darkjedijaina wrote:Sex by Madonna
and a personal childhood favorite of mine that is on the list at number 90 is Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman. it was about a boy that lived in India and the tigers were going to eat him, but the boy gave the tigers his new coat and pants and shoes instead, and then all the tigers were jealous of each other and ended up chasing each other around a tree until they turned to butter, and little black sambo had tons of pancakes the next day.
Peven wrote:hey DJJ, have you seen the news about the woman in your neighborhood, and mine, Gwinnett County Georgia, who is trying to get the Grande Rojo Potter books banned from school libraries?
Vegeta wrote:I heard that a book called "Everybody flings poop" was banned.
Is that true Bob?
Vegeta wrote:I heard that a book called "Everybody flings poop" was banned.
Is that true Bob?
Peven wrote:hey DJJ, have you seen the news about the woman in your neighborhood, and mine, Gwinnett County Georgia, who is trying to get the Grande Rojo Potter books banned from school libraries?
Bob Poopflingius Maximus wrote:Peven wrote:hey DJJ, have you seen the news about the woman in your neighborhood, and mine, Gwinnett County Georgia, who is trying to get the Grande Rojo Potter books banned from school libraries?
I love that. Is she giving the same reason that I heard that the books teach children how to do magic? Or just that it contains wizards and witches within its covers. As if these books are the first fantasy books to ever be published...
Lady Sheridan wrote:Everything I learned, I learned from reading banned books.
Especially those Clan of the Cave Bear books....damn.
Peven wrote:Lady Sheridan wrote:Everything I learned, I learned from reading banned books.
Especially those Clan of the Cave Bear books....damn.
and just what was it that you learned?
darkjedijaina wrote:also on the list were the following:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
i read some of those in school. two for my senior year creative writing class, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies, and i really enjoyed those books.
darkjedijaina wrote:also on the list were the following:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
i read some of those in school. two for my senior year creative writing class, Brave New World and Lord of the Flies, and i really enjoyed those books.
Peven wrote:a lot of really excellent books on that list. i didn't see Mien Kampf on it though. which says something about the people who ban books.
RaulMonkey wrote:The woman who runs Canada's largest chain of bookstores, CHAPTERS, banned MEIN KAMPF for sale in all of her stores. I say it was a good call: the public shouldn't be exposed to the writings of such a filthy book-banner.
Doc Holliday wrote:What, no "Ulysses" by James Joyce? No "Lady Chatterley's Lover" or "Sons and Lovers" by D.H.Lawrence?
All shocking B4NN3D's in their day. Never knew "Of Mice and Men" was B4NN3D though - love that book...
Chairman Kaga wrote:Weird a lot of these mentioned so far were required reading while I was in High School
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
as well as 1984, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer though I hand't seen them mentioned yet. I can see what white bread douche bags would object to in most of these....except Of Mice and Men. I can't recall what would get people riled up over that book.
Peven wrote:it isn't the "political correctness" crowd that bans a lot of those books, like H@rry Potter, Captain Underpants, Goosbeumps, or even books like To Kill a Mockingbird. it is the biblethumping, pseudo-conservative whackos who are uncomfortable with any point of view not their own being put out there for their kids to see that might contradict the bigoted, assbackward world view they have.
Peven wrote:it isn't the "political correctness" crowd that bans a lot of those books, like H@rry Potter, Captain Underpants, Goosbeumps, or even books like To Kill a Mockingbird. it is the biblethumping, pseudo-conservative whackos who are uncomfortable with any point of view not their own being put out there for their kids to see that might contradict the bigoted, assbackward world view they have.
DennisMM wrote:Tonight Keith Olberman's "Worst Person in the World" included a bit about a family trying to get a book banned from the daughter's school. She was permitted to read a different book, but her family thought the book assigned to the class in general was not appropriate for students. Fahrenheit 451. Fifty years later it still challenges idiots who don't understand its themes. Or irony.
"It's just all kinds of filth," said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read Fahrenheit 451.
Chairman Kaga wrote:Honestly isn't it both the Super Leftist PC folks and the Super Right Wing Religious Whackos who are responsible? Obviously working from different ends of the spectrum and for different reasons but with the same banning goal in mind?
How I was able to read all of the above in a Florida public high school is mind boggling really considering the nuttty political hacks in this state.
Tyrone_Shoelaces wrote:I read Fahrenheit 451 for the first time last year and I am at a loss to think of what could possibly be the "filth" the guy is talking about. Unless he means the stuff about the government lying to the people and sustaining a war to trod upon civil liberties.
Chairman Kaga wrote:as well as 1984, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer though I hand't seen them mentioned yet.
darkjedijaina wrote:Chairman Kaga wrote:as well as 1984, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer though I hand't seen them mentioned yet.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
those two are definitely on there.
havocSchultz wrote:My church back home once told all the people in it to get rid of/destroy/trash/burn any and all secular books and movies and etc...
I was young...being tossed...We did seem to hang onto all our movies though...
havocSchultz wrote:Vegeta wrote:I heard that a book called "Everybody flings poop" was banned.
Is that true Bob?
Albeit, "Everybody Poops on my Tummy" is still in full circulation...
Al_Shut wrote:Just out of interest, in most cases were not talking about real banning are we?
Since most of you are talking about US/UK/Canada, mostly this is about self imposed we're not going to sell/buy/lend/publish this actions.
Or is it really possible to completly outlaw books?
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