Comments on: Happy Banned Book Week!

By: Roxie

Roxie — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:49:30 +0000

Well, Harry Potter does prominently feature a homosexual….performing teh magickx.

I mean….what if you picked up a stick and accio actually worked?! WHAT THEN?!

By: Tamora Pierce

Tamora Pierce — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:01:09 +0000

Madonna’s “Sex” was lower than Harry Potter or The Giver?

People go more nutsy fagin over books for kids than books for grownups.

Mine’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which I re-read every couple of years or so. Don’t you just love people who want to deny that things were/are ever like this?

By: bastard.logic

bastard.logic — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:24:53 +0000

The Ten Most Challenged Books of 2007…

by Isabel
Happy Banned Books Week!
1) “And Tango Makes Three,” by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group
2) “The Chocolate War,” by Robert Cormier
Rea…

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:33:39 +0000

Really? Madonna’s “Sex” was lower than Harry Potter or The Giver? Well. I guess we see where someone’s priorities lie.

By: Angelia Sparrow

Angelia Sparrow — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:23:47 +0000

Chris, there are a lot of badly-socialized geniuses (like me) who thought that the society Huxley created was brilliant. The idea that Alphas need not be bothered about Deltas and Epsilons, let alone educated at the same rate, was very appealing. (we’re the same ones who love Dr. Horrible’s Singalong Blog)

I found The Giver interesting, but badly done. The world-building fell apart the minute one started poking at it.

By: earlgreyrooibos

earlgreyrooibos — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:45:22 +0000

I’ve read a lot of these, although I haven’t kept up with the banned YA list in a long time. But my mom is a librarian, very anti-banned books, so she made sure I was reading books off this list.

I think my favorited book on the more recent banned list is The Giver. It’s just an amazing story. But my all-time favorite book is also “banned,” although that happened in the 1880s – Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:50:20 +0000

This list makes me incredibly grateful to my school librarians and teachers – lots of the books on the ’100 most banned’ were on our book shelves. And other things like ‘Tipping the Velvet’ and ‘The Female Eunuch’.

But then our head teacher did let some-one skip a school event to go to London Gay Pride’.

By: Morganna

Morganna — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:16:18 +0000

I have to say I’m not suprised at what’s on this list-my high school library didn’t have The Diary of Anne Frank for fucks sake. Why? It was banned. Why? I have no idea.

By: evil fizz

evil fizz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:09:23 +0000

The most challenged book is about a…baby penguin? I know nothing about The Chocolate War, but I clearly will have to investigate.

Also, To Kill a Mockingbird is “worse” than the Anarchist’s Cookbook and Private Parts by Howard Stern? What on earth am I missing?

By: Lorelei

Lorelei — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:40:15 +0000

I’ve also been told that Lois Lowry’s The Giver (#23) “teaches” kids spoiler warning

that it’s a good thing to euthanize elderly people and defective newborns. Anybody who’s actually read the book knows that the bit where Jonas learns exactly what it means to be “released” or “sent Elsewhere” is one of the most harrowing scenes in the book.

that was the reason they banned The Giver at my catholic school (whose church was very heavily involved in the pro-life movement). we were in 7th grade, and the day it was banned, my best friend and i asked our parents to buy the book for us and we read it everyday in the class of the specific teacher who requested it be banned when we were done with our classwork. :D