Peven wrote: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...
she is claiming they are a part of the indoctrination of kids into the wiccan religion.
Vegeta wrote:Wow, alot of these books seem to have homosexual content.![]()
Iconoclastica wrote:I almost feel like this book was *banned* because of fear that it would not sell, rather than actual morals on behalf of the publishers . . .
They probably realized that average people would feel ashamed having ownership of that kind of filth attached to their name, narrowing the audience to an unprofitable few.
Though that's just cynical speculation . . . it might not be as logical as it sounds in my head :-p
Wolfpack wrote:I've never understood the furor over The Catcher in the Rye. What do people find so offensive and objectionable about it? Even considering the time it was written, I still can't figure it out.
brainiac wrote:O.J.'s book about killing Nicole and Ron got banned by not being published. Public outrage and pressure on the publishing house made them pull the book.
I believe this to be a moral and ethical decision but was it the correct decision?
Banning books we love strikes us as wrong but banning disgusting books
somehow seems more OK. At least banning this book isn't going to make me lose any sleep pondering his amendment rights.
Eunuch Provocateur wrote:I think manga should be banned. That's just shit. That and erotica. I'd be totally okay with outlawing those two genres.
Nobody cares about Magical Realism in Brooklyn these days.
brainiac wrote:O.J.'s book about killing Nicole and Ron got banned by not being published. Public outrage and pressure on the publishing house made them pull the book.
Eunuch Provocateur wrote:I think manga should be banned. That's just shit. That and erotica. I'd be totally okay with outlawing those two genres.
Nobody cares about Magical Realism in Brooklyn these days.
darkjedijaina wrote:In the U.S., some schools have removed the book from libraries and curricula because of its sexual content, obscenities and exploration of racial themes.
Adam Balm wrote:darkjedijaina wrote:In the U.S., some schools have removed the book from libraries and curricula because of its sexual content, obscenities and exploration of racial themes.
I can tolerate sexual content and obscenities in the schools, but the exploration of racial themes GOES TOO FAR!
Ribbons wrote:Bumped! To kick off B4nn3d Books Week, here's the ALA's list of the 100 Greatest Banned Books of the 20th Century
And the 10 Most Banned/Challenged Books of 2006
1984, George Orwell
Challenged in the Jackson County, FL (1981) because Orwell's novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter." Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.
minstrel wrote:This list contains two books by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.
Previously on the list was a book by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.
Authors like these are widely regarded as among the best in modern literature. Students should be ENCOURAGED to read them.
Who are these fucking assholes who want to ban books like these?
I know this point is obvious and that's why this thread exists, but I HATE HATE HATE HATE the idea of banning books.
If that means I have to tolerate a book I find disgusting (like OJ's) being in print, then fine, I'll tolerate it. I just won't personally read it.
Fuckers.
The Vicar wrote:DennisMM wrote:I am always secretly pleased when lists of frequently banned books include Fahrenheit 451.
Fellow lover of irony, eh?
tapehead wrote:The Vicar wrote:DennisMM wrote:I am always secretly pleased when lists of frequently banned books include Fahrenheit 451.
Fellow lover of irony, eh?
yah - but it's not necessarily about censorship, is it? Bradbury was more worried about television and people's apathy than government censure -
http://tinyurl.com/2lrl7k
http://tinyurl.com/25ak6m
I love this story, and Truffaut's movie.
tapehead wrote:The Vicar wrote:DennisMM wrote:I am always secretly pleased when lists of frequently banned books include Fahrenheit 451.
Fellow lover of irony, eh?
yah - but it's not necessarily about censorship, is it? Bradbury was more worried about television and people's apathy than government censure -
http://tinyurl.com/2lrl7k
http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html
I love this story, and Truffaut's movie.
PinkMonkey.com wrote:Beatty then recalls the time when people read entire books. As time passed, all the books were condensed into short digests. Books slowly disappeared, and all anyone read were comic books and sex magazines. Before long, books had entirely vanished. Beatty claims that the government did not make any formal declaration of censorship; rather, advanced technology simply made books useless. Then it was unanimously decided that men should all be alike and equal in intelligence. Since books were "loaded guns" that could give a person extra knowledge, they were all destroyed.
thebostonlocksmith wrote:Wolfpack wrote:I've never understood the furor over The Catcher in the Rye. What do people find so offensive and objectionable about it? Even considering the time it was written, I still can't figure it out.
I know what you mean... Was it because of the prostitute???
I didn't think too much of it either, it was alright, but i expected more(?)...
tapehead wrote:unikrunk wrote:There is no real hard proof here
Contrary to popular opinion, JD Salinger was an extroverted attention-whore.
Vynson wrote:Robert Cormier was one of the truly great writers of our time. The Chocolate War is a wonderful read, but his best was FADE. Great book.
Fellow author Michael Cart has said: “Robert Cormier is the single most important writer in the whole history of young adult literature.”
I concur. But he writes so well that all ages can enjoy his work.
He tried to hold onto the moment, but it was gone, like chasing ecstasy's memory the instant after jacking off and finding only shame and guilt.
Vynson wrote:Robert Cormier was one of the truly great writers of our time. The Chocolate War is a wonderful read, but his best was FADE. Great book.
Maui wrote:So the public library has a display this week, "Banned Children's Books". Glaring at me from the shelf is The Fungus that Ate my School. Is it the title alone that makes this a bannable book, because simply leafing through the pages I wasn't able to come across anything horribly offensive - it's not like the science class is growing hallucinogenic mushrooms. Then there is James and The Giant Peach where there is a sexually explicit lip smacking spider, the word a$$ is mentioned numerous times, and the most horrifying of all, James' parents are killed off in the second paragraph by a pissed off rhino.
/rant over
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