If looks counted I'd be on the banned list........looks dont count Dio
Banned Book Week
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Where is “Where the Wild Things Are” banned and why?
I’d see IT being banned if it were published in the ‘50s
“A critique on how far people will choose to be ignorant in order to continue believing they are living the picturesque illusion of the suburban American Dream? What are you, a commie?”
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Well boys we did it, the first amendment is no more
The Stand was banned for:
Reason: "sexual language, casual sex, and violence"
I won't read a book unless it has those 3 things.
Reason: "sexual language, casual sex, and violence"
I won't read a book unless it has those 3 things.
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All free speech is equal but some free speech is more equal than others
I just posted a photo of some of the banned books. There are many more than the photo I posted.
I don’t see Sunny’s two books on the list either...which is a shocker......
Sunny’s Guide For Home Improvement - was banned in the lower 48 and Hawaii. Alaskans were allowed to purchase as many copies as they could get, but only to burn for heat.
Sunny’s 1000 and One Medicinal Uses For Stump Water - was banned everywhere by the Surgeon General and The CDC. Some copies do remain on the Black Market however for those interested in a little Halloween revenge.
Sunny’s Guide For Home Improvement - was banned in the lower 48 and Hawaii. Alaskans were allowed to purchase as many copies as they could get, but only to burn for heat.
Sunny’s 1000 and One Medicinal Uses For Stump Water - was banned everywhere by the Surgeon General and The CDC. Some copies do remain on the Black Market however for those interested in a little Halloween revenge.
I took an undergrad course called Banned Books and Dangerous Ideas.
It was pretty interesting. For example, The Tales of Peter Rabbit was banned because "it only depicted working class rabbits"
I did my paper for that class on A Clockwork Orange. That was an interesting case of banishment. The book was banned only after the movie came out. It was in publication for over 10 years with no issues. It pains my gulliver just thinking about that, oh my brothers!
It was pretty interesting. For example, The Tales of Peter Rabbit was banned because "it only depicted working class rabbits"
I did my paper for that class on A Clockwork Orange. That was an interesting case of banishment. The book was banned only after the movie came out. It was in publication for over 10 years with no issues. It pains my gulliver just thinking about that, oh my brothers!
I read an Archie comic in the mid-70's that was particularly disturbing. Even today I get uncomfortable just thinking about it.
I always find the reasons fascinating.I took an undergrad course called Banned Books and Dangerous Ideas.
It was pretty interesting. For example, The Tales of Peter Rabbit was banned because "it only depicted working class rabbits"
I did my paper for that class on A Clockwork Orange. That was an interesting case of banishment. The book was banned only after the movie came out. It was in publication for over 10 years with no issues. It pains my gulliver just thinking about that, oh my brothers!
Some of them, I find kinda dumb.
Oh for sure. That's why I was expecting a link to them. But we are just going by the picture you posted?
Of the ones in the picture, I have read 19 of them. I can't read the spine of the book between Our Bodies Ourselves and Native Son. What is that one?
Banning any type of art or speech, no matter how unappealing or distasteful one may find it, is dumb.
When I started reading Clockwork, I was pissed. I knew nothing about the book itself, but I had seen the movie which I thought was fascinating. But this made-up language for the first half of the book I took as a personal insult. I thought Burgess was f**king around with us. Putting down the reading public that we would just buy any crap. That authors could write anything and we would swallow it whole cloth and proclaim its brilliance.I took an undergrad course called Banned Books and Dangerous Ideas.
It was pretty interesting. For example, The Tales of Peter Rabbit was banned because "it only depicted working class rabbits"
I did my paper for that class on A Clockwork Orange. That was an interesting case of banishment. The book was banned only after the movie came out. It was in publication for over 10 years with no issues. It pains my gulliver just thinking about that, oh my brothers!
THEN I moved onto the second half of the book and realized how truly creative that first half was. That set up was important for the whole story.
But I wasn't on board from the get go. He had to win me over. And he did.
Thank you! I couldn't get it to zoom.
Okay, I've read 20 books shown on that picture.
That's an interesting reaction. I liked the invented language. It illustrates how a younger generation can have a language all it's own. If it were written today it would use a lot of emojis and webslang!
Did the version you read have the Nadsat glossary in the back and the missing chapter that was originally only in the European edition?
I don't think it had the glossary. Where was the missing chapter, beginning middle end? What did it talk about? I can answer that one better if the chapter sounds familiar or not.
No I think any banned book counts. I didn't have time this morning to make a proper link, so took the lazy way out.
I can't read all of the titles either......they're printed awfully close to the paper
ANd most people I talk to about the book also love the invented language. My knee-jerk reaction was negative. But, by the time I got to the end, I thought it was a great book.