Banned Book Week

[midcan5]

When I was young I would have liked a banned book list, something to read. Serious now I've read several of the non-fiction, literature, and drama banned books. Mom was always looking for my 'hidden' books. There may be valid reasons that young children shouldn't read many of the banned books. But many of the reasons hardly matter if they watch TV in America or go to the movies. Sex is always at the top of banned list but teenage boys knew that. Girls you'll have to speak for yourself. The hard question is how much does it matter? It may matter lots if it makes you think. Do books make bad people? I kinda doubt it, but it may depend on the person. Your thoughts.

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

https://qz.com/book-bans-are-spiking...arg-1849565948

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man 'that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense' has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading." H. L. Mencken

[LWW]

When I was young I would have liked a banned book list, something to read. Serious now I've read several of the non-fiction, literature, and drama banned books. Mom was always looking for my 'hidden' books. There may be valid reasons that young children shouldn't read many of the banned books. But many of the reasons hardly matter if they watch TV in America or go to the movies. Sex is always at the top of banned list but teenage boys knew that. Girls you'll have to speak for yourself. The hard question is how much does it matter? It may matter lots if it makes you think. Do books make bad people? I kinda doubt it, but it may depend on the person. Your thoughts.

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

https://qz.com/book-bans-are-spiking...arg-1849565948

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man 'that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense' has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading." H. L. Mencken

What are some of these ‘BANNED BOOKS’ you speak of?

[Cotton1]

When I was young I would have liked a banned book list, something to read. Serious now I've read several of the non-fiction, literature, and drama banned books. Mom was always looking for my 'hidden' books. There may be valid reasons that young children shouldn't read many of the banned books. But many of the reasons hardly matter if they watch TV in America or go to the movies. Sex is always at the top of banned list but teenage boys knew that. Girls you'll have to speak for yourself. The hard question is how much does it matter? It may matter lots if it makes you think. Do books make bad people? I kinda doubt it, but it may depend on the person. Your thoughts.

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

https://qz.com/book-bans-are-spiking...arg-1849565948

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man 'that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense' has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading." H. L. Mencken

Hey swinger. I found a book that may be of interest to you .
It's a quick read ...very quick it has very few pages, you see

"Midcan's Guide to "Knowledge and General Coherancy "

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[jigglepete]

What are some of these ‘BANNED BOOKS’ you speak of?

Top Banned & Challenged Books

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Some awesome reads among these...

[FindersKeepers]

When I was young I would have liked a banned book list, something to read. Serious now I've read several of the non-fiction, literature, and drama banned books. Mom was always looking for my 'hidden' books. There may be valid reasons that young children shouldn't read many of the banned books. But many of the reasons hardly matter if they watch TV in America or go to the movies. Sex is always at the top of banned list but teenage boys knew that. Girls you'll have to speak for yourself. The hard question is how much does it matter? It may matter lots if it makes you think. Do books make bad people? I kinda doubt it, but it may depend on the person. Your thoughts.

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

https://qz.com/book-bans-are-spiking...arg-1849565948

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man 'that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense' has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading." H. L. Mencken

I'm not a fan of banning books in public libraries, and I think it's counterproductive to ban them in public high schools, but I also think parents should have a collective say in the matter.

Ban a book and kids will get their hands on it. Count on it.

Will it change them? Probably not.
Will it introduce subjects the parents don't feel the kids are ready for? Probably.

But, kids know more than parents think they do. It's unlikely there's anything in the books that they haven't already giggled about with their friends.

[Standing Wolf]

When I was young I would have liked a banned book list, something to read. Serious now I've read several of the non-fiction, literature, and drama banned books. Mom was always looking for my 'hidden' books. There may be valid reasons that young children shouldn't read many of the banned books. But many of the reasons hardly matter if they watch TV in America or go to the movies. Sex is always at the top of banned list but teenage boys knew that. Girls you'll have to speak for yourself. The hard question is how much does it matter? It may matter lots if it makes you think. Do books make bad people? I kinda doubt it, but it may depend on the person. Your thoughts.

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

https://qz.com/book-bans-are-spiking...arg-1849565948

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/banned-books/_/N-rtm

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading." David Bailey

"The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man 'that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense' has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading." H. L. Mencken

Love the Mencken quote.

Top Banned & Challenged Books

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Some awesome reads among these...

Awesome and important. Perhaps the greatest irony in any of those books being banned or challenged is the case of 'Fahrenheit 451' - a book about book-burning. So many of the others are opposed by some for "bad language" or for content that depicts or describes "inappropriate" behaviors. I remember reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird', 'Lord of the Flies' and 'Of Mice and Men' either in 8th or 9th grade, and '1984' somewhat later; all present very important ideas in a dramatic and memorable way, and of course all are classics for that reason. All four titles, in fact, are referenced in discussions and writing to the point where having read them is almost a prerequisite for being properly educated. Yet bigots and pearl-clutchers continue to oppose them for silly and unworthy reasons.

I came across a quote from Mark Twain the other day that I'd never seen, or didn't recall seeing. As he usually did, Twain put it as well as it can be put.

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.'

[RMNIXON]

While this is an important issue, and I glad that libraries and school give if notice, the banned issue has taken on new meaning of late.


To begin with libraries and schools choose what they purchase and that has been the case throughout history. Labeling something as inappropriate or simply of no literary value is not Banning. Real banning would be like hounding a publisher to stop printing certain books by Dr. Seuss for example. The purpose is that you can no longer obtain them anywhere other than used books that will eventually disappear altogether.

That and a Nation State Banning Books by law of course.

[LWW]

Top Banned & Challenged Books

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Some awesome reads among these...

How did you read them?

[LWW]

While this is an important issue, and I glad that libraries and school give if notice, the banned issue has taken on new meaning of late.


To begin with libraries and schools choose what they purchase and that has been the case throughout history. Labeling something as inappropriate or simply of no literary value is not Banning. Real banning would be like hounding a publisher to stop printing certain books by Dr. Seuss for example. The purpose is that you can no longer obtain them anywhere other than used books that will eventually disappear altogether.

That and a Nation State Banning Books by law of course.

Will you please cease and desist from using truth and fact against arguments based on emotion yet bereft of facts.

It riles the gizzards of the NEWSPEAK crowd .

[RMNIXON]

Will you please cease and desist from using truth and fact against arguments based on emotion yet bereft of facts.

It riles the gizzards of the NEWSPEAK crowd .

Lets just say that the idea that Democrats and the modern PC/WOKE left are the Free Speech advocates these days is some kind of Bad Joke!