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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:13:59 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:41:55 -0400, Warp wrote:
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>> > Yeah, but in this case with a much higher probability.
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>> Possibly, yes.
>
> Not that I'm opposed to the original idea. I'm just stating the
> sad facts.
Oh, same here - I'm quite intrigued by Greg's story idea.
I'm the sort who can watch or read fairly gruesome fiction (though I
don't like "slash horror" - I like there to be an actual story, ala Law &
Order, for example) and switch my mind to "this is fiction" mode (though
I have a harder time with L&O: Special Victims Unit, because it tends to
be sex crimes involving kids as victims); my wife, however, can't watch
or read anything like this because she gets very empathetic/sympathetic
to the characters, even if they're fictional.
Raymond Feist's _Faerie Tale_ is an excellent book in this genre - the
kids are the heroes, and a cat is eviscerated in the process. I loved
that book and have reread it several times, but my wife read it once and
got to the first scene where the kids were in real danger and decided not
to read any further; her son was about the same age as the kids in the
book, and it was just a bit too close to home for her as a parent. I
don't think she read the bit about the cat - same sort of thing there as
with the kids.
The thing that makes that sort of thing really terrifying for her is that
kids/animals don't know *why* the bad things are happening, so for Greg's
story if the kids demonstrate an understanding about what's going on
(which, in retrospect, is also a reason why the HP books are perhaps more
acceptable in this regard -they understand they and are not "innocent
bystanders" and know what the stakes are), that makes it less
"politically incorrect".
Jim
Jim
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