Should there be a rating for books?

[Dew k. Mosi]

It took 3 times for you to think of doing that?

I was just a little kid

 

[Victor Creed]

I was reading Jaws when I was 5 and the opening scene scared me so much, I threw the book across the room and then hid behind the couch for two hours.

I was reading Interview with a Vampire when I was 7 and it was taken from me because of the homoeroticsm. I was 7. All I knew was the vampires were mean to each other and that was scary.

I was reading The Exorcist when I was 8 and the *********e with the crucifix scene was deemed "too mature" for me. I didn't understand the word *********e, but knowing that I was not allowed to read it made me read it more.

I was reading Close Encounters of the Third Kind when I was 9 and it was taken away from me because "God didn't make aliens" so it was blasphemous.

After that, I just hid my books from the people in charge

......and now look how you ended up....heading a group of heathens who talk about/are obsessed with abominations and so-called "x-men" who came to be from this so-called "evolution"

t:

but hey at least you aren't the head of a group that involves *********ing Alien Vampires......

 

[Halcohol]

There shouldn't be a rating for books. A book tests your level of understanding and causes you to grow intellectually.

Movies and TV on the other hand are passive entertainment- everything's explicit and in-your-face. Those visual images can affect you far more directly than the mental images you create while reading.

The entire reason for the rating system is to shield age groups from what is deemed inappropriate. You don't want your 6 year old watching porn, right? That's because that child will immediately and irrevocably remember the image they saw. Now imagine that same scene written into a novel, say one of those "romance" novels.

That scene would probably be described in great detail, but the difference is this: instead of simply showing the reader the image, it forces them to put all the pieces together and visualize it in their head. This is what your brain is designed to do. Why not get kids to exercise their minds with anything and everything?

At least they won't be watching TV.

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

......and now look how you ended up....heading a group of heathens who talk about/are obsessed with abominations and so-called "x-men" who came to be from this so-called "evolution"

t:

but hey at least you aren't the head of a group that involves *********ing Alien Vampires......

Yeah, that's how I spent my college years

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

...... *********ing Alien Vampires......

summer blockbuster right there.

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

no they shouldn't rate books like movies, tv, cds, video games, and comics.
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[Halcohol]

summer blockbuster right there.

I'd participate in the hype-up for it. I'd make t-shirts.

 

[Kyalesyin]

They do recomend books by reading age, but if a kid is mature enough to read a 500 page novel at ten, let em! I doubt they'll be able to understand it anyhow.

 

[Victor Creed]

summer blockbuster right there.

Definitely would put it in my collection, right next to Snakes on a Plane t:

 

[Kritish]

I was reading Close Encounters of the Third Kind when I was 9 and it was taken away from me because "God didn't make aliens" so it was blasphemous.

After that, I just hid my books from the people in charge

Really? Had they ever seen an alien?
How did they know god didn't make them?

 

[Cyclops]

I think that the overall interest in literacy is so low nowadays that it doesn't even matter, so no.

 

[Kritish]

I think that the overall interest in literacy is so low nowadays that it doesn't even matter, so no.

LOL, that's true.

 

[BlackSymbiote]

No, and only because NO ONE WOULD ADHERE TO IT!

It'd become just another rating, like TV, video games, and music, that no one adheres to, even the people who through the ***** fit to get it implemented in the first place.

 

[Calvin]

If you did it would get a mature rating 'cause it's full of sex and violence.
But, I think if you did rate books "religious texts" could get an exception.

That's an even dumber idea.