I read that book when I was too young to pick up on much of what was objectionable (I remember scandalizing my class as an eleven-year-old by bringing in Friday with that infamous cover to read while killing time in between assignments, and I think that was from the same period); it's only looking back on it that I am completely appalled.
Re: Yes. Yes, it is.
Date: 2006-02-15 07:43 pm (UTC)I read that book when I was too young to pick up on much of what was objectionable (I remember scandalizing my class as an eleven-year-old by bringing in Friday with that infamous cover to read while killing time in between assignments, and I think that was from the same period); it's only looking back on it that I am completely appalled.