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@ 2004-07-12 10:51:00
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Banned!

How daring are you? Do you read "bad books"?


Here's what to do:
Copy the following list into your journal. Bold the books that you own or have read. Pass it on.

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
--Oscar Wilde

1984 . George Orwell.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens].
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll.
Analects. Confucius.
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank
Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights. Anonymous.
Beloved. Toni Morrison.
The Bible.
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Dee Brown.
The Call of the Wild. Jack London.
Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer.
Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger.
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. Vito Russo.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl.
Clan of the Cave Bear. Jean Auel.
The Color Purple. Alice Walker.
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob and Wilhelm K. Grimm.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Galilei Galileo.
Different Seasons. Stephen King.
A Doll's House. Henrik Ibsen.
Don Quixote. Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes.
Earth Science. American Book.
The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury.
The Figure in the Shadows. John Bellairs.
Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell.
Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck.
The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher. M.C. Escher.
Grendel. John C. Gardner.
Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift.
Hamlet. William Shakespeare.
The Happy Prince and Other Stories. Oscar Wilde.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou.
It. Stephen King.
James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl.
King Lear. William Shakespeare.
The Koran.
Le Morte D'Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory.
The Life and Times of Renoir. Janice Anderson.
A Light in the Attic. Shel Silverstein.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis.
Little House in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Little House on the Prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Lorax. Dr. Seuss.
The Lords of Discipline. Pat Conroy.
The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury.
My Friend Flicka. Mary O'Hara.
The Odyssey. Homer.
On the Origin of Species. Charles B. Darwin.
Paradise Lost. John Milton.
Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry.
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. Jim Miller, ed.
The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie.
Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Song of Solomon. Toni Morrison.
The Stand. Stephen King.
The Talmud. Soncino Pr.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee.
Tom Jones. Henry Fielding.
Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare.
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Vasilissa the Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales.
Welcome to the Monkey House. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Where the Sidewalk Ends. Shel Silverstein.
Where's Waldo? Martin Handford.
The Witches of Worm. Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
A Wrinkle In Time. Madeleine L'Engle.
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki.

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[info]koocheekoo
2004-07-12 12:34 pm UTC (link)
Thanks! I am going to do just that. My Friend Flicka?!? What the heck. *boggled*

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[info]kyriem
2004-07-13 01:28 pm UTC (link)
As we walked through the bookstore, you pointed out several of 'banned' books. I started to chuckle incredulously at the reasons why. An offending word here and there? Ideas that are not politically correct?

The time of the writing determines what language is being used. What was the popular slang at the time is now taboo in these times.

That couldn’t be the only reason they are banned. I only know of a few below:

-- James and the Giant Peach - Teaches Communism. (excuse me?)
-- Gone With the Wind - Has the N word, referring to African-Americans. But it's an acceptable word when they talk to each other in these modern times?
-- 1984 - Too depressing. I'll admit it's a bizarre book, but it requires further study. It makes a statement about the what if of a police state. Of control. *looks around at the current political system of the U.S. ....*

So, why censor these books? Can it be a lack of parental ability to teach what is right and wrong? Lack of the parents right or wrong ability to begin with? Does the Government have the right to decide what is right or wrong to teach?

Not a parent myself, I do not know how hard it is to teach right and wrong to children. Maybe some parents don't know how to manage themselves, and to expect them to pass on values is too much. So the Government is forced to do that for them. Or it is hard to pass values to children?

Final Words: Seems silly to ban books in schools due to a few words or concepts.

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[info]sioned
2004-07-13 04:24 pm UTC (link)
Wonderfully written.

From what I understand both from school and watching people, it is that hard to pass on values to children. May be a question you could ask your Mom, Bud, or Tony, since they've all raised kids at least partway.

A lot of them seem to be initiated by some parent's group or another, usually one that's religiously oriented, so that explains a lot. They really want their kids only taught what they believe in and opposing viewpoints aren't welcomed. And as taxpayers, they tend to feel that they should have a say in how the public schools are instructing their students. *shrug* I see where they're coming from, but I don't necessarily agree.

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