Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy Okay, doesn't bannin' books suck? I saw somethin' on this at work last night, and when I saw the list of the 100 Most Challenged and Banned Books, I was flabbergasted at some of the list-makers. Some we've obviously heard about, but others just stunned me. Check it out, here they are alphabetically: ---------------------------------- A-B The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine The Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Always Running by Luis Rodriguez American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden The Arabian Nights Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher The Banditti of the Plains by A. S. Mercer Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause Blubber by Judy Blume The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter (BBC television version banned by the BBC) Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard C-D Call of the Wild by Jack London Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce Candide by Voltaire Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King The Case for India by Will Durant The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau The Color Purple by Alice Walker Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Crazy Lady by Jane Conly Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz Cujo by Stephen King Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck The Dead Zone by Stephen King The Decameron by Boccaccio Deenie by Judy Blume Did Six Million Really Die? by Ernst Z ndel Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene Dubliners by James Joyce E-G Earth's Children (series) by Jean M. Auel E for Ecstasy by Nicholas Saunders The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney Fade by Robert Cormier Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Family Limitation by Margaret Sanger Family Secrets by Norma Klein Fanny Hill by John Cleland Final Exit by Derek Humphry Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Forever by Judy Blume Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy The Giver by Lois Lowry Go Ask Alice by Anonymous The Goats by Brock Cole Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Guess What? by Mem Fox H-L Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Howl by Allen Ginsberg How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris Jack by A.M. Homes James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso Jenny lives with Eric and Martin by Susanne B sche Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan King Lear by William Shakespeare The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov Love by Toni Morrison Lord of the Flies by William Golding Lysistrata by Aristophanes M-R Macbeth by William Shakespeare Magnum Crimen by Viktor Novak The Making of a Godol by Nathan Kamenetsky Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrovi? Njegoš My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs Native Son by Richard Wright The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer Ordinary People by Judith Guest The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton The Pigman by Paul Zindel Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Private Parts by Howard Stern The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal The Qu'ran: The Early Revelations by Michael Anthony Sells The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Running Loose'' by Chris Crutcher S-Z The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz Sex by Madonna Sex Education by Jenny Davis Sexual Revolution in South Africa: The Pink Agenda: The Ruin of the Family by Christine McCafferty and Peter Hammond Silas Marner by George Eliot Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Spycatcher by Peter Wright The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green Teleny, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Ulysses by James Joyce Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford The Witches by Roald Dahl Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle ----------------------------------------- So, what "abhorred" works of literature have *you* been victimized by?
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy First of all, there is a really good episode of "The Facts of Life" from circa 1982 that deals with book banning, and it is really good (they covered a lot of controversial subjects...suicide, abortion, rape...some amazing stuff). Okay, now to some o' the books: <Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard> This is a delightful little children's book I loved as a kid (and still have)...only 36 pages long (several pages just pictures), and I can't believe this was chosen; apparently the fact that a minor character is an alligator who's a medium and conducts a seance with the other animal characters is "scandalous". <---rolls eyes I also don't know why: Bridge to Terebithia The Stupids Black Beauty (even though I've never read it) and the sounds-like-they'd-be-really-helpful-and-educational What's Happening To My Body? books are banned. The Where's Waldo? book in question is Where's Waldo: Book of Wonders (or somethin' like that), because apparently there is a "dirty picture"---a woman lying face-down at a beach with only bikini bottoms on (but the librarians in the segment I saw at work said they couldn't find the *beach* in the book, much less the "offensive woman"). Oh, and "A Light in the Attic" is chosen because "there is a drawing which could suggest to children that they can get out of drying dishes by breaking them on the kitchen floor". O M *G*. You'd think people would have better things to do than try to disallow writers' words to be read, especially when they go beyond extreme. *sigh*
Originally Posted By LVBelle I was surprised by how many of those books I read as a kid. And I think I turned out just fine!
Originally Posted By teddibubbles some of them I cant understand! Black Beauty by Anna Sewell ? Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ??? King Lear by William Shakespeare ??? The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare ??? Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe ??? ................................................. ok a few others I can see parts as to why. but still vary good if you can get past that part. color purple I Love that movie! but I did hate it the first time I saw it! but what is this a perfect world now? I have to admit I do hate to see scum anything outthat can lead people to sin. but I do feel that banning books is wrong! I dont belive I want anyone to tell me. I cant learn of any subject I find . I would rather I judge my own life than to have anyone tell me my rights!
Originally Posted By FaMulan Shakespeare is banned???!!! Hamlet, Kin Lear and "The Scottish Play" are classics of literature. So there's murder, mayhem and possible incest in them, but as tragedies, those responsible for unsavory acts are generally punished. Political Correctness is the bane of society.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip And it's not just the conservatives who do this. I'm quite certain that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain" were banned because of the way the books portray black people. There is censorship on both sides of the aisle.
Originally Posted By teddibubbles well I know that I own 3 of the banned books. and two of the banned book movies. king lear one gets to me! becuse that is the one story of his I can relate to ! I feel that it is a life leson. that people can pay mouth sevice any time.. yet in the end the truth will show. that heart respect is much more meaning full/ I am really freeked out about that one. my copy of Lambs Shakespeare and the story in it of king lear is my most faverit storys of my BIG book collection.. and all I can say is other than my bible they would fight a big fight to get my books from me! for respect of reading is a vary deep thing to me!
Originally Posted By FaMulan Harry Potter!!!!!??????? Ugh, those people don't understand that the underlying themes of the Harry Potter books are the fight of good vs evil and the trials and tribulations of growing up! The Wizarding World is the setting, sheesh. Merchant of Venice?! Well, it doesn't do much to enhance the image of Jews in Elizabethan times. But then Jews have been villified for centuries, but they don't let that prevent them from the peaceful conduct of their religion.
Originally Posted By FaMulan Twelfth Night??!! Why? I have read quite a few of the titles on that list. Makes me even more against Political Correctness and the closed-minded morons who want to turn us all into a bland society of gray people, reading gray things and having no passion or emotion in our lives.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam<< LOL! I have this book, and my kids and I read it regularly when they were little. Makes perfect sense that book banners would be against anything that encouraged learning to read, though.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan <--- walks off chuckling, wondering how "B is for bat" encourages evil, twisted thoughts in young minds.
Originally Posted By Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah >>The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier<< I can see why this one is banned.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Harry Potter!!!!!??????? Ugh, those people don't understand that the underlying themes of the Harry Potter books are the fight of good vs evil and the trials and tribulations of growing up! The Wizarding World is the setting, sheesh. >>> Ah, but that's just the problem. Jesus should be used to deal with such situations, not mysticism and witchcraft, don't you know? Some people can't seem to get beyond that it's a work of fiction, and is not intended to actually promote witchcraft in place of traditional religion.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 Okay here's one's I've read: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Call of the Wild by Jack London Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Hamlet by William Shakespeare The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Private Parts by Howard Stern A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Originally Posted By Chedstro Book banning hits home with me. I quit my last job as a bookseller because my (fundamentalist Christian) boss told me that I was not allowed to discuss "The DaVinci Code" with customers. She would not deal with it in the store (or any other Dan Brown books) and I was to act like I had never heard of it. I thought I would sound like a pretty stupid bookseller (this was not a Christian bookstore) so I quit. Cindy
