Katie Couric's Notebook: 'Banned Books Week' (CBS News)
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I still haven`t been able to publish a book in my country, because they have remembered me prevously for trying to sell my stories to a local newspaper. They have rejected me each and every time, because my stories were `too tough to handle by audiences`. Yeah, right...
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The only people I can think of who would try and ban "To kill a mockingbird" would be white supremacists.
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Florida tried to ban 1984 because it was PRO communist!? Did whoever challeged it even read the book!!??
And the reason behind Black Beauty being banned is hilarious.
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who tried to ban of mice and men?...its amazing...i remember when i read it in school i had to pretend to think it was "gay" because of my friends but i loved it.
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She makes an excellent point.
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Because people think that it was unsuited for it's age group
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Oh. Well thanks. I guess I was too young when we read it. But anyway, why did that get it banned?
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Dude, Catcher in the Rye is a coming of age story. It symbolizes that as Holden tries to stay young at heart and not lose his innocence. He realizes that you have to grow up sometime. and as for how he wanted to be the Catcher, that symbolizes not letting kids grow up. "catching them" He realizes that you have to let everyone grow up and not make decisions for them.
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Very true, but Books are based on opinion (and a common one at that)
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lol, why? I wasn't paying much attention when we read that book in class, but I really don't remember anything except a guy with a weird hat being emo and buying a record for his sister or something. Nothing explicit, really.
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It amazes me no end how Christians who advocate banning fiction when it deals with certain subject matter, advocate their own children to read the bible which is rife with violence, female mutilation, gang rape, human and animal sacrifice, slavery, incest and genocide just to name a few.
In fact, one of the heroes of the bible David, acts like a peeping tom, lusts over another man's wife, has sex with her and kills her husband.
I guess there is a double standard for religious fiction.
alieninthecaribbean 3 years ago 11
banning books is on par with nazi supremacy. and guess what? PALIN TRIED TO BAN BOOKS. if you vote for mccain you're pretty much a nazi.
Mattyew 3 years ago 6