Stupid question.

Doesn't seem like a stupid question to me, I haven't even seen warnings on the covers of books (seems like Choke would be a good candidate for that), though comics get it all the time.

Weird.

well, it probably has something to do with the fact that 99% of the people who watch movies and then reenact the stunts/events pictured - and i specifically remember some dillholes laying down on highway centerlines after seeing it done in a movie - are not the type who are inclined to pick up a book anyway....

here--- American Psycho was paper-bagged and sold under the counter here for a while. since then, its been plasticked up with an R18+ sticker on it.

that's an interesting point. as far as this here Cult goes, it seems there are a lot more proactive readers with vivid imaginations that would actually act on their "bad" influences, whereas the large majority of move goers would just run their mouths about the taboo shit they'd like to go do.

supposedly you have to be 17 to see an R rated movie here in NC, but there's a theater near here that won't let you in unless you're 18. of course right next door is a Borders Books where there's only an age limit on the porn.

loop holes and double standards rock!!

[QUOTE=TastesLikeChicken]well, it probably has something to do with the fact that 99% of the people who watch movies and then reenact the stunts/events pictured - and i specifically remember some dillholes laying down on highway centerlines after seeing it done in a movie - are not the type who are inclined to pick up a book anyway....[/QUOTE]

I'm betting that there's more right wing neo nazi groups spawned by books than by films.

I don't know of any myself, but I'm guessing that Hilter never had access to a VCR and a copy of Rambo.

Yes, I've been carded for books. The last one was last week -- Informers by Bret Easton.

But then again I get carded for sinus medicine as well. But I generally don't get carded when I buy my Newports.

Just. Fucking. Retarded.

[QUOTE=Pooka]...I don't know of any myself, but I'm guessing that Hilter never had access to a VCR and a copy of Rambo.[/QUOTE]

i don't know. i've heard hitler really died from a blood clot while he was masturbating to his favorite stallone movie, Rambo.

[QUOTE=Pooka]I'm betting that there's more right wing neo nazi groups spawned by books than by films.

I don't know of any myself, but I'm guessing that Hilter never had access to a VCR and a copy of Rambo.[/QUOTE]

you're absolutely right. i was just thinking about how here we have tons of 'banned books' that aren't available in school or public libraries. but then again, right wing neo nazi groups will complain about pretty much anything these days.

funny though, Rambo was a book before it was a movie....

[QUOTE=TastesLikeChicken][size=1]...funny though, [color=red]Rambo[/color] was a book before it was a movie...[/size][/QUOTE]

I did not know that. [color=red]Rambo[/color], orginally a book? Who woulda thought to thunk it? Funny funny. Was it any good? Do you know the author's name?
[size=3][color=black]Holla[/color][/size]

im pretty sure it was tony hillerman, but ill check for sure

I have always wondered this, actually.
And, being serious for a second, I do believe that there was one film that Hiter favoured- he was quite the cinophile (I'm sure I just made that word up, but oh well). it was about a British hero who basically massacred some Turks, I think.

[QUOTE=JKabol]I did not know that. [color=red]Rambo[/color], orginally a book? Who woulda thought to thunk it? Funny funny. Was it any good? Do you know the author's name?
[size=3][color=black]Holla[/color][/size][/QUOTE]
no, it wasn't tony hillerman. it was, um, the guy who wrote brotherhood of the rose...um, David Morrell. That's who wrote Rambo, but it wasn't called Rambo. It was First Blood or something.

yeah, it's david morrell...i get author's i haven't read mixed up all the time.

and yeah, it was called first blood

[QUOTE=TastesLikeChicken]yeah, it's david morrell...i get author's i haven't read mixed up all the time.[/QUOTE]
Same here. I would have never remember'd Palahniuk if I'd not read at least one of his novels. And JT Leroy I couldn't remember for the life of me until I read Deceitful. Same with Easton Ellis and Hempel and, well, every other writer out there. If I ain't read them, then they ain't homie enough to be remember'd.

Oh, and I'll check into 1st blood. I'm just baffled that I'd not heard that the movie was based on the novel. But then again, I'm simple.

Thanks, yaw.
-Kabol

[QUOTE=Terminal Descent]I have always wondered this, actually.
And, being serious for a second, I do believe that there was one film that Hiter favoured- he was quite the cinophile (I'm sure I just made that word up, but oh well). it was about a British hero who basically massacred some Turks, I think.[/QUOTE]

Hitler's favorite movie was King Kong.
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I've never seen a book with an age certificate on.

I'd just like to say, going back off topic, that Hitler doesn't seem the King Kong type.
He's definitely more of a British-massacring-hero man.
Either way, I've definitely seen footage of him watching this film and he had a weird love and respect for the British.

Maybe it's too hard for them. Think about it. To put an age thing on books, these regulation people would have to read them to rate them.

I've never seen anything like this, and never really thought about it before. I'm surprised though, that we don't have it with all the other stuff we think we have to save the children of America from.

Well, I've read "First Blood" (in french) years ago. From what I remember, the first Rambo film follows it rather faithfully, except that Rambo actually kills the sheriff guys, and dies in the end after blowing the whole town.

[QUOTE=franc tireur]Well, I've read "First Blood" (in french) years ago. From what I remember, the first Rambo film follows it rather faithfully, except that Rambo actually kills the sheriff guys, and dies in the end after blowing the whole town.[/QUOTE]

And suddenly I have no desire to ever read it

Thats an easy question. Because a seven year old couldnt comprehend or read Mein Kampf or Choke even if he wanted to.

[QUOTE=jzk87]Thats an easy question. Because a seven year old couldnt comprehend or read Mein Kampf or Choke even if he wanted to.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, but a 14-year-old could comprehend DeSade's [i]Justine[/i] and may decide to start stringing up 12-year-old girls as sex toys a year later. I know that that book would've fucked my mind up if I had read it at a much more impressional age in my life. I started reading DeSade when I was 20, and it still fucked with me.

Just a thougth, though.

[QUOTE=JKabol]Yeah, but a 14-year-old could comprehend DeSade's [i]Justine[/i] and may decide to start stringing up 12-year-old girls as sex toys a year later. I know that that book would've fucked my mind up if I had read it at a much more impressional age in my life. I started reading DeSade when I was 20, and it still fucked with me.

Just a thougth, though.[/QUOTE]
Haha I know what you mean. Fight Club really fucked with me when I was 15. I'm much more jaded now.