Does anyone else also make a point of readign books which have been banned at one time?
From time to time when looking for new books to read I'll search out books which were at one time banned for one reason or another. That most books were banned because they affront religion is kind of motivating to make a poitn of reading them.
Feel free to mention any (banned) books you might recommend.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I have a minor in Library Science. When I was taking courses in collection development we had to study the banned book list. We were also trained on how to deal with a challenge to a book. It is amazing how many books are challenged in public and K-12 libraries each year. Usually it Xtian parents/groups that are the primary challengers.
Anything with magic or mysticism tend to get a challenge. The whole Harry Potter series really created an increase in challenges in the K-12 systems.
For some reason, Judy Blume books tend to get challenged frequently too.
Luckily, I have only worked in the higher education sector and there are rarely challenges to books on a college campus.
gitcheegummee
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May 28, 2019
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I couldn’t believe it when there was a call to ban HP. That series got so many non-readers actually reading!!! Crazy Christians
@Marcie1974 lol I banned it from my own list...just could not read it from a literary point of view...not my thing...lol...but yeah, it was banned for crazy reasons...
@thinktwice I forced myself to read the first 3 a few years ago but that was as much as I could take. And I have pretty low standards....I’m not saying I read the Twilight series....twice.....but.....
@Marcie1974 lol...I get it...uh, nobody better say anything bad about Twilight...them is fighting words...lol
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Coming from a monster enthusiast
Those ain’t vampires
@darthfaja oops...I didn't mean Twilight...I was thinking of the Hunger Games.....lol...I like dystopian novels
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@darthfaja Do you have a favorite monster book? I am making a summer reading list...so far, it is too full of non-fiction...I need to mix it up...
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IT...... so damn scary
But movies are really more my thing
Romero, Hammer
@darthfaja I could not sleep for a while without having the lights on...I really am afraid of clowns...I was scared by a clown when I was at a circus in Germany as a small child...I have to scroll by any clown pics on the internet...lol...
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@thinktwice I think the original Frankenstein was in interesting book. Th emovies pretty much made a mess of the story.
@thinktwice, @darthfaja I've never foiund Stephen king's books to be scary. The books of his I liked the most had no supernatural aspects at all. Still he wites in such a way that he is very aesy to read.
@snytiger6 I am always glad to read the book first...movies don't have enough time to go into character development or make their social agenda clear...they are meant more to entertain than to educate and inspire...Mary Shelley did it and much was lost in the movie...including the fact that she was a female writer in the time when women were not taken seriously...
@snytiger6 The scariest books to me are the ones dealing with real people who have committed crimes...Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, still haunts me...
@snytiger6 yes, love Steven King. I find his work more psychological than horror which is why the film adaptations never do him justice apart from Shawshank and Stand By Me. Interestingly, I read in a biography that he was pretty pissed off with Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ due to the casting of Jack Nicholson. He said that Nicholson seemed pretty manic from the outset which defeated the object of the book which was to show the gradual decline into insanity prompted by the house.
I read what I enjoy. I’ve never looked at a banned list before now. The link below I’ve read about 75% of the books listed, most of which were in high school.
These days my readings are strictly medical journals. The subsequent nature of my job.
The plot isn’t exciting and the endings are all the same.
darthfaja
Level 7
May 28, 2019
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I think some of it depends upon where you live as well. Not a ton gets banned in the rest of the country as I assume it does in the south.
I have a lanyard I got at a book fair that says I’m With the Banned. Meaning banned books. But it sounds like I’m with the band 
I thought that was super clever and bought it
Marcie1974
Level 8
May 28, 2019
5
awesome...it will help weed out the stupid for you in advance...great idea!
@thinktwice I also got one that says read but it’s like the AC/DC logo. RE⚡️AD
@Marcie1974 oh oh oh...I love AC/DC as well so that would be perfect! lol
@thinktwice I don’t actually care for the band but again...it was clever. And some people think reading is dorky 
It’s metal AF
oh thanks...a summer reading list of any I missed!
edited: read them all...ha ha ha...but I think I will read Updike again...I only got through the first Rabbit series...
I have read a lot of books that were controversial...but not sure any were actually banned...
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Scarlet Letter (required reading when I was in school and protested!)
1984
The Sun Also Rises
Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Flies
Chocolate War
etc.
Just because you read a book does not mean you ascribe to anything it says...it is just information for you to process on your own and to learn of other ideas and philosophies...
I read Mein Kampf, the Bible and the Quran just like any other literature...
thinktwice
Level 8
May 28, 2019
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I occasionally read religious texts, Bible, some buddhist writings, occasional hindu and moslem ... but never even seen a copy of mein kampf
@ShadowAmicus I read Carl Marx as well...and I have recordings of Hitler's speeches in German...he was a powerful speaker...I like reading about any topic except cooking...
@thinktwice ditto!
I was surprised to read that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" had been banned. First it was bannedf by racists, then later it was banned by peopel who said the book itself was racist.
An interesting story about "The Moon Is Down" by John Steinbeck. It was written as a propaganda book against Hitler during World War II. It was passed and distributed through the Alliance underground efforts. Although written rapidly and for propagand purposes, it is still pretty well done.
"The Scarlet Letter", was a really well todl story. It is aobut an adultress who has to wear a scarlet letter A as penance for havign committed adutlery. I found the endign to be most appropriate, but I don't want to give ti away.
snytiger6
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May 28, 2019
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