100 Banned Books

[Icarus27k]

Every ten years, the American Library Association releases a list of 100 books/book series that are the most frequently challenged. That is, when someone tries to get a book taken out of a school or library.

The reasons are numerous. They can be everything from profanity and sexual content to being scary/morbid or promoting a religion/political view.

The ALA has just released the list for 2000-2009. I'm going to post the link, but before you click on it, what do you think is #1, the book of the last decade that most corrupted people's morals? Guess, and then behold...


ALA |

 

[Liberalman]

Did they ban the bible yet?

This book is full of sex and violence and they're always talking about a man's ass.

The Bible should be on top of the list of banned books in schools.

Our children are being corrupted by the Holy Bible.

 

[CDNBear]

Every ten years, the American Library Association releases a list of 100 books/book series that are the most frequently challenged. That is, when someone tries to get a book taken out of a school or library.

The reasons are numerous. They can be everything from profanity and sexual content to being scary/morbid or promoting a religion/political view.

The ALA has just released the list for 2000-2009. I'm going to post the link, but before you click on it, what do you think is #1, the book of the last decade that most corrupted people's morals? Guess, and then behold...


ALA |

Excellent post Icky...

I find it completely reprehensible to ban any form of literature. But to think that some people would want to ban some of the books on that list, just boggles the mind.

 

[Icarus27k]

I know the Bible and the Quran have been on the list before. Just not this time.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Same literary classics showing up, year after year. Same people who try to have these books banned probably have no qualms about their kids watching all sorts of gratuitous violence on TV.

5 Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
19 Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
21 To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
36 Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
49 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey

 

[DurkaDurka]

Here's a top 100 list of books challenged in Canada:

http://www.freedomtoread.ca/docs/challenged_books_and_magazines.pdf

Not quite as easy to read, but interesting none the less.

 

[DaSleeper]

A lot of those are banned simply for political correctness reasons:roll:

 

[DurkaDurka]

A lot of those are banned simply for political correctness reasons:roll:

Government knows best apparently 8O

 

[CDNBear]

 

[Icarus27k]

Something I like that is not on the ALA list anymore...

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It was banned from all kinds of schools after the 1999 Columbine High School shootings. But don't worry. I stealthily kept my copies.

 

[Avro]

Banning books?

Are you frickin kidding me?

I'd even let Ernst Zundel have a book in the Library.

 

[Tonington]

Nice thread Icarus. It boggles my mind that some books are still being targeted to be banned. To Kill a mockingbird? Catcher in the Rye? Huckleberry Fin?

These are classics. Oh the irony if 1984 was on the list.

 

[relic]

You mean the greatest,most wonderfull country in the whole wide world bans books !?

 

[EagleSmack]

You mean the greatest,most wonderfull country in the whole wide world bans books !?

No, not at all.

Thanks for playing.

 

[ironsides]

You mean the greatest,most wonderfull country in the whole wide world bans books !?

Nope

 

[AnnaG]

Every ten years, the American Library Association releases a list of 100 books/book series that are the most frequently challenged. That is, when someone tries to get a book taken out of a school or library.

The reasons are numerous. They can be everything from profanity and sexual content to being scary/morbid or promoting a religion/political view.

The ALA has just released the list for 2000-2009. I'm going to post the link, but before you click on it, what do you think is #1, the book of the last decade that most corrupted people's morals? Guess, and then behold...


ALA |

That's hilarious, Ic. Thanks.

Excellent post Icky...

I find it completely reprehensible to ban any form of literature. But to think that some people would want to ban some of the books on that list, just boggles the mind.

Egg Zachery!

 

[AnnaG]

Here's a top 100 list of books challenged in Canada:

http://www.freedomtoread.ca/docs/challenged_books_and_magazines.pdf

Not quite as easy to read, but interesting none the less.

Oh, I like that link. It includes the reasons the books were challenged. Some are really worth rolling eyes over. BTW, I liked The Handmaid's Tale, In The Heat Of The Night, among others.

 

[CDNBear]

Oh, I like that link. It includes the reasons the books were challenged. Some are really worth rolling eyes over.

Some? :lol:

 

[AnnaG]

Some? :lol:

Yeah some. Some are just plain comical.

 

[CDNBear]

Yeah some. Some are just plain comical.