Banned books...

[pam123]

Okay, I flip out when people ban books but this list warms my heart.
It's hard to get upset when the banned books are bestsellers.
Go here : http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedboo...frequently.htm

I think Harry Potter will survive and, God knows, Huckleberry Finn has been there for a century.
I don't mean you should stop paying attention but isn't it good when freedom prevails.

[SARGE]

Thanks, and thanks again. The info will provide me needed info for discussion and 'cussin.

[pam123]

Originally Posted by SARGE Thanks, and thanks again. The info will provide me needed info for discussion and 'cussin.

Hey Sarge,
Go get'em!!!!!!

[SARGE]

I shall (with a vengeance) and thanks again.

[ZeratulsAvenger]

Wait... wait... Where’s Waldo? Not to mention say, To Kill a Mockingbird and a couple others... sheesh... I never did get that list I mean I read The Catcher in the Rye and I mean... well I didn't get why that was so argued against... people...

[kev7555]

I don't get any of them. Much worse is available on the public airwaves and at the movie theatres, quite often without the intellectual and philisophical value related in many of these fine works.

Free society? We better start working to regain it.

-Kev

[jibby06]

zeratulsavenger, where's waldo and the catcher in the rye were two books that i thought about too. man cathcher was a good book too! i don't understand either...it's ... i dunno

[ZeratulsAvenger]

Lol... well I just don't find the harm in finding that guy... maybe the red and white signify bandages from a war, the lost soldier? I don't know what people are doing these days... I think they should stop worrying about kids readin Goosebumps and start worrying about, say, what's on the internet and TV, freely available to almost anyone.

[juppy]

"Blubber" made the list?! Why? I can remember our third grade teacher reading that book to us....it was hilarious! Strange world we live in; Blubber makes the list, even in the top 1/3, but no mention of other gross and/or strange books we had in our school library....like "Kentucky Fried Rat". It told about gross things like people getting mice out of Pepsi cans or rats fried up in Kentucky Fried Chicken. No mention of that one, but oh, by all means, go for something like Blubber! Sheesh!

[bigandy]

I don't get that list. Some of the books on there are some of the best books I've ever read. Others just seem out of place on the list. I understand the controversey with Huck Finn because of the language, mainly the use of a certain racial slur, but like mentioned above, others seem completely out of place, like Goosebumps. What's with that, they're "scary" stories for 3rd graders.

[mbossman2]

there will always be people who are offended by something and they beleive that because they have been offeneded, you are too stupid and uninformed to protect yourself from being offended too...

one of the big issues is that books like Huck Finn, Mice and Men, Catcher etc, while they are fiction, is that they hold up a mirror to reality and there are some people who can't face reality.

[scomac]

Back when I was in High School, some of those books were pretty much required reading for literature classes. I remember having to read some of them such as Lord of the Flies and a few others that I can't remember. When I was in 4th grade our teacher read us the book 'How to eat fried worms' before lunch. We thought it was funny at the time.

Scomac

[compusport]

Might as well ban me entirely... I've read 17 of those books

[Markoman01027]

Originally Posted by mbossman2 there will always be people who are offended by something and they beleive that because they have been offeneded, you are too stupid and uninformed to protect yourself from being offended too... one of the big issues is that books like Huck Finn, Mice and Men, Catcher etc, while they are fiction, is that they hold up a mirror to reality and there are some people who can't face reality.

I could not agree with you more on that one.