Almost forgot ...

[ysengrin]

This is the American Library Association's Banned Books Week. Go read a banned or challenged book!

The top ten challenged or banned books from last year:

* Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, for sexual content, using offensive language, and being unsuited to age group.
* Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowlings, for its focus on wizardry and magic.
* "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, for using offensive language.
* "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy.
* "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers, for racism, sexual content, offensive language, drugs and violence.
* "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous, for drugs.
* "It's Perfectly Normal" by Robie Harris, for homosexuality, nudity, sexual content and sex education.
* "We All Fall Down" by Robert Cormier, for offensive language and sexual content.
* "King and King" by Linda de Haan, for homosexuality.
* "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson, for offensive language and occult/satanism.

Comments

[smappdooda.livejournal.com]

Read one? Hell I am writing one!!

[wipeout-ut.livejournal.com]

"Of Mice and Men" is a very good book...I read it at my local library when I was in grade school...
this country is starting to become just plain stupid.

[ysengrin.livejournal.com]

"Of Mice and Men" has made the list consistantly for many years. It's nothing new.

[meatpie.livejournal.com]

Faggots and niggers and satan, OH MY!!! ;)

I'm rather surprised that Huck Finn didn't make it on the list this year. I wonder if it's still even on any school reading lists...

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

That could make for a fun question at the forthcoming presidential non-debates: "What books have you read in the past year?"

Although I'm left wondering if the likely answers would only serve to encourage both candidates' supporters.

Another banned book

[shadowpaw.livejournal.com]

Also, don't forget "Blood and Chocolate". This wonderful werewolf love story featured some strong language, some "questionable" material (such as references to Celtic knots and the main character drawing a pentagram on the palm of a boy she liked), and scenes that were described in rather explicit detail. Just thought I'd pop in my $.02 :)