Banned Books?

[mmntech]

rofl, 1984 is on there for "Objections to pro- Communist material and explicit sexual matter." Whoever motioned for that obviously didn't understand it. The whole thing was against communism!

Sort of. Orwell was a socialist but deplored Stalinism. That's what it and Animal Farm are ultimately about. It's his attack on authoritarian-communism.

Now To Kill A Mocking Bird being on there for "profanity and undermining of race relations" is entirely missing the point.

I actually read both of these in highschool. I also think we read Where The Sidewalk Ends in elementary, and I know we watched The Grapes of Wrath in grade 10 history.

A lot of these people who are outraged by books miss the point or didn't read the book. In the case of the latter, the DaVinci Code springs to mind. I read the whole thing word by word and I still can't figure out how it was attacking the Catholic Church. The Church gets absolved in the end.

 

[MrMatt]

Scrotie McBoogerballs


Banned for repeated references to Sarah Jessica Parker

 

[dfuze]

Read more than half of those in school too, somehow I turned out only slightly sociopathic

 

[DanDaManJC]

Yeah that's funny, I read almost all of the books on that list.

It's too bad Brave New World is even considered on that list... it's has such direct relevance to today's world it's astounding.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah that's funny, I read almost all of the books on that list.

It's too bad Brave New World is even considered on that list... it's has such direct relevance to today's world it's astounding.

i know

 

[Anubis]

Can't believe A Wrinkle in time is on there, some kids get taken on an adventure through space by witches and defeat a psychic mind controlling brain by hugging it.

I read it in like grade 3 so I'm sure that leaves out some detail.

that book was awesome, i remember reading it around then as well, we would also listen to it on audio book that had a sideshow type movie with it

 

[AnonymouseUser]

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
by JD Salinger

Considered "dangerous" because of vulgarity, occultism, violence and sexual content.

You know, "The Bible" should be on this same list, for the same reasons (and many more).

 

[grrl]

i cant believe Slaughterhouse-Five is still banned in this country

Yet Cat's Cradle isn't. It too has profanity and sexual references (between midgets no less).

 

[disappoint]

Yet Cat's Cradle isn't. It too has profanity and sexual references (between midgets no less).

Yeah but Schlachthof Funf is anti-war which the military industrial complex deems detrimental to controlling the minds of millions to do their bidding.

 

[Freshgeardude]

wtf? I'm in high school and have read 1984, of mice and men, and to kill a mockingbird

 

[l0cke]

I've been assigned most of these books in school to read. :awe:

 

[HybridSquirrel]

harry potter was banned at one point? wtf....

 

[Modelworks]

not surprising. People tend to want to ban anything that disagrees with them.
I remember when living in Florida and MTV was going to be added to the local cable system ( there was a whole 22 channels to watch then), and there was a huge uprising against it. They had to go to court to get it on the system because parents groups found the channel obscene. This was back in 1982 or so when they were actually about music.

Look at all the cartoons that are banned. The UK even forbid tom&jerry cartoons because they show the characters smoking sometimes.

 

[Anubis]

harry potter was banned at one point? wtf....

witchcraft is serious business. it wasn't universally banned but some states? and school districts banned it

 

[grrl]

wtf? I'm in high school and have read 1984, of mice and men, and to kill a mockingbird

Repent now!

 

[HybridSquirrel]

witchcraft is serious business. it wasn't universally banned but some states? and school districts banned it

stupify!

 

[Anubis]

stupify!

lol you win 1 internets

 

[disappoint]

Wdyrbiwb?

 

[Firsttime]

Haha. Where the Sidewalk Ends. Seriously. The poem I'm about to recite from memory from my elementary aged childhood was banned.

My beard grows to my toes
I never wears no clothes
I wraps my hair around my bare
And down the road I goes

I'm a rebel, go me.

 

[xanis]

Most people don't realize that PA is really 2 states: Pittsburgh/Philly and Pennsyltucky.

Excellent, someone else actually knows what Pennsyltucky is!

Oh, and Harriet the Spy? Really? LOLOLOLOL

 

[zinfamous]

Sort of. Orwell was a socialist but deplored Stalinism. That's what it and Animal Farm are ultimately about. It's his attack on authoritarian-communism.

Now To Kill A Mocking Bird being on there for "profanity and undermining of race relations" is entirely missing the point.

Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were/are banned for use of "great person."

As for the DaVinci Code, the Catholic church is all hot and bothered by it due to the suggestion that Jesus got it on with his whore, and produced offspring.

All of that "Jesus family" stuff (which certainly is not new) is a big no-no for the Church.

 

[sandorski]

Book Banner returns from a PTA meeting where her suggestions were shot down