September 3, 200818 yr I've read 28 of the books named... some in grade school close to 40 years ago. This list seems to be a pretty generic catch-all of books banned for a variety of reasons for a variety of audiences. I can understand why some schools would exclude books containing subject matter that isn't appropriate for young readers, or religious schools excluding books contrary to their understanding of the Bible, etc. Not a problem. This is probably wise judgment in most cases. The computer age adage, "garbage in = garbage out" is even more true of the human brain and spirit. I think it is wise to guard our minds, but it helps to have adults do it for us when we're too young to sort things out for ourselves. I would however have a big problem if this list was books banned by state or federal government as happened under the Nazis or as still happens under Communism. It does make for interesting conversation however. :thumb:
September 3, 200818 yr Don't forget the hoopla over the world changing movie "The Last Temptations of Christ" that rocked the bible belt a few years ago.
September 3, 200818 yr UKMustangFan, How many times are you going to say that? It is extremely old and it brings absolutely nothing to any of the threads that you, or anyone else says it in. If you honestly feel like you know more about my thought process and about what I think about the two candidates, then so be it. But I guarantee that you do not. From now on, I will ignore these childish statements, but this time I felt I had to say something about it. I would just rather you (and others) stop trying to make this about me, because my name is in none of the thread titles.
September 3, 200818 yr I would however have a big problem if this list was books banned by state or federal government as happened under the Nazis or as still happens under Communism. I think this statement, along with Getslow's comments about things being banned or censored on network TV, sums it up pretty well. What the list doesn't point out is who did the banning and for what reason. Some things are just inappropriate in certain situations. As long as they are available at another place or time, I see nothing wrong with limited censorship by certain organizations. I certainly practiced it in my home when my children were young.
September 3, 200818 yr I don't think it takes a lot to get a book on the banned book list. It can be banned for one word that someone doesn't like.
September 3, 200818 yr I don't think it takes a lot to get a book on the banned book list. It can be banned for one word that someone doesn't like. Sadly, I can think of 73.5 of them... :lol:
September 3, 200818 yr Just for purposes of comparison, I've bolded the ones I've read. Some were compulsory, most were not. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Blubber by Judy Blume Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Christine by Stephen King Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cujo by Stephen King Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Decameron by Boccaccio East of Eden by John Steinbeck Fallen Angels by Walter Myers Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Forever by Judy Blume Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Have to Go by Robert Munsch Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Impressions edited by Jack Booth In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Lord of the Flies by William Golding Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein Lysistrata by Aristophanes More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier My House by Nikki Giovanni My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara Night Chills by Dean Koontz Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ordinary People by Judith Guest Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy (Also was banned by the Catholic Church) Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Separate Peace by John Knowles Silas Marner by George Eliot Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The (The title is a WFV) by John Jakes The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks The Living Bible by William C. Bower The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders The Shining by Stephen King The Witches by Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
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