['Twilight' series pulled from Deseret Book shelves]

This series is full of many of the values the Church encourages in its young members. In fact, in the last book she refuses to abort her baby, even when everyone around her is telling her she has to. I would think that would be a great message to LDS teens.

I have no problem, however, with DB pulling it from its stores. Perhaps John is right and it wants to focus on a different genre. I don't know, but it's the company's choice.

But the series is not as bad as the article portrays it to be.

Elphaba

Really? Don't you see a little bit of conflict in what you are saying?

If the series is "full of many of the values the Church encourages in its young members," don't you think Deseret Book is being arbitrary or capricious about this?

As a fan of the series, don't you want to know what the reasons for this decision, if any, are?

Kent

['Twilight' series pulled from Deseret Book shelves]

As a person who has not read this series... I don't know what the big deal here is. This is an LDS-centric bookstore that has decided, for whatever reason, to stop putting a certain book on its shelves... From the things I read about them here and from what my family who has read the books have said, they don't seem to be too bad, and may actually have good themes in them. But Deseret Book has decided they would rather not stock it on their shelves. Perhaps they are transitioning to becoming a more spritual-based bookstore than what they have been for the past decade or so. It's not the end of the world. I'm sure there are many LDS authors who write decent books, even novels, that Deseret Book does not put on its shelves.

I've not read the series either. But I do think there is a substantial difficulty, as I discussed recently on Times & Seasons.

The problem is along the lines of what you say in your last line "I'm sure there are many LDS authors who write decent books, even novels, that Deseret Book does not put on its shelves."

Yep. you are right. Many books by LDS authors don't reach DB shelves for equally silly reasons. Those reasons make DB and LDS retailers look like they make silly decisions about what to stock. The result is that many active, faithful LDS Church members (most, from what I can tell), have come to the decision that LDS Bookstores aren't worth visiting, because they won't carry what these members want. They also then believe that there aren't LDS books of interest to them, because they can't find anything they like in Deseret Book and other LDS retailers.

This kind of silly decision is actively discouraging good books from being published for an LDS audience.