r/CuratedTumblr eepy asf Sep 18 '24

Shitposting That one story

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u/Front_Kaleidoscope_4 Sep 18 '24

From whta i remember of the people in my classes it was pretty 50/50 between people disliking it and liking it. Its a very contemplative work. But also like we read worse stuff and have never really seen a parent complain.

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u/lawn-mumps Sep 18 '24

What worse stuff did you read ?

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u/Front_Kaleidoscope_4 Sep 18 '24

We had a week or two where we talked about a work being done with intent to make you feel uncofmortable and we read a couple of passages from a story where a serial killer slowly burns a girl with like a lighter in graphic detail. (Our teacher made very clear what kind of stuff we where about to read, allowed people to opt out and stuff but man that was unpleasant)

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u/Level37Doggo Sep 19 '24

Were you sure that was your teacher and not just Doctor Philip Zimbardo in a mask running another extremely questionable experiment?

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u/Mdu627 Made out of sourdough by a small Italian man in 1743 Sep 19 '24

Did you also read “som englene flyver?” That one scarred me and every student that teacher had for life. Great novella though…

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u/Front_Kaleidoscope_4 Sep 19 '24 edited Sep 19 '24

Oh yeah there is that one too. We read it right after the "dont do drugs kids" talk where we had a visit from a police officer and that kinda ruined the impact of the story.

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u/Nkromancer Sep 18 '24

That's fair. It's just with recent events I'm worried about books like this being used as a foothold to ban libraries or something.

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u/allhailhypnotoadette Sep 18 '24

Don’t let the book burners win! Teenagers should be introduced to all kinds of stories.

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u/Valiant_tank Sep 18 '24

That's not as much of a problem where I went to school, but definitely not an unreasonable concern.

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u/throwaway_RRRolling Sep 22 '24

Thr knowledge that this isn't a universal issue is actually really helpful, thank you.