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Post by Basket1lady on Jun 4, 2015 19:44:35 GMT
DS read them about that age. He got them from the school library and I never questioned if they were appropriate. Then I saw the first episode of the show. Yikes! DH read them and said they weren't as bad as the show, but that there were some explicit scenes in the books, both with sex and with violence. We talked to him and he seemed fine--not scarred for life! I would probably have chosen to have him be older before he read the books, but that was water already under the bridge. Maybe 17 or 18.
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Post by nightnurse on Jun 4, 2015 20:18:03 GMT
Just my opinion-the violence
In Outlander has a purpose and there is no glorification of it. It's awful and accepted as awful. The violence in GOT is a bit gratuitous and doesn't share the same gravity.
That being said, at fifteen, I read whatever I wanted and I have no intention of censoring my daughter's reading when she gets to be 15. Reading Has it's own benefits
That tv does not so I am much more likely to censor movies or shows than books.
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Post by chaosisapony on Jun 4, 2015 20:53:30 GMT
In 1997 my step dad bought Game of Thrones off the clearance table at the local bookstore. He read it and loved it so I read it next. I was 13. The book is really not as explicit as the show and I wouldn't have a problem with a 15 year old reading the series.
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Post by Zee on Jun 4, 2015 21:18:37 GMT
Fifteen is more than old enough. The books are full of violence and some sex, but it's not nearly as explicit nor gratuitous as the show.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 21:49:59 GMT
Thank goodness my mom never censored my books. I was and still am a voracious reader.
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Post by mimima on Jun 4, 2015 21:54:40 GMT
While 15 is five and ten, it's also 20 minus five. He'll be fine.
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Post by brina on Jun 4, 2015 23:17:29 GMT
I do not censor anything my 15-year-old twins read. I think one of them has read GOT, although I have not.
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Post by Miss Lerins Momma on Jun 4, 2015 23:24:02 GMT
I've read all of the books and I think 15-16 is old enough.
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