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Thursday, July 28, 2005
The Curious Incident of the Missing Swears
According to the AFA's news service, a father in Massachusetts is shocked by all the swears in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time:Massachusetts parent Rick Plouffe is asking his local high school to remove a profanity-filled book from his daughter's required summer reading assignment. In an effort to enlighten students about the topic of autism, Wellesley High School is having students read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a novel by Mark Haddon. But after reviewing the book, the Wellesley dad says he was shocked by its obscene content.
Plouffe, whose daughter will be a sophomore at the school this fall, says he got four pages into the novel and the "f-word" started popping up. And as he proceeded to finish the book, he says he encountered "just about every swear you can think of, including the 'c-word'."
Behold, the magic of Amazon.com. The word "fuck" appears 12 times. "Fucking" shows up on 13 pages. "Cunt" appears exactly once.
The book itself is 240 pages, so you'll find a swear every 10 pages or so. If it's a good book, and I don't have an opinion on whether it is, I don't think 25 hard swears should disqualify it from a high school reading list.
