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this is the week the ALA promotes books that have been challenged and banned.

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here is a list of banned and challenged classics:
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/b ... /index.cfm

the classic i am reading for this week this year is one i picked up just yesterday, without even realizing today was the start of BBW or that the book had been banned: joseph conrad's "heart of darkness".

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wait, you're reading Heart of Darkness.
On purpose.
Voluntarily.
For fun?

Oh dear, you need to get out more.

And by the way, the jungle? It's dark. It's a dark jungle. With darkness. In the dark jungle.

And Kurtz? He might just not be well.

ack.

considering what i've been reading for one of my russian lit classes...

well, i'll let you all know later which is worse.

and yes, i do need to get out more.

Sht, I've been meaning to read that book for years, thanks fo the reminder.

I can't imagine why it's banned but the next one, n°22... maybe I should read that one too.

xtian wrote:I can't imagine why it's banned but the next one, n°22... maybe I should read that one too.

ah yes. the dystopian universe as explained by an anthropomorphized bear...

but really, these are all books that people have tried to ban over here. most of them unsuccessfully, however. although the harry potter books were successfully banned from the kid's school library where we used to live. where we live now? the high school ended all possible trouble by only having a tiny library full of reference books.

I recently heard someone talking about this book, and that it had been "Banned".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Black_Sambo

I've never read it.

Something tells me there are a lot more than 100 books that would be found on that list.

A better list would be books that have been banned, not just banned and/or challenged.

There are some really stupid people out there. Winnie the Pooh? Charlotte's Web? The Old Man and the Sea? That was just a short story.
Brave New World and 1894 were required reading when I was in school. So was Animal Farm, Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier (sp?), and a whole host of others that were on this list. Shit, I had to read all sorts of Steinbeck in 7th or 8th grade.

What do kids read nowadays, I wonder?

And SR, if you're into Conrad after that book (not his best), I'm a Conrad fiend. I can give you some good titles.

piccini9 wrote:I recently heard someone talking about this book, and that it had been "Banned".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Black_Sambo

I've never read it.

I own the Little Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo.

piccini9 wrote:I recently heard someone talking about this book, and that it had been "Banned".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Black_Sambo

I've never read it.

I own the Little Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo.

Hm,
I thought "Heart of Darkness" was a decent read.
Guess I'll have to go and read "American Psycho" again

Hey Paul! (axe to the face)

thack wrote:wait, you're reading Heart of Darkness.
On purpose.
Voluntarily.
For fun?

Oh dear, you need to get out more.

And by the way, the jungle? It's dark. It's a dark jungle. With darkness. In the dark jungle.

And Kurtz? He might just not be well.

ack.

+1

All I can hear in my head right now is my junior year high school English teacher asking us "what's the significance of the hippo meat?"

Sisyphus wrote: What do kids read nowadays, I wonder?

Generally, as little as possible. It detracts from PS3 and Xbox 360 time.

I find in incredible that Coppola could take a novel from the late 19th century and apply it to the Vietnam war; and not just the war in general but a very tiny part of the conflict that most people were unaware of at the time.
And succeed.

Korpen wrote:

thack wrote:wait, you're reading Heart of Darkness.
On purpose.
Voluntarily.
For fun?

Oh dear, you need to get out more.

And by the way, the jungle? It's dark. It's a dark jungle. With darkness. In the dark jungle.

And Kurtz? He might just not be well.

ack.

+1

All I can hear in my head right now is my junior year high school English teacher asking us "what's the significance of the hippo meat?"

You can throw me in that boat too. I loved reading that book in high school.

Winnie the Pooh? Seriously?? WTF?
I'm really suprised Johnny Got His Gun isn't on that list. I know it's been banned before. Happy to say, I've read many of those books. I think I'll adopt that list as my reading list for the next year...

piccini9 wrote:I recently heard someone talking about this book, and that it had been "Banned".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Black_Sambo

I've never read it.

I remember having the Little Black Sambo series on my Viewmaster discs when I was a kid...Wish I still had them.

I totally remember that too. I think my parents have all that stuff.