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⌈ Secret Post #2632 ⌋

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Patrick Stump / Fall Out Boy]

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[Men in Black, Agent Coulson]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Defenders of Berk/How To Train Your Dragon 2]

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[Lily Allen]

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[Attack on Titan]

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[The Brittas Empire]

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[Panic! at the Disco]

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[Frozen]

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Do you like first-person POV from an interesting character? To Kill a Mockingbird.

Do you like dystopic science fiction written 300 years before its time but still applicable today? 1984 (Wait, hold up a minute, why is 1984 banned now? I had to read that for school....)

Good old science fiction future that's really a dystopia but all the characters think they're in Utopia? Brave New World.

....I have absolutely no idea why Invisible Man was banned, it is excellent Victorian SF, written by the master of the genre of the day.

Wait, Call of the Wild was banned?? WHY? OK maybe PETA doesn't like it....Basically a first-person(canine?) POV of a working dog in the Yukon at the turn of the century. (Watching the movie instead of the book will NOT earn you a passing grade, the two are vastly different.)

....also no idea why LOTR was banned.

Do you like true crime police procedurals that get inside the heads of the villians? In Cold Blood. (I can also recommend the original movie with Keir Dullea. Yes, Dave from 2001. The remake from a few years ago was meh, and not nearly as close to the book as the original.)

Cat's Cradle is the greatest, funniest, most entertaining, most engaging book ever written in the history of the English language, OP. Just saying. (Why was it banned??)

1984 is mostly banned in communist and former communist countries like the USSR. Though it was apparently challenged in the US in the 50s for being pro-communist, because holy shit missing the point.

apparently challenged in the US in the 50s for being pro-communist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg

SA

Cat's Cradle is also the shortest book on the list. If that doesn't sell you on it, nothing will!

DA

To answer your questions about banning, this list isn't books that have been subject to some sort of wide-reaching ban. The list is the books on the "Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century" that have been subject to attempts to remove them from school courses or school libraries.

For specific books (from http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics/reasons, because now I'm curious):
1984: because Orwell's novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter."

Invisible Man: Two parents raised concerns about profanity and images of violence and sexuality in the book and requested that it be removed from the reading list.

Call of the Wild: •Banned in Italy (1929), Yugoslavia (1929), and burned in Nazi bonfires (1933). (no clue why, there.)

LOTR: •Burned in Alamagordo, NM (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic (which is all sorts of hilarious.)

Cat's Cradle: Only has challenges listed, no reasoning for them.

AYRT:

Re: LOTR as "Satanic" -- someone did tell these people Tolkien was one of theirs, did they not?

If not, I repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg

I was wondering if the LOTR thing was along those lines - like the crazy people who think Harry Potter is satanic because of (non-fictional) magic

On a side note: how on Earth is not giving a book to children classified as "banning" it? There's no way in Hell I'd give Invisible Man to anyone younger than 9th grade.

written 300 years before its time

What the fuck is that supposed to mean wrt 1984? Where are you getting this "300 years" figure? It was published in 1949, and was very applicable to the time it was written; that's exactly why it's set in the near future. I'll agree it's still applicable, but your sales pitch is nonsensical.

a stab at hyperbole? (not the same anon)

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