Diary of Anne Frank: BANNED, Lord of the Flies: BANNED... oh my God, every book ever: BANNED

I'm just aghast that there is such a proceedure in the states. I don't know that anyone would bother here.

so basically you can say anything here except for slagging off the secret service or the royal family :)

How is man ANYTHING more then animal? Because we wear pants we're not animals?

Yes, although when we take off our pants, we become animals again.

Heh...

Lyman
Jon's former roommate. Lyman left the strip in 1983 but occasionally returns for anniversaries and other events. Lyman is the original owner of Odie but left him in Jon's care when he moved out.

The entire basis for the song "The Bad Touch".

But this is more about people not taking responsibility for raising their own kids and expecting the schools to do the raising for them. And all with great constraint. ARRGGH!

11,000,000 dead vs. Vanilla Ice nekkid!

Maybe I just got really, really lucky?

My mother confiscated two books from me, in my childhood Firestarter (I was eight at the time - probably a bit too young to understand the story) and a Harlequin Romance titled Bitter Honey by Violet Windspears, I seem to recall. Oh, and she confiscated my Synchronicity II tape - I never have forgiven her for the latter.

I've never read Rushdie, but I've heard that once you peer
past the controversy he's not all that great of an author.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012804001.html

This is more a running story than a sudden new climate of fear, I think. Most of these books have faced similar reactions against them since their publication.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, May 15, 2003 3:32 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

still so depressing

One record dating to 1983 from an Alabama textbook committee said the book was "a real downer" and called for its rejection from schools.

Bama!

there should be a thing, when it turns out that a small town has banned a book from its library, allowing people outside of the area to contribute to a fund that would procure books for the availability of the town's citizens. so you'd donate $5 & then the people could go somewhere and pick up a free copy or could write off including their zipcode and get one in the mail.

Are you having trouble procuring something, schlump?

ha, no; there was an article about a young adult novel, and vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5, both being banned from a town's schools on account of the recommendation of some cranky old dumbass prof, who objected to their content, which just meant it had been swirling around my head for a day or two, maybe combined with the library discussion on the public space thread. i wasn't trying to solicit you all into charitably buying me books my library doesn't have (p fox's desperate characters, incidentally).

i do not think the prof succeeded in banning undesirable things from happening or existing, just people being able to read about some of them

Fly over the town in a plane, towing the book behind you, one sentence per day.

http://coba.missouristate.edu/assets/coba/ScrogginsWesley1308.jpg

have spent considerable time over the past couple of years reviewing various curricula across numerous grades in the school district. ... For example, my review of the eighth-grade sex education curriculum revealed that children at the middle school are being introduced to concepts such as homosexuality, oral sex, anal sex and specific instructions on how to use a condom and have sex.

http://coba.missouristate.edu/assets/coba/ScrogginsWesley1308.jpg

In English, children are also required to read a book called "Slaughterhouse Five." This is a book that contains so much profane language, it would make a sailor blush with shame. The "f word" is plastered on almost every other page. The content ranges from naked men and women in cages together so that others can watch them having sex to God telling people that they better not mess with his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ.

Lastly, there is a book in the library recommended for reading called "Twenty Boy Summer." This book glorifies drunken teen parties, where teen girls lose their clothes in games of strip beer pong. In this book, drunken teens also end up on the beach, where they use their condoms to have sex.

laid into Laurie Halse Anderson's acclaimed novel Speak, which he felt "should be classified as soft pornography". is very O_o

Extra rage-inducing detail: the whiny parent in question HOME-SCHOOLS his kids.

Can't click the link right now (I'm at work and it's blocked), but if this is the same news story I read yesterday there's an amazing quote where he denounces a scene where teenagers "use their condoms to have sex."

God telling people that they better not mess with his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ

jeez i thought this guy was a christian

Dammit I need to learn how to type faster on this thing :(

In this book, drunken teens also end up on the beach, where they use their condoms to have sex.

God forbid they should use it for anything else than making animal figures

"hey babe, water balloon fights are fun and all... but do you think we could use these condoms for something else?"

God telling people that they better not mess with his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ

Genius prose right there.

The comma placements are glorious.

i imagine that line being read by lenny bruce.

'why did we kill christ? it was because he wouldn't go to med school, the bum!'

Does all that stuff actually happen in S5? Man, I gotta read it. Cats Cradle was all whiny diplomacy and perving.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/08/kurt-vonnegut-banned-book-free <3