Happy Banned Books Week!

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Be sure to read something that the fucktards of the world don't want you to read.

The Top Ten Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century, according to the American Library Association:

1. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

2. "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

3. Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

4. "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck

5. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

6. "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

7. "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris

8. Scary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz

9. Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey

10. "Forever" by Judy Blume

Challenges are defined as formal, written complaints filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.

I once heard of Romeo and Juliet being banned because it promoted teen sex.

Promoting teen sex is like shooting fish in a barrel.

All of them available at Amazon.com or your local Barnes and Noble...

not always, some local B and N's have been known not to stock some titles deemed inflammatory to local populations, but they can be special ordered still.

Banned is somewhat misleading. Sometimes it's an attempt to get them banned that is unsuccessful, or they are banned in one part of the country but not the other.

Chris Crutcher wrote a BOOK?

Gods... one less book to read.

"Athletic Shorts" by Chris Crutcher for homosexuality and offensive language;

"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky for homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language, and unsuited to age group;

Someone actually thought these books were indecent?

For everybook to be published there is always someone who'll get offended by it. I've seen people offended by the Disney movie "Bambi" for crying out loud.

I was offended it wasn't told from the hunter's point of view.

How do we know there wasn't a bad harvest, and his wife and kids really needed to eat Bambi's mom to make it through the winter?

I can easily see how many people would have problems with a lot of Disney films from a religious point of view. One of those whacky Indian/Middle Eastern religions says that anthropomorphic animals are sinful. That's probably a few million people right there.

It isn't very rational, but there ya go.

Edit: Oh yeah, and Walt Disney was a racist and his frozen head is kept inside the Matterhorn or something.

My oldest daughter (12) goes to a school here in the semi-rural Midwest...Buckle of the Bible Belt...heart of Jesusland.

But her school library is "celebrating" Banned Books Week by giving the kids each a list of said books, making them available, and encouraging the kids to read them!

I am surprised how progressive they can be here sometimes...but a lot of students here are kids of proffs and teachers at the local University, so...

I will go read some Shel Silverstein now...

There are no banned books in America unless yu count classified government material.

There are only variations in availability.

and given the fact that there is no library except perhaps the library of congress that has EVERY title, that's a given.


Oh...and if you mean "Bitched about books week"...get back to me when the put the Bble on that list.

You think it's not?

While I find it hypocritical that some people Shakespeare inappropriate for children, but the Bible with all it's sex, incest, rape, murder, torture, genocide, etc...just a-okay...

I have heard the Bible bitched about as well.

Oh I know it is...but oddly it never turns up on the anual "bitched about books" list....wonder why?

True Believers out number atheists.

Probably a Jewish conspiracy.

They control the media, you know.

They censored the preface to Orwells Animal Farm - quite a wonderful essay about censorship itself - for decades. Ironic.

Yeah, and they censored...well, have tried to ban...Fahrenheit 451...

Irony indeed.

I am happy when my kids read anything.

My oldest daughter has inherited her dad's love of books, and I let her read whatever she wants. She inhales books. Reading is like breathing to her. I even signed a permission slip with one library letting her check out *anything* she wants, even the "adult" stuff. I would never deny her any book. (And we usually read the same books, and recommend books to each other, so I know what she reads.)

But my two youngest, 10 & 7, I can't get to read a cereal box.

Either of them could come home with a copy of "The Joy of Farm Sex" and I'd just be happy they were reading something.

Just thinking out loud.....wouldn't Captain No Underpants be even worse? Britney Spears reads that to her kids...just sayin'.

She acts it out.

And Capitan Underpants is teh funny.

So is Zombie Butts From Uranus.

POTN forgot "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". But I'm sure that was just an oversight.

On the top 100 list is my favorite book....American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis.

When it came out there was much protest. Bookstores did not put the book out on shelves. You had to ask for it.

Pretty rough stuff. A few people I know couldn't finish it.

And I can't believe there are Stephen King books on that list.

Anna, Bambi is pure leftist anti-hunter propaganda.

Bambi is a cartoon.

I read it. Sections of horrific violence punctuated by loads and loads of boredom.

So all in all, very poor. What's the point in any of it? I didn't get it.

I cut and pasted from the American Library Association's Top Ten List.

Pardon me for sticking to facts instead of throwing in random stuff.

Well being a New Yorker made it much more interesting to me. I could easily visualize all the places he was at.

But the book dealt with an educated mans descent into extreme sociopathic behavior. It also was a statement on the 80s decadence.

But I figured the Brits were into boredom. Many of your shows are such slow plods to any real information. The pace of many mystery shows is almost so slow as to be going slower than real time.