For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 28, 2009

Aww, poor John, he looks sooooo disappointed! :o)

Besides, they keep those books in the classroom! xD

It does show the datedness of these old cartoons.

If you read it without automatically assuming that John is being creepy, I took it more as a comment that modern literature is smutty, not that John wants to read smutty books.

Good morning, everyone!

i thought John delighted no smutty books in the listing.

To smut, or not to smut? That is the question.

What does ‘smutty’ mean?

I’m not sure just what to make of this. Why should there be any smutty books? What exactly is he looking for?

so many “modern”: books have all “those words” and are worse than any romatic bodice-ripper. I still think he was surprized that there was no smut.

The sad reality is that what John has said isn’t that far from the truth.

Some “Women’s” fiction is little more than porn. As pearlandpeach called them: bodice-rippers - though that usually refers to period (usually Victorian) novels. I have read so-called women’s novels where I have to skip several pages at a time in order to avoid the smutty stuff - set in every period from prehistoric to modern times.

I agree that today’s fiction writers are smutty.

Some of the most popular authors right now, write detailed soft porn love scenes.

Example: Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear, etc.) Diana Gabaldon (Outlander, etc.)

I hope there will not have too much information on smutty book.

In the last panel, they both look like they are looking for smut.

I’m sick of not getting on to comics.com. What are some of the other comic pages that I can get too. I only know of two. Thanks for any help

I took a 20th Century American Lit class in college and EVERY book the prof made us read had either explicit smut or “interpretive” smut.

Quite an eye opener for a freshman!

You can find smut in any period. In college, I took “Western Literary Masterworks” for English, hoping to avoid the modern smut. The teacher started with selected Greek romances (think “Mrs Robinson”, Homer was too tame I guess), then selected the steamiest and grossest passages from the Bible (e.g. Judges) to represent it. I dropped the class when she selected homoerotic works to represent the Latin masters.