Talk:Snow Falling on Cedars

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Snow Falling On Cedars, by David Guterson, is an extraordinary piece of english literature. In the novel, Guterson demonstrates his ability to transform mere pages and words into powerful imagery and intense emotion. Moreover, Guterson creates a masterful combination of a painful love story, a suspensful who-dun-it murder trial,and a social commentary on discrimination at the time of the second world war. It is this combination that garnered this book such a whirl wind of praise. A truely amazing piece of english literature! All who read this novel are garanateed to finish it a better person.

Hi, I just removed a chunk of text from the plot section since it was out of place and unnessesarily blunt. However, if anyone is upset by this, please feel free to revert.--Jackyd101 22:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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(1) The "chunk of text" Jackyd101 removed from the plot is the ending of the book. How it could possibly be "out of place" I don't know.

(2) Have I linked the "AP" in "English Literature AP Exam" correctly? That's all I could gather from the AP disambiguation page.

(3) "As a result of the intensity of the violence and sexual content in this novel, it has in some places been banned." (a) Have I been reading a Bowdlerized version? What violence? What sexual content? Could anyone specify? (b) Banned in some places?? Where? The link to List of banned books is misleading rather than helpful: Snow Falling on Cedars is not even mentioned there.

(4) "David Guterson seems to have a strange obsession with the male sexual organ. Throughout the work, he makes several references to size, functionality, color, etc." That's all there is to say about themes in the novel? And again: Have I read a different book?

I'd like to wait for reactions before I make any changes. <KF> 18:48, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I live in Australia and the edition we have published here has plenty of violence and sexually graphic stuff. Maybe American publications have been censored to avoid condemnation from the largely conservative majority there? --Jaymo 14:50, 8 November 2006 (UTC)