If You Read These Books You Will Go To Hell
I gotta tell ya - as God is my witness - I am becoming sore tired of petty people.
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INFOGRAPHIC: Top Ten Banned Or Challenged Books Of 2010To mark Banned Books Week (Sept 24-Oct 1), we've created an infographic to highlight the most banned or challenged books of last year. Click below to read more, and click here to read the President of the American Library Association on why censorship continues to threaten our freedom to read. We'll be posting more coverage of Banned Books Week events and commentary throughout the week.
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About Dale
I owe my life to Hitler, though I never met the man. My father was paid to stop Hitler, so there is no conflict of interest. I was given a thunk on the back o' the head by God when I was fifteen, and within a week began to write. I haven't stopped. My first...
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The Findings of My Research
Dale,
You'll be interested (I think) in the results of my "little" research project, based on your link to banned books . Apparently, one of main books banned in some Missouri library is Ockler's Twenty Boy Summer (ominous sounding, right?). Since I'm doing a study of current cultural trends in relationships between men and women these days (my blog "Where Have All The Young Men Gone?"), I checked out and read this book. It's one of these "teen" fiction books for girls and, of course, narrated by an adolescent girl. Going on and on about her anticipations of her next relationship after her childhood friend is killed in the first chapter, we finally get to only ONE love scene at the end and that is "mild" indeed compared to the standard fare on TV and in film these days. Moreover, the book has no "bad" language or violence either.
Getting to the point, how any town board could ban this book is UNBELEIVABLE! The "banners "must have just assumed the worst about the title without actually reading the book. The "twenty boys" reference comes up only as a passing remark by a couple girls as to what might happen but NEVER does happen on a planned beachfront vacation.
I thought you and other members reading this blog would be interested in this strange case of book banning.
Be well
Brenden
Thanks for your comments (and
Thanks for your comments (and your research) Brenden. I keep being affronted that anyone thinks they can choose what others read. Some material is indeed age-appropriate, but that age stops at anyone entering their teen years.