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7848. Magoseph - 10/5/2005 6:15:43 AM I only read the following:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The House of Spirits by Isabel AllendeS
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Native Son by Richard Wright
7849. Macnas - 10/5/2005 10:00:05 AM The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
So, spiritually I might be safe!
7850. jayackroyd - 10/5/2005 1:47:23 PM The one that surprises me is A Wrinkle in Time. The one that makes me sad is The Chocolate War. 7851. Macnas - 10/5/2005 2:20:09 PM Funny, I recall Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on school syllabus, as was Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies and most every damn thing Steinbeck wrote. 7852. jayackroyd - 10/5/2005 2:28:53 PM Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are targets because of literally minded people who don't understand the depiction of black characters in the novels, nor the presentation of racism as part of the wallpaper of the time.
Catcher in the Rye has sex in it. Lord of the Flies (like The Chocolate War) upsets people who believe that children should unquestioningly obey authority.
You gotta love librarians. They really believe in this free speech thing, and really believe in the broad dissemination of ideas. 7853. Macnas - 10/5/2005 2:52:03 PM Ah well, we should read whatever we fecking well like to, that's what I think. 7854. Macnas - 10/5/2005 2:55:11 PM Reading for Irish leaving certificate this year:
Shakespeare - Hamlet
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
J.M Synge - Playboy of the Western World
John McGahern - Amongst Women
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights 7855. Ms. No - 10/5/2005 5:23:33 PM I've read 30 of the ones on the list in full and about ten others in part.
What I can't understand is how the list is so small, I mean, if you're going to go out of your way to put something like the Sleeping Beauty Triology on it, then why not list every other erotic novel out there?
Or is it only the most popular and also banned novels or something? 7856. Ms. No - 10/5/2005 5:24:35 PM Mac,
Hmm...I've only missed one selection on that list --- McGahern's Amonst Women. 7857. jayackroyd - 10/5/2005 5:27:47 PM That's the top 100--the most frequently banned--of 7000 odd banned books. 7858. Ms. No - 10/5/2005 6:25:57 PM There are some totally bizarre choices on that list. Not that I don't find the idea of banning any books bizarre from the get-go, but How to Eat Fried Worms? Are they serious? 7859. thoughtful - 10/5/2005 7:14:28 PM I was watching an AEI thing late at night and there was a woman on talking about how no wonder children don't read any more. She was talking about how political correctness has taken all life out of books. She said it was not just the right or the left, but everyone who got a say in which books were used to teach children to read. The left wouldn't allow books where mommy was depicted as a homemaker...the right wouldn't allow books showing cows as their utters were too sexy...the nutritionists wouldn't allow books that talked about ice cream or pizza as it's not good food. The result is books that are so bland and so out of touch with real experience that no one want to read them.
So whether books get banned or not, the impact in educational circles is far more insidious. 7860. judithathome - 10/5/2005 7:17:44 PM Those insidious utters on cows are almost as risque as their udders! ;-) 7861. thoughtful - 10/5/2005 7:29:34 PM did I do that???? That's udderly ridiculous!
There's something about how homonyms are stored in the brain that makes us blind to them when typing. The other day I actually typed hour for our!
and it's only getting worse. 7862. judithathome - 10/5/2005 7:31:39 PM For me, too...I was just comforted that it happens to others...or should I say, udders? 7863. PelleNilsson - 10/5/2005 8:30:40 PM Are utters and udders really homonyms in standard American English? 7864. Ms. No - 10/5/2005 8:39:05 PM Yep. They shouldn't be, of course, but that's why were not British. 7865. jayackroyd - 10/5/2005 9:08:43 PM Those aren't homonyms for me. I definitely voice the d's in udder. "Mary" and "marry" but not "merry", are as are "cot" and "caught."
These books are those banned by political organizations from libraries, including school libraries. The textbooks thoughtful is referring to are hopeless in any case, but there is something appalling about not letting children who want to read The Chocolate War read it. 7866. arkymalarky - 10/6/2005 12:21:01 AM I'd only read thirteen, but I've taught several of them, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 7867. arkymalarky - 10/6/2005 12:22:06 AM I've also taught several that I'm surprised didn't make the list, considering what's on it. I didn't look at whether they distinguished between high school and elementary libraries.
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