What are your thoughts on banned books?
The American Library Association (ALA) has tracked book challenges, which are attempts to remove or restrict materials, since 1990. Last year, the ALA recorded 323 reported book challenges in the United States, a 17% increase from the 275 reported challenges in 2015. In most years, about 10% of the reported challenges result in removal or ban from the school or library. However, in 2016, five of the top ten most challenged books were removed. The ALA estimates that only about 18% of challenges are reported to its Office for Intellectual Freedom, meaning that the actual number of attempts to ban books is likely much higher.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Ya know, I had an issue with this.... a friend of mine in the military asked me to get him copies of Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" for him. I found volumes 1-3 for hit pretty quickly.. I had heard of Clive Barker some, and a little bit about BoB series.
... I started reading one of the books.... I was absolutely horrifed- not in a good way- it was absolutely horror/torture/gore PORN. I was digusted.
My conclusion? Shake it off (which I knew wouldn't be immediate, but...), and stop reading it. The end.
One of my early issues realizing "the other side" didn't think the samy way I did. That horrified me more than the gore-smut I read.
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