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⌈ Secret Post #3538 ⌋

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Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

It is banned books week. What are some of your favorite regularly challenged books?

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/100-most-frequently-challenged-books-1990%E2%80%931999
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

Re: Banned Books Week!

[kaijinscendre]

All the books by Robert Cormier! I love him as an author. The ones of his that are most banned are 'The Chocolate War', 'We All Fall Down', and 'Fade'. I am surprised 'tenderness' is not on that list.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

From these lists, Slaughter-House Five is probably my favorite. And I know it's a terrible high school cliche, but I really loved Lord of the Flies (I thought it was ~super deep at the time, but it's also just really creepy and full of weird symbolism in a way that appeals to me).

What I can't figure out is why on earth was Julie of the Wolves banned?

Re: Banned Books Week!

[kaijinscendre]

Just googled it. Apparently the bans mostly stem from the scene where she gets sexually assaulted by her husband. I've not read the book since I was kid and have no memory of that scene.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh lord!!!! Me either; I had no idea that happened.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders, all the Judy Blume books

Always interesting to look at the reasons.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, there are actual children's books on these lists. Censorship-enthusiasts are utterly nuts.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[kamino_neko]

... Where's Waldo? Where's f'n Waldo? Gods below....

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

it got banned because there's apparently a topless female on one page in an early edition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_Wally%3F_(book)

Re: Banned Books Week!

[kamino_neko]

Mmm. Well, I suppose that makes a certain amount of sense...it's no longer the most ridiculous one on the list, then.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know whether to be smugly amused or extremely saddened by the fact that a fair number of these books (at least those published before 1995) were required reading for me in school.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

Why would that make you extremely sad?

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

because it means there are kids in schools somewhere who not only aren't being taught why these books are important to literature, history, culture, etc, but are being actively forbidden from learning that.

I mean yeah, that goes for banned books in general, I know, but I can't believe that I actually had teachers who knew how to address the issues in Huck Finn or teach the genuine lessons behind Brave New World yet there are schools where they'd rather ban the book than teach it.

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (understandable, but this is "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!11" levels of lame)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (ffs)
Harry Potter (only in 'Mmmurica)
James and the Giant Peach (why was this banned???)

Also I've never read it, but I'd love to get my hands on 'The Joy of Gay Sex' by Dr. Charles Silverstein lol

Re: Banned Books Week!

[(Anonymous)]

I love most of Judy Blume's books, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, The Giver, Daughters of Eve, and The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things. I'm kinda surprised to see Goosebumps and the Anastasia series on the list. I devoured those books like candy and can't remember anything objectionable about them.