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

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    OpenWings  about 15 years ago

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

    Besides, they keep those books in the classroom! xD

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    cdward  about 15 years ago

    It does show the datedness of these old cartoons.

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    gobblingup Premium Member about 15 years ago

    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!

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    pearlandpeach  about 15 years ago

    i thought John delighted no smutty books in the listing.

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    myqcdogs63  about 15 years ago

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

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    ComicDetectiveDA  about 15 years ago

    What does ‘smutty’ mean?

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    alondra  about 15 years ago

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

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    pearlandpeach  about 15 years ago

    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.

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    BlitzMcD  about 15 years ago

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

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    JanLC  about 15 years ago

    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.

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    summerdog86  about 15 years ago

    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.)

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    Wildmustang1262  about 15 years ago

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

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    mroberts88  about 15 years ago

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

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    newworldmozart  about 15 years ago

    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

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    laboheme1967  about 15 years ago

    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!

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    stuart  about 15 years ago

    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.

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