packsaddle Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I'd like to celebrate Banned Books Week. What's your favorite banned book? I know, it's hard to pick...they're so many of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiney Norman Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 1984 Stranger in a Strange Land Fahrenheit 451 Slaughterhouse 5 Brave New World A Clockwork Orange A Wrinkle in Time Sci fi much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrat77 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Grapes of Wrath To Kill a Mockingbird and from a different country: The Gulag Archipelago(This message has been edited by desertrat77) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeptic Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Maybe not in this country as yet (though some might wish it so), the Boy Scout Handbook, or its equivalent in other Scouting orgs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrat77 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Skeptic, well said.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsaddle Posted October 2, 2012 Author Share Posted October 2, 2012 Heh, heh, I'd like to steer clear of other countries...that would make this list WAY too long! But Gulag is a great one to put on the list. I'd include it with a special reference to the tragic life's end of Elizaveta Voronyanskaya. I'm humbled by the drive to speak freely and the willingness give everything for that right. Spiney, yep, love that Scifi. I've never completely understood why some of those books were banned.(This message has been edited by packsaddle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RememberSchiff Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Pentagon Papers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSScout Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Thanks for the reminder: http://bannedbooksweek.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vol_scouter Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Recently, the Bible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevorum Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I've always meant to read The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalicoPenn Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - banned in some places because of sexual content and homosexual content. Mirriam-Webster Dictionary - banned in some California elementary schools for it's definition of oral sex. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See (a children's book), banned by the idiots on the Texas School Board because the author has the same name as an obscure Marxist theorist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tampa Turtle Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Hunger Games It got banned at my kid's school and then un-banned by popular demand 3 days later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nike Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I know it isn't PC because of the illustrations, but I loved "Little Black Sambo" when I was little. The banned classics list was basically our high school's reading list. Who could choose just one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Boyce Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I've always felt conflicted about the so-called banned books week. To some extent, it's the job of "responsible adults" to keep from wasting money and squandering good efforts---so a library board might well consider NOT subscribing to Penthouse or Hustler, and should very well consider the negative impacts of various materials. The downside of this is that a small percentage of "filth" is actually more valuable than is recognized by people on committees, etc. Weigh and balance the matter. Certainly Holden Caulfield wouldn't want any little kids hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beavah Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Harry Potter (J.K. Rowling) Bought copies and read 'em to the grandkids just because there was a move to ban 'em in their local school. Bought copies for da school, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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