Banned Books Week

[mwfanelli]

Just a reminder that seems so relevent these days, yet again.

Banned Books Week 2006 is September 23–30.

It still happens today as the narrow-minded "think like me or else" crowd tries to push their sick agendas down our throats.

"...the number of challenges reflects only incidents reported, and for each reported, four or five likely remain unreported."

It still happens today, even at the federal government level. Remember the guy who was hauled in as a terrorist by the Bush administration for requesting an interlibrary loan of Mao's Little Red Book? He was not allowed to even see the book after being cleared.

In my high school back in the late 60s, lots of books were banned. I and others passed around the list off school grounds. Lots of kids read them who never would have considered these books otherwise. I became familiar with lots of great authors thanks to the banning of books. Maybe its a good thing...?

http://www.ala.org
http://www.ala.org/bbooks

[adina]

I've read quite a few of those. My oldest has even read a couple.

I'm printing this list.

[natatbeach]

are there any books left that are worth reading---sad---I read most of those growing up---I went to an alternative high school with very liberal teachers and lots ofindependant reading programs...

[zrfraser]

Never realized how many of those books I have read, and in my middle school and high school classes. I even read some those almost monthly...Brave New World, Native Son, Huck Finn...

Z

[Ronnoco]

My whole library would probably be banned in some areas of the U.S. In addition to literature in English, I also studied modern Russian Literature, German Literature, French Literature and Scandanavian Literature: Swedish and Norwegian in university.

Ronnoco

[Asylum Steve]

Funny, but I don't remember reading about any of this... rrr:

[adina]

Funny, but I don't remember reading about any of this... rrr:

perhaps the list of banned books was banned in your area.

[Asylum Steve]

perhaps the list of banned books was banned in your area.

When someone gets my humor without me having to explain it...