title.forbiddenlibrary.com — A must-have website for any student (especially in high school or college). This is a thought-provoking list of banned books, the places in which they were banned, and the reason for their banishment. Make sure to check it out...
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laughingman11Jul 9, 2006
"1984 . George Orwell. Harcourt. Challenged in the Jackson County, Fla. (1981) because the novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter." Big Brother doesn't want people reading such things"AMAZING. You'd think that the boobs on a Florida county school board would bother to READ the book before challenging it. Anyone who's ever read 1984 will know it's far from a recruitment pamphlet for Communism... As for explicit sexual matter, yeah, I suppose that's true...
borninda818Jul 9, 2006
in my opinion, you can't ban a 150 yr old book for racest slurs because they wern't considered bad back then. It's like banning a charles dickens book because he uses the word gay (happpy) a lot.btw, my 10th grade english teacher last year flipped out because i started reading Mein Kampf durring the free reading periods. However, i just arugued that the book was part of history and an interesting look into Hitlers mind. I think that book should have been on the list.
flyinbuddhaJul 9, 2006
Sex is good. Violence is bad. Its amazing to me how media content with even a bit of nudity will rocket to an "R" or adult rating, while the "Shock and Awe" is acceptable standard TV fare. Man we're twisted.
kd1sJul 9, 2006
Mein Flying Spaghetti Monster! As I was looking at the list I realized just how many of them were on my high school required reading lists. Yes, every year we'd read and discuss a book a month, and during the summer we were given a half dozen more books to read. And every title pops up on that list. BTW, I went to a Catholic high school, LaSalle Academy to be precise. And people wonder why I'm an atheist now.
missflibblesJul 9, 2006
Many people who would be offended by someone quietly reading Mein Kampf are stupid, plain and simple. People tend to decide whether you're a bad person based on what you know rather than what you do.
cameleopardJul 9, 2006
I realize that the site is aimed primarily at children's books, but the banning of books like Naked Lunch (with big trial!) and Ulysses are really compelling to me. What's even more interesting is the number of books that haven't ever been banned (or rarely so), but are much more "extreme" than a book like Catcher in the Rye. Can you imagine if people were more aware of books like Story of the Eye, all of Celine's writing or the corpus of the anarchic anti-tradition of German Expressionists, Dadaists, Surrealists, etcetera? Blago bung blago bung bosso fataka!
Closed AccountJul 9, 2006
The last two are the best
mbrindamJul 10, 2006
What? No DaVinci Code? That's gotta be the most controversial book of the decade!
sledgyJul 10, 2006
It's funny that I read many of those books for high school English. Plenty of good books there.
obkenobiJul 10, 2006
Please, Christians, seriously. If you're going to call yourself a Christian, at least know the origin and history of your religion.There is pre-Roman Christianity and there is post-Roman, politicized, nationalized Christianity.The two are very, very different. Christianity originally was an obscure religion practiced by pagan-like hippies. Did they have a leader named Jesus? Who knows? But you can't trust the Bible written by the Roman Empire, then edited countless times throughout the ages to suit whatever nation wanted to politicize Christianity for its own benefit.That is how all these sects came about. How can you have all these Christian sects, numerous versions of the Bible and know which is the one supposedly handed down by God?Do you disagree? Then tell me, which Christian sect follows the real, authentic, original version of Christianity?
naebooJul 11, 2006
tropic of cancer was banned in usa and uk for 30yrs since it's publication in 1934 in france.i loved that book. it gives u a different meaning on the word "****" hhaha
naebooJul 11, 2006
still one of the best books i read during childhood.i dont think i wld make fun of fat ppl any less if i hadnt read it. doesnt matter :P