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Read banned books!

It's Banned Books Week! Celebrate the freedom to think for yourself and let others do the same by reading a banned or challenged book.

If you want to see what's going on in a library near you this week, here's a link for more info:
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/index.cfm
 
Those banned book list need to go back a few more decades to cover some of us....

When I was in the later part of High School there was a display in Madison on the most often "banned books" - I realized that I had already read about 2/3 of them (and our family owned most of those) - and for the life of me could not figure out why anyone would want to ban them. One of the more interesting facts from the display was that The Diary of Anne Frank was part of the display; which was a book that was required reading in my somewhat rural school system (I can't remember if we all had to read and discuss it in Jr High or High School).

Have a great day,

Perry
 
As it turns out, I've been a rebel since I was a kid (starting with Charlotte's Web)! Seriously, I feel like he only books I've read that aren't on that list are a few innocent Jane Austin or Brote sister novels! Pretty much every book assiged to us in high school is on the list!
 
Yeah! The Alice series, which I'm still obsessed with at 29, is #2!
 
I think I'm going to read some. There are some I have definitely read.
 
What a wonderful cause! :appl:

I always say, sunlight is the best disinfectant even for filth like Hitler's "Mein Kampf".
 
I'm completely stunned that Anne Frank and To Kill a Mocking Bird are banned. What next, Fahrenheit 451!?!
 
Funny- most of the books on that list are on my book shelf right now!
To name a few-
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Color Purple
Brave New World
1984
Animal Farm
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lord of the Rings
The Jungle
Cat's Cradle
 
So many banned books are common because parents are the group that most often tries to ban books, and of course the targets of most of their censorship are books that we read in school. Some of the titles really make you wonder, though, don't they?

I'm making "I read banned books" buttons on my button maker right now. :cheeky:
 
This post remindes me to order a few books, like Brave New World, that I've been wanting to read!

Seems like I've read about 1/2 the books listed on the link I clicked on. Really, there are some great ones, but a couple were painfully lame. Won't mention which ones because I don't wanna make anyone feel bad...lol. Still sure there are ones that others hated that I loved.

The beauty of books. . there are so many options out there for us all.
 
Obviously, I'm a little naive as I didn't really realize this kind of thing still happened! I am somewhat shocked at some of the books on the list. I've read several of them over the years and well, seriously? Banned? Is it just me or were many of the actions due to overreactive parents? I'm not a parent, but I understand the parental responsibilty to monitor what their child is exposed to. However, I think that taking it to the extreme of having a book restricted or banned is a bit much. It seems to draw MORE attention to the book and makes it much more likely to be read. Maybe that's a good thing though?
 
Haven said:
So many banned books are common because parents are the group that most often tries to ban books, and of course the targets of most of their censorship are books that we read in school. Some of the titles really make you wonder, though, don't they?

I'm making "I read banned books" buttons on my button maker right now. :cheeky:
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I wants!! :appl:
 
I have read ~75% of the banned books on the long list and almost all of the books on the classics list. I'm a better person for it.
 
I have to laugh at the idea of people reading " Ulysses" for the dirty stuff. You'd have to be desperate for titillation!
 
I remember reading Go Ask Alice when I was 9 (randomly bought it at a bookstore) and freaking out! I think that book is why I stayed drug free.
 
Where exactly is the full list? When I click the link it just gives me a statement, and then I try to navigate and there are all kinds of different lists. Which is the accurate one?
 
Dragonfly--The ALA website has various lists (100 most frequently challenged books, banned and challenged classics) but they do not have a comprehensive list of all books that have ever been banned or challenged because, I imagine, that would take a lot of manpower and time that they simply don't have.

For every book that is reported as being banned or challenged, you can assume that there are four or five instances of banning or challenging books that are not reported. It is such a common practice, that a complete list is just too difficult to compile.
 
Funny. . .my son told me about a movie he watched in class yesterday and mentioned the kid was naked. I looked it up online and the book version is banned. Heresy. May stand outside the school with a sign this afternoon petitioning for the removal of that book/dvd from the school district. How darest thy teacher? ;)
 
somethingshiny said:
I'm completely stunned that Anne Frank and To Kill a Mocking Bird are banned. What next, Fahrenheit 451!?!
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In one of the searches I did, Fahrenheit 451 is banned. Probably depends upon the school district. I was kind of surprised that the first book my son brought home from the library was about Genesis and Adam and Eve. lol We're not religious and my son had NO idea about the books meaning.
 
athenaworth said:
I remember reading Go Ask Alice when I was 9 (randomly bought it at a bookstore) and freaking out! I think that book is why I stayed drug free.
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A kid is going to read what a kid wants to. I remember one of the first "real" books I read in elementary school was Amityville Horror. One of the girls brought it to class and she let me borrow it after she read it. Now THAT book is NOT on the banned list, so I guess it was okay that it became part of my formative reading years.
 
Perhaps I'll really challenge myself and read Lord of the Rings ... but I'm going to go look at the lists and find one or two. I am already reading Martian Chronicles (think I saw it on one of those lists) as of this morning.
 
dragonfly411 said:
Perhaps I'll really challenge myself and read Lord of the Rings ... but I'm going to go look at the lists and find one or two. I am already reading Martian Chronicles (think I saw it on one of those lists) as of this morning.
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Have you read The Hobbit? That's a cute story. I read that along with the LOTR trilogy and I have to say the last one, The Return of the Kings, was painfully boring. It took me 6 months to finish it! The movies, on the otherhand, are among my favorites.
 
That list is seriously hilarious.
 
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