Best banned book (top 20) 1990-1999

america is weird.

atheists!

One of my favorite things in any sitcom was in "Working" when his boss explained his mom burned his copy of Catcher in the Rye – by burning down their entire house.

No Anarchist Cookbook? I guess that one is just implied.

My Brother Sam is Dead sounds like a riot.

My Brother Sam is Dead is a classic "YA" book set in the Revolutionary War.

books you liked as a preteen

Sex because Madonna is naked in it.

Like a bunch.

and vanilla ice is in it.

like a bunch?

I just bought the first Scary Stories for my girlfriend's kid. He loves it. Sometimes he gets really scared! It's a hoot.

PRETTY sure the Scary Stories series is bcz of the illustrations, which gave me nightmares.

Like "MOM DAD I CAN'T GET TO SLEEP BCZ OF THIS PICTURE OF A WOMAN TURNING INTO A HORSE."

goosebumps because huh?

Vanilla Ice Big meets Daddy Kane inna DP Madonna Sex Book.
...but my answer is Chocolate War

Goosebumps bcz it was offensive that Stine cranked out a book every month & was a hack? Or bcz Wheel of Fortune was mad at his name basically copping the R L S T N E thing?

I think it is bcz of "Scary stuff!" "My kid got scared and I want some fucking sleep so get rid of these books."

Which school dared ban Madonna's book?

iirc goosebumps was thought to promote occultism and other unchristian ideas?

because it's kinda ridiculous to ban those. i mean, i got nightmares as a kid from those too but come on xxp

The one that scared me the most WAS one about possession. BUT how would one justify the banning of the absolutely silly book about a boy turning INTO A BEE?

I'd like a picture book of Madonna and Vanilla Ice enacting Of Mice and Men.

anything by Cormier

Ha there is a Goosebumps book called A Shocker on Shock Street!

Oh man Goosebumps lead to dozens of gems in the title department:

Let's Get Invisible!
Say Cheese and Die!
Piano Lessons Can Be Murder
Monster Blood II
Go Eat Worms!
My Hairiest Adventure
The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom
Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
A Shocker on Shock Street
Egg Monsters from Mars
The Beast from the East
Say Cheese and Die - Again!
Legend of the Lost Legend
Calling All Creeps!
Beware, the Snowman
The Blob That Ate Everyone
I Live in Your Basement!
Monster Blood IV
Revenge R Us
Are You Terrified Yet?
Jekyll And Heidi
Be Afraid — Be Very Afraid!
Slappy's Nightmare
Earth Geeks Must Go!
The Haunted Mask Lives!
Tick Tock, You're Dead!
The Curse of the Creeping Coffin
Welcome to the Wicked Wax Museum
The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock
Please Don't Feed The Vampire!
Toy Terror: Batteries Included
Shop 'Til You Drop...Dead!
You're Plant Food!
It Came From the Internet
Scary Birthday to You
Trick or .... Trapped!
How I Won My Bat
You Got to Believe Me!
Suckers!
I'm Telling!
The Perfect School
Attack Of The Tattoo
Awesome Ants
An Old Story
Matt's Lunch Box
Stuck in 1957
Help! We Have Strange Powers!

I think part of the length of this list is I am impressed by book titles with ¡exclamation points!

scary stories illustrator is an old family friend. also secret fantastic guitarist.

i'm always somewhat bemused by these lists of banned books -- not only because they always include seminal works of american lit. which shouldn't really be controversial imo, but also because they have the effect putting Steinbeck and R.L. Stine into one category

besides being close in the alphabet

why hello there

high fives

XD

SMASH THE PMRC

A friend and I got in trouble once for reading "Scary Stories" in a dark closet. Her mom claimed that Jesus would not approve. I think we were 8 or 9.

When I was reading The SHining at age 17, my mom accused me of trying to channel satan.

You were actually trying to channel a magical negro, weren't you?

Moms should be pumped their kids are reading anything

Oh man Goosebumps lead to dozens of gems in the title department:

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who banned these books from where?

No need for poll. My Hairiest Adventure in a walk.

the chocolate war is really good.

scary stories illustrator is an old family friend. also secret fantastic guitarist.

sweet. those illustrations are awesome (and scary).

Even his cuets color storybook for kids was inadvertently creepy looking.

man i read part of huck finn on the train the other day, that book is really just the raddest book ever, too bad it has such a retarded shitty ending

as i recall the retarded shitty ending is kind of necessary for showing how much huck has grown up, whereas tom is still a play-acting kid and a douche to boot.

^^^ otm

huh i have never even heard of scary stories, weird

why was bridge to terabithia banned, just because the girl dies?

I read the chocolate war back in middle school and really disliked it, but maybe i'd dig the grim and sick aspects of it more now.

I would expect The Pigman to be on this list.

i did 60 seconds of research and found some not very convincing reasons

My mother, who is a librarian, would often bring a bunch of the older books on this list home and make me read them, lol.

the giver = My First Ambiguous Ending

oh man, you missed out n/a

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v706/Golding/Stephen%20Gammell/8bad1ecf.gif

i dont need the ending to show me that huck grew up!!! also get out of here tom sawyer!!!!!

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1629/sc27zy8.jpg

FLASHBACKS

Just don't post the one of the woman turning into a horse.

In 8th grade, my English teacher had each of us bring a book to class to read (easy job, having us read at our desks the whole period). My book was The Hotel New Hampshire, and she did not approve.

I'd like a picture book of Madonna and Vanilla Ice enacting Of Mice and Men.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:08 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"Tell me about the Rabbits, Matthew!"

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"Print the pictures youth of any age can see at the Lewiston Public Library without warnings and the Chief of Police refuses to acknowledge they are obscene for the age group targeted," Karkos wrote in the e-mail.

I did the image wrong. Oh well, it was a cartoon of a kid masturbating. From It's Perfectly Normal.

I always paused to admire the art on these. But I never read one.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v706/Golding/Stephen%20Gammell/571338c0.jpg

When I got home from work last night, we read "Kickle Snifters and Other Fearsome Critters", also by Alvin Schwartz (different illustrator though).

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b9/33/0b6c820dd7a096008a56d010._AA240_.L.jpg

It had an entry on Squonks!

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that illustration of the rotting woman's face used to terrify me as a kid. i would go back to it over and over again, but i couldn't look at it for more than a split second at a time, i was like really really frightened by it.

i read all these as a kid except sex by madonna which i downloaded on limewire when i was 16

voted The Giver

sex by madonna which i downloaded on limewire when i was 16

i found it very boring and weird btw

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When I got home from work last night, we read "Kickle Snifters and Other Fearsome Critters", also by Alvin Schwartz (different illustrator though).

It had an entry on Squonks!

― she is living in an auto tune (kingkongvsgodzilla), Wednesday, January 7, 2009 6:39 AM (1 year ago)

This book made me afraid of wendigos, gotta give props.

I haven't read a lot of these. Why was The Chocolate War banned?! Is there sexy stuff in it?

lol I just read the wikipedia. It makes it seem like thinking about sex is normal for highschoolers, they do a lot of mean stuff sometimes and also that sometimes cheating and lying about stuff works. Oh the horror (of the real world being presented in book form!)

Bridge to Terabithia...I still remember it as though I read it yesterday. We had to read it in class for Yr 7 English. When we started it, we all hated it unanimously... it just seemed so dumb and dated and we were all pretending like we were too cool for make believe. And then...wow. She died? Shit. we couldn't put it down after that, and it was like this weird undercurrent of our whole class going through something really emotional together.

Pisses me off no end that they would ban this book, and keep trying to ban it. And WTF at banning Chocolate War. I mean, come ON.