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Banned Book Week

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Time to do some reading. The top 100 banned or challenged books:

Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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I can't believe Flowers for Algernon is in there. What's offensive about that book?

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quote:
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I can't believe Flowers for Algernon is in there. What's offensive about that book?


"Explicit, distasteful love scenes
cited among reasons for opposition"

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What, praytell, is offensive about A Wrinkle in Time?! No swear words or anything distasteful in that story whatsoever...unless they have a thing against references to einstein in text...

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What, praytell, is offensive about A Wrinkle in Time?!


"Undermines religious beliefs"

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The only thing I can think of is that it presents a very speculative Christinity, almost bordering on the occult. While the three women seem to be angels, they certainly aren't the winged chubby baby variety...folks with a very orthodox or fundamentalist view of Christianity might find it threatening or subversive.
I, personally, love the series as much as almost anything else I read for that age group, and think that its presentation of Christianity is beautiful.

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quote:
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"Undermines religious beliefs"

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Why on earth would anyone ban Shel Silverstein? He was one of my favorites growing up. Made me the freak I am today!

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Why on earth would anyone ban Shel Silverstein?


Referring to a light in the attic

"Too dreary and negative"

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Isnt that just a list of people giving their opinion?

There is no mandate to ban or burn these books by the voting public, right? Then, who cares?

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quote:
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Isnt that just a list of people giving their opinion?


Those are the reasons listed by the schools and places that chose to ban them... I just simplified them, for example Talarohk expanded on my "undermines religious beliefs"

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quote:
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There is no mandate to ban or burn these books by the voting public, right? Then, who cares?


This thread was started by billgerat...does that answer your question? .... Cough*NOBODY* ahem....scuse me!

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I have no idea what you are talking about. It seems to me that link (and policy) is fucking odd and troublesome, though.

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It seems to me that link (and policy) is fucking odd and troublesome, though.


Why is it troublesome or odd. They are encouraging your freedom to read by putting those previously challenged or banned books on display at local libraries and such...i think its a great way to show how close minded society used to be, and although we still are[close minded] in many aspects, we are doing better.

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I simply think it is wonderful that I not only read a number of those books before I graduated high school, but that I was assigned to read at least half of those I read in my classes. We would always pay attention to banned book week and then proceed to read something off it. I hope most people have an education like that, because some of those books are excellent.

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My high school banned most of those.

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I've never heard of Tom Sawyer being banned, though Huck Finn has been a staple on banned book lists ever since it came out. In our times, people think that Huck Finn was banned because of the use of the word "nigger," but that had absolutely nothing to do with the original reason: Charles Dickens visited the US about the time that Huck Finn came out, and the critics embraced the formal, flowery style. (Not to say I don't like Dickens myself, just relaying the facts.) Huck Finn was seen as being too "coarse," because Twain wrote vast portions of it in dialect, writing the words as people actually spoke them. Nobody had ever done that before in a major novel.

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We should do Asylum versions of these books; synopsisises with all the "evil" parts removed, then stated in a way that RIZZ would understand.

"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou - uppity nigger bitch grows up eating dirt in Arkansas.

"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker - uppity nigger bitch grows up eating pussy in Georgia.

"Daddy’s Roommate" by Michael Willhoite - fags!

"Heather Has Two Mommies" by Leslea Newman - Dykes for tykes.

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain - uppity white trash bastard grows up in Missouri, sleeps with niggers.

"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck - Squiggy tells Lenny about the rabbits, then shoots him.

"Harry Potter" (Series) by J.K. Rowling - Godless commie kids become witches and warlocks, and fight the evil MstrV.

Your turn!

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I, personally, love the series as much as almost anything else I read for that age group, and think that its presentation of Christianity is beautiful.


it was up there with CS Lewis. my favorite was "Many Waters."

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Re: Banned Book Week

[QUOTE]Originally posted by billgerat
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Great book. I remember covering this in GCSE Engrish.

Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine

Is this the series that includes a story about a boy immune to the fear of horror movies and gets freaked out by a demon with dust that turns things inside out?

The Witches by Roald Dahl

??!!

Start a fire boys. We got some books to be burnin.

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The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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quote:
Originally posted by DawgBone
Why is it troublesome or odd. They are encouraging your freedom to read by putting those previously challenged or banned books on display at local libraries and such...i think its a great way to show how close minded society used to be, and although we still are[close minded] in many aspects, we are doing better.


I think the troublesome part is that many people still request books be banned, and some places still ban some of these books. Now if it was just a historical thing, then yeah, big deal, instead it is an awareness issue.

Thanks Bill for bringing this to my attention, kind of hard to participate in a worthy event if you don't know about it.

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http://www.judyblume.com/censors.html

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