They both sound pretty bad! I have never seen a book with blacked-out words like that, nor so many that it made the sentences unreadable. I've seen ones that put just the first letter and then a dash- so you can guess immediately what the word is, which kind of makes it pointless anyway in my opinion.
Yeah, both ways are bad. What's the point of censoring if you can effortlessly read the word? But Ness's method was sort of worse, because I had to keep thinking what word was meant. Some were easy (shit/fuck used as insults), but in the middle of sex scenes I really, REALLY do not want to think about what word is being used for underage sex.
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What odd censoring!
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The author likes to play around with different styles and things like that. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes not.
If the characters hadn't been aware it was happening, I'd have been somewhat more okay with it.
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They both sound pretty bad! I have never seen a book with blacked-out words like that, nor so many that it made the sentences unreadable. I've seen ones that put just the first letter and then a dash- so you can guess immediately what the word is, which kind of makes it pointless anyway in my opinion.
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Yeah, both ways are bad. What's the point of censoring if you can effortlessly read the word? But Ness's method was sort of worse, because I had to keep thinking what word was meant. Some were easy (shit/fuck used as insults), but in the middle of sex scenes I really, REALLY do not want to think about what word is being used for underage sex.
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Ugh, no kidding. Just leave all those details out, it's enough to know what they were doing in the abstract sense.
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