Originally Posted By skinnerbox Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Sept 21-27, 2014 <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/">http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/</a> And in honor of Banned Books Week, here's a fun little quiz to see which banned book you're most likely to be: <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.playbuzz.com/columbusstatelibrary10/which-banned-book-are-you">http://www.playbuzz.com/columb...-are-you</a> I guess I shouldn't be surprised that I'm most like... The Hunger Games! YES! Very much looking forward to Mockingjay Part I in about nine weeks.
Originally Posted By ecdc It never ceases to amaze me which books people want banned. The Old Man and the Sea. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!? Also, when in history has anyone ever come off looking well for trying to ban books?
Originally Posted By teddibubbles Gone with the wind... luck for me i have the book and movie. as well as moby dick
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I have a funny story about the Grapes of Wrath, if there is such a thing.. In high school we had to read Grapes of Wrath and then of course get tested on it. In case someone doesn't know, one chapter is the story narrative, the next is exposition about the Dust Bowl, etc., then the story, then exposition. I skipped every other chapter, just reading the story part. I got a 96 out of 100 on the test. This class was taught by a teacher who at times was more impatient than her students for the day to end. Every once in a while she'd exclaim "C'mon clock!" exhorting it to move faster and get the day over with sooner.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 For you Californians who wonder why Bakersfield natives like Buck Owens sound like they're from Oklahoma... read the Grapes of Wrath.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf "I'm The Grapes of Wrath. Weirdly proud about that." I would be too, one of my favorite novels.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf I got "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller. I have never read it but now I want to
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I think these are all books that some group or other has TRIED to ban over the years. None of those named so far (with the partial exception of Tropic of Cancer) has actually been banned in the US, AFAIK.
Originally Posted By TheRedhead "I think these are all books that some group or other has TRIED to ban over the years." Yes. Really these are mostly all "challenged" books, and the American Library Association uses that term since it's actually very rare that a book gets all-out banned. People complain, but more often than not common sense prevails and the good guys win. I do a lesson with my students about challenged books when I teach Of Mice and Men, which is an off challenged book. Probably top ten of all time. It's my favorite book to teach though, and talking about what makes a book banned is a good way to address the very authentic language, the use of swearing and the n-word. In part of the lesson I pull out books that have been challenged and it's fun to see their reactions of bafflement. When I show the Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends" they go positively apoplectic.
