 Censors have objected to the profanity in Shiloh . Naylor received an angry letter from the parents of a 10 @-@ year @-@ old boy , who were angered by the language in the book . The character Judd had sworn , " dammit " . The author replied in an interview with The Virginian @-@ Pilot that some people in the world " speak crudely " and " you can 't put your child in a glass bubble and protect him always " . Several West Virginian book reviewers have complained about the dialect in the novel , believing that West Virginians do not speak with a dialect . In one review , a newspaper writer said that when she read the book to her children , she chose not to read with the dialect . 
