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A comment on Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover. Parent comment

Re:Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Fr... by alistairSH on Monday February 27, 2017 @12:43PM (#13746093)
Agreed. I assume as a classroom tool, this book would be appealing to early high school (8/9 grade). By that age, a student ought to be capable of reading a swear word or two in context without being injured.
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Re:Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Fr... by apetresc on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:28PM (#13746512)
To be fair, it's a bit more than just "a swear word or two in context". Here are literally THE FIRST THREE LINES of the book:

> I'm pretty much fucked. > That's my considered opinion. > Fucked.

Trust me, you start your lesson in an 8th grade classroom with that, and you've lost fifteen minutes to giggles.

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Re:Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Fr... by alistairSH on Monday February 27, 2017 @01:53PM (#13746729)
Ha! I didn't remember that.

But, hopefully they aren't reading to each other in the middle of science class. I imagined the book would be homework or read in silence.

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