Stephen King gives blunt three-word response after discovering Florida banned 23 of his books in schools
Stephen King gives three-word response after realising Florida banned 23 of his books
To save you visiting the hellscape that is The Independent: those 3 words were "What the fuck?" Nothing really remarkable.
Could have fit that right in the headline without even increasing the number of words.
Thank you for your service.
But then they would have printed the word fuck on a headline. Can't have that, someone might see it.
These headlines here are becoming some google news clickbait titles.
Becoming?
Damn. He could have gone with, "Fuck Ron Desantis."
"No. More. Cheeseburgers"
You mean "what the f***" right? You know it's illegal to swear online and will have you face capital punishment
perfectly remarkable, i think.
i mean, its pretty obvious what the 3 words were just given the context of the title.
I snapped this at my local library last week.
The image is a flyer for a "Banned Books Club" (Bokklubb för förbjudna böcker) targeted at young people between the ages of 13 and 18 in Bromölla, Sweden. It invites readers to explore the topic of banned books, asking questions like "Which books are banned, where are they banned, and why?" The club aims to discuss these books during the fall and winter, and the first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 19, from 3 to 4 p.m. at the library (biblioteket).
The flyer has a "STOP" sign, a warning label at the bottom, and a bird illustration. It encourages participants to sign up via email and features logos for Kulturpunkten and Bromölla Municipality.
It's just gobbledygook
jättemycketbra!
Every book report in high school where I could choose the author was a Stephen King novel and I turned out fine. And in Florida too. Class of 1991. 😁. BRD.
Back in the ‘80’s I had a high school English teacher that had us read his Night Shift short stories. The entire class loved it.
Night Shift is fantastic.
I read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with "inappropriate" material. It resulted in improved reading skills.
Definitely don’t tell kids about libgen.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
Love that book. There's some sad sex in it and a very unsympathetic preacher, but overall pretty tame by King standards.
I absolutely loved the entire series. I miss Eddie and Susannah, and I want to reread it again now.
I'm just happy to find other people who read them. ❤️
Everything after Wizard and Glass doesn't exist.
Cut my teeth on King, but he ruined his magnum opus in his rush to complete when confronted by his own mortality. It has some good moments, there are interesting bones in the structure, but he ruined it in the last few books.
This opinion formed after reading the entire series twice, and the first 3-4 books many more times.
It makes me happiest to view it as an incomplete series.
"What the fuck? Fuck that shit. That's fucking stupid."
I was hoping for "go fuck yourselves"
"What? You scared?"
I would also accept "Sucks to Suck" or "cool story, bro."
I was hoping for an "Actual Cancel Culture"
I could have done it in 2 words and I'm no great writer.
best i can do is 1 and yes it is "fuck"
"The skibidi toilet"
“Skibidi toilet Ohio”, even.
"I love you"
"Please and Thanks."
I wonder how many bytes were spent sending these three words to my screen.
I started reading King in like the 4th grade. WTF is right
"I hate florida-nazis"
"Those sucked anyway!"
"Man who supports genocide says, what the fuck. More at 7"
Everythings genocide with you ppl. Get a clue and realize America is extremely pro Israel. You're in the cast minority and nothing will change no matter how hard you demonize Democrats you're just going to end up with trump who'll be worse.
To be fair, that’s pretty much every American. They’re all blood thirsty monsters. Just watch them come to tell me I’m a Nazi for not supporting a second holocaust lmfao
Wide sweeping generalizations of an entire population is quite literally the problem.
Jawohl, mein Führer 🙄
I'm American and the only thing I want to holocaust is these goddamn mosquitos.
I'm not for banning any books, but with that said, Stephen King has some very fucked up books, like the one where the 10-year-olds have a spontaneous orgy at the end of It.
Technically it was a train, and they were experiencing a transcendent connection across time with their older selves, in a deliberately unsettling and transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror -- an eldritch carrion-eater who feeds on destroying the souls of children -- as a way of reclaiming strength from vulnerability. At any rate, depiction is not endorsement.
But yes, considering how many actual adults misinterpret and mischaracterize that scene, I don't recommend that particular book to children -- not because they'll be damaged by it, but because they won't have the wisdom of age to understand it.
This guy book reviews
I read IT in the 8th grade and I didn't really get the whole "transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror" part, but I did understand that they were doing it as a way to 'ground' themselves to reality. And as a 13 year old boy, I thought it was kinda hot.
Yeah. It was horrible but literally “need to grow up fast” as a kind of pseudo protection from the demon that is pennywise.
The entire book is a series of horrors. Another story that hits just as hard but in a different way is Needful Things. Definitely an apt metaphor for how people can be cajoled and manipulated into doing heinous things.
It’s definitely messed up just like the old vampire in the body of a 13 year old in the Diaries of a Vampire series.
It’s fair to have an issue with it but what about all the other books?
I bet I can guess what they don’t like about them and that isn’t it
Technically, it was Stephen King being high out of his mind on cocaine and booze. He'll be the first to admit it.
Where can I subscribe to your blog?
I think high schoolers can handle that. But I guess when you're in a state where the intention is to prevent young people from understanding sex, it starts to make sense.
Now violence on the other hand... No problem there.
The books shouldn’t be banned in high schools for sure. I could see the argument for middle schools, and the books should never see anyone under 12.
I turned out mostly ok and was reading King well before 12. There were quite a few things I didn't understand yet but it didn't make me want to go out and assault people or something
Bullshit, most of his work is fine for anyone able to read it. If you think there are exception, make those specific exceptions …. Although most of us will likely disagree
Yea. There has to be some kind of balancing act. I don't know what the right answer is. My wife is a teacher and we spar over this sometimes. I lean towards not banning but she claims the resources just aren't there to vet and manage check-out. She concedes that if there were more resources and staff available then it wouldn't be an issue.
This does bring up a good question though: Should access be
The last time I posed this question I got dogpiled on Lemmy but I feel like people are really not thinking through the consequences. And if you can't, then you should really pause and think about it.
There are pros and cons for each stance. I just don't think it's that simple as many here want it to be.
Edit : to be clear, Im not pro-banning. I'm just musing online hoping to hear other perspectives. I'm not offended if you down vote, but I was hoping to hear more your opinion.
This is just more bullshit to solve a problem that doesn't exist. We should not be restricting books at all. Isn't it always Republicans that talk about small government and that it should be parents protecting their kids? Well why can't parents just attempt to be aware of what they're child is reading?
What is the worst possible outcome of someone reading about sex? It's just puritanical bullshit, and forcing everyone else to adhere to their beliefs. Would love to hear how this comports with "limited government".
I sincerely think that access to books should never be restricted, I think even stuff like Mein Kampf should be available, just that for kids, there should be guidance to help digest it, both for Stephen King and Mein Kampf. So if you ask me, it should be completely unrestricted, but moderated, so if you check out Mein Kampf, you get a free mandatory lesson on the Holocaust.
I guess I got downvoted since one of those US dipshits did something stupid, and my opinion on it was more nuanced than "lol, idiot".
"What the fuck"
Saved you a click and way too much scrolling
There's an article?
I probably can't afford that car, but I definitely can't afford that blender.
Oh come on now. You expect these people to be able to afford to just be able to send you text? For free. Madness!
Also, use Firefox mobile, install those ad blockers. Have a useful mobile internet again.
Man, how do you guys survive an ad-unfiltered internet?
Yeah, we could tell
AdBlockers, my buddy in Buddha, AdBlockers.
I guessed right 🤣
My guess was "Fuck you too" or "Go fuck yourself".
For the last one he could just have quoted Al. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ZfahRzz_w
thank you!!!
Doing the lord's work. Thank.