List of banned and challenged books

[aelf]

I nominate these as challenged books:

Though the second one is far cooler.

 

[Earthling]

Red x'd on the second, but I really, really hope it was the new version of Dante's Inferno courtesy of EA

 

[aelf]

It looks perfectly fine to me.

 

[Agent327]

I am of the opinion that people who want to ban or censor books have no understanding of the purpose of books.

 

[Yeekim]

Catcher in the Rye is banned in US? WTH?

 

[holy king]

in some school library aimee found a website of.

 

[Yeekim]

in some school library aimee found a website of.

Still pretty crazy... we studied this damn book in school.

 

[holy king]

i find it more disturbing that ireland has an actual state enforced black list, but yeah.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I am of the opinion that people who want to ban or censor books have no understanding of the purpose of books.

Do you mean do more than a handful of them typically read books themselves? Perhaps just one ...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well, about the Catcher in the Rye, is that, IIRC, the guy who killed John Lennon was obsessed with it.

 

[downtown]

My school has a ban list that contains some of these texts. I can't really blame them...lots of these books are outstanding pieces of literature that I hope my children read...but they aren't appropriate subject matter for our younger students.

Course, I find our list pretty moot, since very few of the kids can read most of the books on the ban list anyway.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well, for a lot of classics, there's always a bunch of those little condensed versions for kids. They're shorter and stuff, so younger kids can read them. On the other hand, maybe these condensed versions remove the not-so-nice stuff from it.

 

[Lillefix]

Do you mean do more than a handful of them typically read books themselves? Perhaps just one ...

And ironically, that one and another one in the same genre, are the ones I would have banned if I were forced to choose(ideally I wouldn't ban anything).

 

[sophie]

Based on the small subset of these that i have actually read (To Kill a Mockingbird, A Brave New World, Huck Finn), I have to say the people who are complaining are entirely missing the point of the stories.

I agree with this. African Americans might find To Kill a Mockingbird insulting to their race?!? Isn't the point of the book about challenging stereotypes and not judging people by the color of their skin?

I read to Kill a Mockingbird in 9th grade as required reading, watched the movie as well.

Now books with explicit sexual content I can understand. I remember people having to read The Kite Runner in 10th grade and being totally disturbed due to the rape scene, and that I can understand, but I don't agree with books being banned on moral/thematic reasons.

 

[Earthling]

Difference between banning and not teaching a book-not reading a book with deemed inappropriate content to younger children isn't the same as banning from a library. And last I heard biology textbooks weren't being banned en masse in the US (oh wait....)

 

[Gilder]

Well, about the Catcher in the Rye, is that, IIRC, the guy who killed John Lennon was obsessed with it.

For the most part, it's banned because of its vulgarity and some sex.

Although if I remember correctly, the only actual instance of the F-word is when Holden is trying to scrub it out so kids won't see it.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Catcher in the Rye should be banned because Holden Caulifield is one of the stupidest, most annoying protagonists in the history of crappy books.

 

[aronnax]

Catcher in the Rye should be banned because Holden Caulifield is one of the stupidest, most annoying protagonists in the history of crappy books.

Oh come on. The douchebag meter from that Twilight crabp is way worse!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I said "one of the most," it wasn't a superlative.

 

[choxorn]

What you think? Should books be banned, or subject to parental approval, or what? On the other hand, would you allow Playboy magazines in an elementary school?

My answers are as follows: I hate censorship, don't ban books, No, and Yes, for the "Articles".