Banned Book Week

[SapphireSphinx9]

I've read around 30 of these books (not including the series ones) and I think I turned out alright! I agree with Sugar and Spice about "The Face on the Milk Carton"... WTH? Now, some of these books can be looked at in a different light, but the books that I've read are great!

Some people need to find better ways to spend their time than critizing a book's controversial content... If you don't like the title, don't read it... If you read the book and you don't like it, donate it to a local library and you'll never have to look at it again!

[Optimist Prime]

Where's Waldo? is banned? What kind of crack pot society do we live in anyway? I've heard of some dumb isht before, but come on!!

Stuff like that is why I'm so angry.

And occiasionally I feel like I'm surrounded by morons. Only Nazis ban books.

[Optimist Prime]

The more I think about it, the more it bothers me. Where's Waldo? is banned!?!?!?!

This is proof our society is broken. Who??? What?? There is just no logic to this one at all. The whole series or just the first one? What is so contriversial about a guy in stripped shirt?

Did they come to school board meeting high?

Or are just plain stupid. Stupid people shouldn't vote.

Its things like this that make Americans move to Canada. Or anywhere. Really.

Can some one please explain the logic of that before I give myself an anyuserum.

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by Optimist Prime
Where's Waldo? is banned? What kind of crack pot society do we live in anyway? I've heard of some dumb isht before, but come on!!

Stuff like that is why I'm so angry.

And occiasionally I feel like I'm surrounded by morons. Only Nazis ban books.

Prob. the same people that hates the Teletubies. Maybe they're still pissed off about the Judas Priest lawsuit.

[Optimist Prime]

Why is this coutnry overrun by total dipshits?

[CatStarESP4]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
That list is ridiculous!!


The books that are sex related...some people need to get the stick up out of their a$$ and stop being prudes.

It's funny how some excellent books are so controversial and are banned, yet people can publish how to guide on homemade bombs and weapons, and people don't seem to mind.

I so agree with you! Just because some people have a problem with these books, doesn't mean that they have ban us from reading them. Don't read them, but at least, give me right to read them if I so choose!

The wrong kinds of books are being banned.

[lovelyivy84]

How could they ban A Light In The Attic? That was a staple of my childhood! And A Wrinkle in Time???? WTF! They objected to Charles Wallace or something?

[adduncan]

I read most of these (except for "Little Black Sambo" and Madonna's "Sex") Like others said before, many of them were required reading throughout various grades from grammar school thru my senior year.

Here's a piece of trivia for you.......

Two banned books you will never see on a "banned books list" even though they are banned from most schools in the USA:











The Judeo-Christian Bible

The Koran

[Rudey]

Is anyone else really upset by James and The Giant Peach?

-Rudey
--I knew a guy who'd let his peach hang out just to mess with people. He dropped out of cooking school last year I think.

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by lovelyivy84
How could they ban A Light In The Attic? That was a staple of my childhood! And A Wrinkle in Time???? WTF! They objected to Charles Wallace or something?

I've seen A Light in the Attic on banned book lists before, and I think the reason quoted for its banning is that it "promotes disobedience to authority." That could be a possible reason for A Wrinkle in Time to be banned, too, since Meg is a "bad girl" who doesn't get what's coming to her.

I looked up why Where's Waldo? is banned: someone is claiming that on one of the pages there is a topless sunbather. Hahahahaha. The Face on the Milk Carton was challenged for "inappropriate sexual content," which is what I was guessing -- because yeah, we all know that high school seniors and sophomores don't do anything except hold hands and kiss on the cheek. And one of the reasons the Anastasia books were banned was "underage drinking" -- remember how her dad used to let her sip the foam off of his beer before he drank it?

For those Canadians out there that are shocked at that list -- keep in mind that these books are rarely banned even here. Easily half of those books were required reading in some class in my school district or kept in the classrooms for students to read for fun: in the top twenty alone, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Chocolate War, Huck Finn, Of Mice and Men, Bridge to Terabithia, My Brother Sam is Dead (I HATED this book, by the way), Catcher in the Rye, and the Giver were all required reading.

I feel bad for any kids who attend schools that have banned these books, because they're missing out on some of the greatest kid lit heros of the past fifty years. Anastasia Krupnik, Alice from the Alice books, Janie from The Face on the Milk Carton, Margaret from Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, Scout Finch, Meg from A Wrinkle in Time -- I can't imagine how I would have turned out without some of these characters. And how many teenagers has Holden Caulfield made adolescent angst more bearable for?

[honeychile]

I've read 21 of the books, seen the movies of at least 10 others. I don't believe in banning books (even the Bible or the Koran), but some books really should be read with some sort of discussion. Do you really think that the average 8-year-old who reads (for example) My Brother Sam Is Dead gets it without discussing it, or at least expressing the fears behind it?

[Imthachamp]

they should ban/burn every book in existence.

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by sugar and spice
I looked up why Where's Waldo? is banned: someone is claiming that on one of the pages there is a topless sunbather. Hahahahaha.

Knowing how many guys are going to react to that... perhaps they should change the title to "Where's the Topless Sunbather?"

Yep, I remember Catcher in the Rye being required reading when I was in high school. I remember deliberately not telling my parents what we were reading that month in English - my super-conservative dad would have blown a gasket...

[MareImbrium]

Originally posted by Rudey
[B]Is anyone else really upset by James and The Giant Peach?

I am. I don't know where people get the idea that this book should be banned. Bunch of balderdash!

[Optimist Prime]

Originally posted by Imthachamp
they should ban/burn every book in existence.

Especially relgious ones. Those are the worst kind because they give people stupid ass ideas to ban good books. But we have movies now. Books are useless.