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"The Borrowers"; a new book (barf alert)
The Post Dispatch ^ | 7-3-2011 | Betsy Taylor

Posted on 07/04/2011 8:29:55 AM PDT by Wading Across

First-time novelist Rebecca Makkai gives us a character in "The Borrower" who faces a moral dilemma: a Missouri librarian who must decide whether she can help a child running away from home after his parents enroll him in an evangelical program to "discourage" homosexuality.

The librarian struggles to choose. The book begins with 26-year-old Lucy Hull's confession: "I might be the villain of this story. Even now, it's hard to tell."

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: evangelicalism; homosexuality; kidnapping; library
24th State blog commented on this, basically saying: couldn't you just see this being promoted and pushed as required reading in our public school system?

Just from reading the review, it's evident that this is yet more moral relativism at its finest, by the reviewer, and more so, by the author.

1 posted on 07/04/2011 8:30:06 AM PDT by Wading Across
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To: Wading Across

Not only that, it has the same name as a legendary children’s series.


2 posted on 07/04/2011 8:38:07 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Wading Across
Q. How do people whose entire lives revolve around sex/sexual-orientation ever find time to think about anything else?

A. They don't.

3 posted on 07/04/2011 8:44:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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Lifetime movie/television network is probably scrambling to buy the rights to make a movie.


4 posted on 07/04/2011 8:45:34 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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If it’s the Borrower, singular, it doesn’t. (There was also a horror movie called Borrower too). Though: A Japanese cartoon version of the children’s classic, issued in English as “The Borrower Arietty”, will be out later this yr (OK then you have a bit of confusion with that version’s title having the singular form)


5 posted on 07/04/2011 8:52:53 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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Sorry. Poor proof-reading and editing on my part. The book is “The Borrower”, not to be confused with the beloved children’s book and cartoon series, “The Borrowers”.


6 posted on 07/04/2011 9:10:05 AM PDT by Wading Across (wadingacross.wordpress.com)
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Not only that, it has the same name as a legendary children’s series.

First thing I thought of, too.

7 posted on 07/04/2011 9:25:18 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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My God...who is going to read this?


8 posted on 07/04/2011 9:56:42 AM PDT by gman992
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What the book doesn't provide is the alternate point of view.

In these people's minds, there is no alternate point of view.

9 posted on 07/04/2011 10:01:00 AM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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My God...who is going to read this?

At some point, it will be on some public school's required Summer Reading List.

Got to promote diversity, you know. /S

10 posted on 07/04/2011 10:49:19 AM PDT by SuziQ
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Sorry. Poor proof-reading and editing on my part. The book is “The Borrower”, not to be confused with the beloved children’s book and cartoon series, “The Borrowers”.

Nonsense - it is DESIGNED to be confused with the beloved children’s book and cartoon series!

11 posted on 07/04/2011 1:30:52 PM PDT by Talisker (History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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To: gman992

Probably replace ‘Portnoy’s Complaint” or ‘Catcher in the Rye’ on the required literature list. Their work is mostly done, anyway. The bar has been lowered.


12 posted on 07/04/2011 1:38:02 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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How many THOUSANDS of toxic swill books have been published in the past 30 years?


13 posted on 07/13/2011 6:47:50 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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There should be a website with a list of all of these toxic swill books so that we can avoid them. Think of all the library space that could be filled with good books if our brainwashed librarians did not feel that they had to do their part for the brave new world.


14 posted on 07/13/2011 6:52:49 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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