packsaddle 750 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 post Share on other sites
Spiney Norman 10 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 post Share on other sites
desertrat77 1144 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 post Share on other sites
skeptic 822 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 post Share on other sites
desertrat77 1144 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Skeptic, well said.... Link to post Share on other sites
packsaddle 750 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 post Share on other sites
RememberSchiff 3304 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Pentagon Papers Link to post Share on other sites
SSScout 1524 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Thanks for the reminder: http://bannedbooksweek.org/ Link to post Share on other sites
vol_scouter 349 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Recently, the Bible Link to post Share on other sites
Trevorum 24 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 I've always meant to read The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Link to post Share on other sites
CalicoPenn 728 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 post Share on other sites
Tampa Turtle 1011 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 post Share on other sites
Nike 94 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 post Share on other sites
Mr. Boyce 13 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 post Share on other sites
Beavah 205 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 post Share on other sites
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