If anything Clockwork Orange is a study in psychology. :lol:

 

What, if any, books are currently banned in the US?

 

 

I've been trying to find a list that breaks it down that way. I got sidetracked, though. :lol:

 

I'm still trying to figure out why My Friend Flicka was banned.

Some other books that are fairly contemporary on that list are the Toni Morrison works.

Apparently when Palin was mayor, she wanted to ban some books from their local library. Not sure what books...probably any books mentioning evolution :lol:.

I've read numerous of those listed, most of which were in school, all Catholic as well. That includes the Harry Potter books, which I've never heard of any Catholic school banning :confused:

It seems this list is just hitting any book that has been banned by anyone. That could be for a multitude of reasons. For instance, an elementary school could ban the Stephen King books from their library because they are not age appropriate, or a Christian school could ban the Harry Potter books because the witchcraft in them goes is contrary to their religious beliefs. The fact that a book has been banned by a particular group is no big deal. If you want to read something, it's not like you can't get your hands on it from another source. What would be a concern would be if the gov't had banned all of these works.

Some other books that are fairly contemporary on that list are the Toni Morrison works.

 

That's terrible, too. There are several Morrison books (Sula??) that I thought were very good back in the day.

Apparently when Palin was mayor, she wanted to ban some books from their local library. Not sure what books...probably any books mentioning evolution :lol:.

 

Classic unnecessary threadjack.

How can Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn be on the banned list?

 

 

These are very old books and have, over time, been banned and later reprieved numerous times by numerous schools, towns, or organizations. Some of the language which we today would hardly notice was considered offensive in an earlier time. The extensive use of the 'n' word has more recently caused it to be banned.

 

Both are marvelous books and important stories by a great author.

Was this list from the well known "Idiot's Big Book of Banned Books"?

This list is insane.

Was this list from the well known "Idiots Big Book of Banned Books"?

 

 

No...I posted the link above. There are actually a ton of sites out there listing them, including the ALA.

I know of some schools, usually private, religious schools, that have banned the Harry Potter books.

 

Those flying sticks and children wantonly performing magic give some of the people down here the heebee-jeebees, too. :scared:

They want them banned, but it's mostly church people in this part, not the schools.

 

(I did read where Hogwarts banned most of the books on this list from their library, too!)

No...I posted the link above. There are actually a ton of sites out there listing them, including the ALA.

 

I was just being sarcastic. I've saw the lists, too. It blows me away that there are still people afraid of books out there.

Situational books, i.e. Mein Kampf, Commusnist Manifesto, should be looked at for the hate they spew or their message of government overthrow.

 

I didn't see them on the list though, hmmmmm.

Living Bible is out, Webster's Dictionary is out, but the endearing words of Adolph Hitler and Karl Marx escape the burn pile. Strange.

I also figured to see Origin Of Species by Darwin on a list like this.

Classic unnecessary threadjack.

 

Okay.

Classic unnecessary threadjack.

 

But he's undecided...

Let's be honest with ourselves here. How many things have been banned over the years due to the nature of American squeamishness? Remember the uproar about part of Janet Jackson's breast appearing for just a moment on national television a few years ago? Yeah.

 

So if we hate seeing that, then why the surprise that school districts in this country have gone after books? In The Canterbury Tales, the Miller's Tale describes a person being abused with a hot poker. D.H. Lawrence was about as sexual as things got on paper at that point in history. Whitman's Leaves of Grass might still be some of the most overtly sexual poetry ever written. And A Clockwork Orange graphically describes several rapes and a brutal murder.

 

Courts have said that stifling free speech in the interests of preventing children from seeing or hearing obscenities is perfectly in line with the Constitution. So I ask this question, why are we OK with banning it from television but are uncomfortable with school districts banning books? Are we more comfortable with the abstractions of imagination than with well-defined images on television? Does the terrible history of book-banning and book-burning make us more reluctant to act against literature than against movies?