The Radio 3 Boards Forum from myforum365.com
11:35:52, 02-12-2008 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Whilst we happily welcome all genuine applications to our forum, there may be times when we need to suspend registration temporarily, for example when suffering attacks of spam.
 If you want to join us but find that the temporary suspension has been activated, please try again later.
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  

The Radio 3 Boards > General Chat > News And Current Affairs > Banned Books Week
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: Banned Books Week  (Read 122 times)
Turfan Fragment
*****
Posts: 1330


Formerly known as Chafing Dish
« on: 03:28:47, 29-09-2008 »
In honor of Banned Books Week, I offer this interesting page of the 100 most challenged novels in the United States. It is sobering.

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/reasonsbanned.cfm
Logged
Reiner Torheit
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 3391



WWW
« Reply #1 on: 05:35:37, 29-09-2008 »
Astounding Sad

One has to wonder what kind of knuckledragger could find "1984" to be a "Communist" publication?  Huh Huh
« Last Edit: 05:37:22, 29-09-2008 by Reiner Torheit » Logged
"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
-  Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
...trj...
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 518


Awanturnik


WWW
« Reply #2 on: 14:20:32, 29-09-2008 »
I wonder how many of these are on the list that Sarah Palin asked to be banned?
Logged
Propaganda
Morticia
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 5788
« Reply #3 on: 14:30:00, 29-09-2008 »
I see that, not content with banning books, someone saw fit to actually burn Lord of the Rings as recently as 2002! Unbelievable. And very scary.
Logged
perfect wagnerite
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1568
« Reply #4 on: 14:53:18, 29-09-2008 »
Quote from: ...trj... on 14:20:32, 29-09-2008
I wonder how many of these are on the list that Sarah Palin asked to be banned?

There was actually no list (although a bogus one has been doing the rounds for a while in the US - it includes a number of books published since the incident, including the Harry Potter books) - the truth is rather more sinister.

It appears that Palin asked the Wasilla Librarian whether she would be happy with censoring library books if asked to do so. When the librarian said she wasn't, she was fired.  She was then reinstated.  Palin's spin doctors described the event as part of a policy discussion with a department head "about understanding and following administration agendas." 

So no book list - just a nasty piece of bullying of a decent public servant.

Full story here:

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/palin-banned-books.htm
Logged
At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: