Great Banned Books ( AKA WTF who would ban this)

[I am me and you are?]

Ok i'm just rambbling along on the internet and decide to see the list of banned books and see what i've read cause i'm weird like that and i discover really great books & authors are on the banned so i'm going to give you the page and just put down the one's you read

http://www.ila.org/pdf/2008banned.pdf
http://www.marshall.edu/LIBRARY/bannedbooks/index/titleindex2008.asp
http://www.banned-books.com/bbauth.html
http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/05/20/50-banned-books-that-ever...

Lowry, Lois. The Giver (REQUIRED READING)
Green, John. Looking for Alaska.
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.

Blume, Judy
Carrol, Lewis
Franklin, Benjamin
Hemingway, Ernest (REQUIRED READING)
King, Stephen
L'Engle, Madaleine
Shakespeare, William

[Emma Nordmeyer]

I've read: The Giver (LOVED it. I liked it so much it only took me 2 or 3 days to finish it. I read it whenever I got the chance)
James and the Giant Peach (How could that be banned? It's a fun little children's book.)
A Wrinkle in Time. (I can't rember much about that.)

[Jim MacDougal]

I can guess about James and the Giant Peach. It has talking animals in it. To some hard line Fundamentalists talking animals always means witchcraft. Also, the characters are too self reliant. A good person should not just depend on their own wits, they should turn to prayer during a crisis. I'm not kidding. Sadly.

[Conz]

So does Animal Farm, and who the hell hasn't read that?

Granted it does also teach us that Communism is bad, so thats prolly why it isn't banned as well.

[Jim MacDougal]

Animal Farm has been challenged several times.

[Kori]

book banners are on something.

[Spazophie]

I had a friend who wouldn't read harry potter because she believed JKR was trying to turn kids away from christianity (because thats what her church said.) I think that because the book had such a huge following, there's always somebody who needs to find some reason to bring it down a notch, you know? Maybe they believe people will switch their faith from christianity to harry potter?

[Emma Nordmeyer]

My friend said her church preached out against Harry Potter. Then again, her church goes by the "old rules" of the Catholic Church. The only books my church said something about are the Golden Compass books.

[Cathal (billythehick)]

Ulysses.

sure it's got a scene where the main character goes to a brothel and fantasises about being a female rape victim, but still... it's Ulysses!

[Jade]

Well banning books makes total sense.
We don't want kids to know that bad stuff happens or *gasp* think for themselves.

(That was sarcasm incase it wasn't clear)

But really, this is so stupid. It makes me so angry that more and more excuses are being thought of to ban good books. And I've read all the ones you listed, by the way.

[Anne Brunner]

J.K. Rowling, Toni Morrison (required), Mark Twain (required), Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury (required, although I do like a lot of his stories), Judy Blume, Anne Frank (really, world? WTF?), Lewis Carroll, D.H. Lawrence, Stephen King, Aldous Huxley, Daniel Keyes, Ernest Hemingway (required), Nathaniel Hawthorne (required), George Orwell, Sylvia Plath (required), William Shakespeare (obviously it was required, but I did read some of his stuff for my own enjoyment), George Bernard Shaw, and John Steinbeck (definitely required. The Pearl nearly killed me with boredom), Dr. Suess (*snigger* Heh, The Lorax seems pretty chill when you look back at some of the political cartoons), and Ken Kesey.

... I'm going to Hell, aren't I? :P

[Katie]

No lie, I read somewhere once that Anne Frank was banned for "promoting Judaism."

[Anne Brunner]

... And we have an entire bookshelf at our public school containing nothing but copies of the Holy Bible.

Yeaaaaaah. Do you have any idea where? I'd like to read more about it.