Banned book week

[swiftdog2.0]

I've been looking at that list since like 1999
I am serious about fighting censorship even in
Children libr. It's a serious thing. Even if an author bans
His OWN damb book

Rage is not banned. It was allowed to go out of print. Big difference.

Whomever owns the intellectual property (music, book, film, etc.) can do whatever they wish with it. We don't have to like it. We don't own it and can't force the owner to put it back into print.

 

[Tiny]

People keep saying that King or any one else has the right
To pull their own book out of print...

And I keep saying ...of course

We just don't like it, bad president. Bad logic.

 

[skimom2]

Found a first edition A Clockwork Orange today, and since I haven't read it in a very long time, this will be my banned book for the week.

 

[muskrat]

Got a buncha banned books on the shelf. Formally banned, that is. I had no trouble at all in obtaining them. Lawrence, Miller, Burroughs, De Sade, crap like that. Funny how tame most of it is, cept for De Sade. Ech. That guy should STILL be banned.

Clockwork Orange was banned? Didn't know. Great one, Mamadroog.

Figure I'll re-read E.C.'s PANIC #1. It was banned in Boston, after all.

 

[BeverleyMarsh]

Flaubert's Madame Bovary was initially banned on grounds of overt sexuality.

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Found a first edition A Clockwork Orange today, and since I haven't read it in a very long time, this will be my banned book for the week.

Real horror-show! Viddy well!

 

[Tiny]

If you look at my list it will google your mind.
Most of the titles...I cant imagine what the he'll
These odd people were thinking about.
At one point James and the Giant Peach was banned.

Who ever these people are ...I don't want them in charge of a
Port-a-potty... let a lone a childrens library

 

[skimom2]

Got a buncha banned books on the shelf. Formally banned, that is. I had no trouble at all in obtaining them. Lawrence, Miller, Burroughs, De Sade, crap like that. Funny how tame most of it is, cept for De Sade. Ech. That guy should STILL be banned.

Clockwork Orange was banned? Didn't know. Great one, Mamadroog.

Figure I'll re-read E.C.'s PANIC #1. It was banned in Boston, after all.

Banned books abound in my house--lol. Just about everything with a grain of painful truth has been challenged somewhere at some time. De Sade is boring as hell most of the time, IMHO. That DOES make the icky scenes stand out more, though I was going to choose Lolita again, but then found one I didn't have (I lost my PB copy of Clockwork Orange somewhere along the years).

 

[Kurben]

Was Henry Miller or Anais Nin banned?

 

[Dana Jean]

Was Henry Miller or Anais Nin banned?

Probably both.

 

[Pucker]

...the idea of banning anything just makes those of us with any intelligence that much more curious what the hullabaloo is all about...stupidest concept ever....

This is the answer right here^.

I don't know that I would use the word intelligence as the catch-all here, but a sizable portion of the people I've met do seem to gravitate to things they are told they should not do for no better reason than because somebody told them that.

There's an old Psych 101 story about an experiment where people are sent into a room (alone) where there is a table full of snacks. It could be any kind of snacks -- whatever you like -- but a wide variety and plenty of everything.

The subject is given only one directive: He or she may eat whatever she wants to their hearts content, except the red velvet cupcakes. Those are for somebody else.

You can probably guess what happens.

 

[GNTLGNT]

This is the answer right here^.

I don't know that I would use the word intelligence as the catch-all here, but a sizable portion of the people I've met do seem to gravitate to things they are told they should not do for no better reason than because somebody told them that.

There's an old Psych 101 story about an experiment where people are sent into a room (alone) where there is a table full of snacks. It could be any kind of snacks -- whatever you like -- but a wide variety and plenty of everything.

The subject is given only one directive: He or she may eat whatever she wants to their hearts content, except the red velvet cupcakes. Those are for somebody else.

You can probably guess what happens.

...I was in a generous mood that day....

 

[do1you9love?]

I started Beloved which I have never read before. It's also my first Toni Morrisette novel. Not quite sure how I feel about it yet. Will report back upon completion.

 

[Tiny]

I would not eat the red velvet cupcakes. Not until
I was done with everything else, Maybe not even then.

INFP

 

[skimom2]

I started Beloved which I have never read before. It's also my first Toni Morrisette novel. Not quite sure how I feel about it yet. Will report back upon completion.

I liked that one all right, but enjoyed The Bluest Eye more That one is regularly banned, too.

 

[doowopgirl]

...the idea of banning anything just makes those of us with any intelligence that much more curious what the hullabaloo is all about...stupidest concept ever....

I've often wondered if that was part of a marketing plan to nake people want to read something.

 

[Pucker]

I've often wondered if that was part of a marketing plan to nake people want to read something.

I made this observation way back in the old dawn -- as Kid Charlemagne -- about Rage and most people around here did not seem to think it was valid.

Go figure.

 

[Pucker]

Found a first edition A Clockwork Orange today, and since I haven't read it in a very long time, this will be my banned book for the week.

I remember reading this as one of my elective book reports in Freshman English. That was in 1976. Was my English teacher a subversive, or was it banned later?

 

[skimom2]

From the ALA website:
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
In 1973 a book seller in Orem, Utah, was arrested to selling the novel. Charges were later dropped, but the book seller as forced to close the store and relocate to another city. Removed from Aurora, Colo. high school (1976) due to "objectionable" language and from high school classrooms in Westport, Mass. (1977) because of "objectionable" language. Removed from two Anniston, Ala. High school libraries (1982), but later reinstated on a restricted basis. Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide, ed. Robert P. Doyle.

Like most banned books, it's not a general ban nation wide; challenges are generally local.

 

[Pucker]

Interesting aside about that story:

It was recommended to me by this teacher (who became something of an early hero of mine) who cautioned me that the language would be difficult, and I did spend a lot of time turning to the glossary in the back to decipher some of the dialect that I couldn't glean from context. This, in turn, taught me to always keep a dictionary -- or at the very least, a thesaurus -- somewhere nearby and to immediately look up new and unfamiliar words.

Pretty good English teach, Mr. McNiff.