood and gore of violent videogames or movies, or what have you. It'll probably mostly fly right over their wee heads but condition them subconciously to the facts of life in a post-apocalyptic Earth, if they make it.
Anyway...
I'm reading this book called "How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC". Sort of a corny title, but I'm glad I got it...it's got at least a hundred rappers in the book explaining through quotes how they do this and that, or what inspires them, or etc. etc.
I can post up a few quotes later, because some are really insightful.
Off the top of my head, I remember seeing MC Shan, Tajai of Souls of Mischief, Myka 9, Gift of Gab, and Aesop Rock in the first chapter or two, plus a bunch of cats I don't care about like Will.i.am and so on, but even their advice is interesting.
Really well put together.
