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- MrLunar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33James and the Giant Peach -- Oh so inappropriate.
My personal favourite...Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"Animals should not use human language." - Darkspyder86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank Four members of the Alabama State Textbook Committee (1983) called for the rejection of this book because it is a "real downer."
WTF - Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32The banned books are always the best ones.
- Taedirk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury. Ballentine. Ironically, students at the Venado Middle School in Irvine, Calif. received copies of the book with scores of words--mostly "hells" and "damns"--blacked out.
Y'see, it's funny because the book is about... - MoofTheStoof, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32Gharding:"So Christians fought to ban the Bible?"
The versions they didn't like, yeah. They also edited it heavily. - eavonius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Dianetics isn't on there?
- Tony_42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21The Lorax by Dr Seuss because it "criminalizes the foresting industry"?
- Opheicus, on 10/12/2007, -15/+35Bury me.
- ericab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Also known as "The List of Books Everyone Should Read"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20"Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman"
Wow, thats great.
I can't believe they banned books like uncle toms cabin because they had words such as "*****"
It is just a word, people! Who cares? Ironically, that book called for the end of slavery. - wheremyarm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki. Doubleday. Challenged at the Plymouth-Canton school system in Canton, Mich. (1987) because "this book details the teachings of the religion of Buddhism in such a way that the reader could very likely embrace its teachings and choose this as his religion." The last thing we need are a bunch of peaceful Buddhists running around. The horror.
That's gotta be my favorite explanation ever. - tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -11/+25The only people that fight to ban books are governments during wartime and Christians who think a book is going to chase every reader away from God.
- wpholmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Where's Waldo?
Challenged at the Public Libraries of Saginaw, Mich. (1989), Removed from the Springs Public School library in East Hampton, N.Y. (1993) because there is a tiny drawing of a woman lying on the beach wearing a bikini bottom but no top. Yes, but did they find Waldo?
How many more kids do you think looked for the naked woman after they found out about the reason for the book's banning? - LaughingMan11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"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... - Durinthal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki. Doubleday. Challenged at the Plymouth-Canton school system in Canton, Mich. (1987) because "this book details the teachings of the religion of Buddhism in such a way that the reader could very likely embrace its teachings and choose this as his religion." The last thing we need are a bunch of peaceful Buddhists running around. The horror.
Sounds like it's an effective book, then. - infiniti029, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15im thinkin the #1 book would be the BIble.
- jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -12/+24dugg, but please, please just use black text and white background!
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15On Christians "Let it go, and realize each group has a segment that takes things way too far."
Sadlt this group is very large, and has been taking things too far for way too many centuries. - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Exactly right on with 1984. Another prime example of this is banning Huck Finn because it promotes racism. Obviously anyone who actually ever READ Huck Finn could tell you it is one of the most ANTI-slavery books ever written, but because the word "*****" is in there, it is EVIL and should be BANNED.
Dumb assed censors. - Mr.Chainsaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10no alphabet of manliness? this website sits on a throne of lies!
- Burrito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Here's a more consise list from the American Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm - reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie is definitely the most controversial book of all time. I mean, people who translated that book were murdered.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9in 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. - killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10wtf Ulysses isn't there?? the book was banned by the US for like 10 years.. awesome book about the day in a life of an irishman.... lots of sex and violence
- quanta88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Ah, that's how I like my censorship! Inconsistent, fickle, and whimsical!
- Durinthal, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Personally, I prefer a dark background with light text.
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Why, O Lord of Logic, God of Sane Editing and Master of Community Driven News Sites, does a comment proclaiming 'Bury me' get 6 diggs?
**sigh** - dmurray14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7All Quiet on the Western Front?
- comrademikhail, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7kai05yang:
Uh, that'd be encyclopedia, not dictionary. Dictionaries are for the definitions of words, encyclopedias give history and such. - bonked, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12That's why you use a browser that lets you turn of visual style for the site - think Opera, think Firefox....
- Confusion42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Nor Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs or Mein Kampf by Hitler.
- dlbundo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13Some Christan's would like you to think that they are persecuted but that doesn't seem to be the case-
- tablatronix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"the Most Controversial Books Ever Written" is not the same as banned or challenged books.
- Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Nor Lolita
- kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6i found waldo, and if you want to see him again you have to send $5,000 cash to this address....
- ErnstHot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8per·se·cute (pûrs-kyt)
tr.v. per·se·cut·ed, per·se·cut·ing, per·se·cutes
1. To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs.
2. To annoy persistently; bother.
Yeah, this happens to and is being done by christians, muslims, pagans, atheists and every one else who hold an opinion on something people feel strongly about.
Turn the other cheek, because as Gandhi said; An eye for an eye makes the world go blind. - blobzorz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It was more influential as a movie.
- Mudcrutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5missing from the list -- "all along the western front"
an amzing WWI novel written by a German soldier. The book was banned & burned by the Nazis. - DaveyDeadite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Weird, I Don't See American Psycho On there.
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I would not say the content is the most controversial. But the ayatollahs that (still) want Rushdie dead amply illustrate there are religious people that are way more ***** up than the most Bible-thumping, swamp-dwelling, NASCAR-worshipping Southern Baptist.
- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i picked it up at barnes and noble about a year ago...very interesting but he is a bad writter. he has little structure and gets off topic very easily. The book is like a rant.
btw many people find it offensive if they see you reading it. I dont know why. They act as if you have a swastica tatued on your face - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5a clockwork orange wasnt banned? im surprised..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"I believe in freedom of speech and in some instances certain words can be used, but have some compassion towards other people, it can be a hurtful word if used the wrong way"
A word, phrase, image or whatever can only be offensive if one allows themself to be offended by it.
In other words, I could go up to a black person and call them a "*****" all day long, but if they don't care, the word has no power. By being offended and whining over a *word*, you give power to the scumbags that would use that word in a hurtful manner. Stop playing the victim and just let ***** go. - flyinbuddha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sex 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.
- candiru, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7no Harry Potter?
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@liquidrums
Pointing out that the Bible has been politicized, monopolized by the priesthood when it was only translated to Latin, and is quite uneven when it comes to sources that can properly be called inspired is not Christian-bashing.
The Koran makes rather high claims for itself, too.
Indeed, the more you know about the sources of holy books, the less inclined you are to believe in the divinity of prophets. - mice20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Harry Potter isn't ever "required" reading in any schools that I know of, granted the Bible and Satanic Verses aren't either but...as great as Harry Potter is you cant put it in the same category as 1984, or A Brave New World
- mice20, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3dlbundo, Im from Pakistan and I'm Christian, we are persecuted and killed for our beliefs, why dont you educate yourself before making accusations that Christians aren't persecuted
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Many 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.
- missflibbles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good luck with that, Mr. President.
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