geenoo Banned

Terry, if you keep this up, I'm going to call you Fabia...

Josiiiiiiii_ Bartle is making fun of the young marmots!!! Give him a little punch downward: right now!

I like the movie. Bartle, you picked the wrong day to stop listening to death metal music.

Bender ;;;;;;;;-) you're okay too!

Bender, you’re always like the usual artichoke on the same apple pie.

Josi_ okay! Come on... it's summer for everyone... and we've all been teenagers.... :-D

Josi_ it's fine, as you wish. ;;;;;;;-)

Just for the record, otherwise all the comments above won't make sense: Fabia is Josi_'s girlfriend.

Fabia, I excuse you, but you should be more consistent (and sincere) with what you write: you have denigrated those who have read, read, or will read this book as "morbid" people or those with "repressed sexual instincts." Then it's obvious that your opinion on this text is as authoritative as anyone else's. But it is wrong to attack or denigrate those who have read this book. Your opinion is respectable as long as you limit it to the text; when you overstep to the readers, it’s no longer acceptable. By this standard of judgment, if I felt like reading Topolino one evening, should I be considered a senile old fool?

Dear Josi_, as Kosmo writes, this phrase by Fabia "those who have read this book have done so more out of morbid curiosity - like with De Sade - than out of an awareness of its (relative) literary strength" is not a "different opinion" because an "opinion" pertains to the object itself, extending it to its audience transforms it into a somewhat laughable moral judgment. Because everyone, as you say, can read whatever they like or not (without being labeled as morbid by the Fabia of the day)? Josi_, I add this other sentence which is also more of a condemnation for moral depravity than a judgment: "it's a book that wants to be intellectual but draws heavily on the repressed sexual instincts of many!": Josi_, it's one thing to claim that the book is vulgar, another thing to argue, even if indirectly, that those who read it have repressed sexual instincts. Who is the vulgar one? Are these the opinions that deserve respect? Does she respect others? Come on, Josi_....