[HPforGrownups] Refreshing Innocence of HP Preteens

[Susanne Schmid]

No: HPFGUIDX 24680

 --- "Mindy, a.k.a. CLH" <mindyatime at juno.com> ha 
<One of the lovingly refreshing things about the HP
<books is that it is devoid of any lurid details and
<has absolutely zero sexual innuendo or encounters. It
<makes it appropriate for children to read as
<well.(GoF did have some things I found objectionable,
<but then again I am a real prude and don't read
<mainstream literature due to offensive content

I really don't want to seem patronizing, but you can't
read most of world literature, if "lurid" (and this
adjective would certainly deserve more thorough
definition) scenes are against your own convictions.
Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" is a masterpiece, but
it describes the love of an older man for a twelve
year-old boy.
"The Master and Margarita", "Lolita", "Les liaisons
Dangereuses", Baudelaire's poems, the "Canterbury
Tales", the Aeneid, - just to make random picks from
every possible era, the... er... Bible,...
What on earth *can* we possibly read, if we tend to
exclude a very important part of human life from our
literary universe?
Suggestions welcome
Susanna/pigwidgeon37 






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