Guest guest Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Frank, I am familiar with many of of these books. It seems these are the ones about lifestyles other than than the one they are tying to sell, social/political revolution or they expose the ideas of governmental conspiracy/control, even in a fiction format. For example: Catcher in the Rye, if you saw the movie conspiracy theory, is used by 'them'. I never understood the plot. Colour Purple (pride and knowledge of black heritage ) Sex by Madonna (free sex) Go Ask Alice by Anonymous(drugs) The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein (sex) Final Exit by Derek Humphry (suicide) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (political corruption and enslavement) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (government agenda) Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (faith/religion/hope) Lord of the Flies by William Golding (anarachy, government, taking control away from standard gov't) Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (one of my all-time favorites and the movie with a very young Mel Gibson, i'm not sure, but about experimental mind control giving one man more abilities and free thought until it wore off) Seems kind of obvious their agenda does not include books about personal pride or free thinking. Rachel Message: 25 Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:13:47 -0000 " califpacific " <califpacific Re: Fear And Censorship Could some one on this list please explain to me why anyone would want to ban some of these books? I am not familar with all of them on the list. Some are childrens books. I remember my youngest daughter being in love with the Judy Bloome books years ago. Can you imagine what kind of mind thinks that they know best and what is " appropriate " and yet that same mind wants to ban some of these. Do they think that " Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret " or " Where's Waldo? " is subversive? Some are classics. I do know that in the last 25 to 30 years I started to see the death of good literature in the USA. Little by little it became pap and one dimensional like a cheap movie. Nor do I see much intellectual thought and discussion in our society any more. It has all become circuses and pap. Now it looks like they are going after the well written books from the past. Someone, somewhere sure doesn't want people doing much thinking huh. I am not trying to be funny. I just can't see how many of these books could be on anybody's wish list of banned books. I am at a loss. Please explain this to me? With so many members someone should know something. Or all of you in the dark also?. Frank , Frank <califpacific> wrote: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently. htm >> >> The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-20001 (formally > > wriitten challenge to ban the book from the library) >> >> " t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the > > books that will never be >> written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear > > of censorship. >> As always, young readers will be the real losers. " -- Judy Blume >> >> >> Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz >> Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite >> I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou >> The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier >> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain >> Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck >> Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling >> Forever by Judy Blume >> Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson >> Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor >> Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman >> My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier > > >> he Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger >> The Giver by Lois Lowry >> It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris >> Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine >> A Day No Pigs Would Dieby Robert Newton Peck >> The Color Purple by Alice Walker >> Sex by Madonna >> Earth's Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel >> The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson >> A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle >> Sex by Madonna Go Ask Alice by Anonymous >> Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers >> In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak >> The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard >> The Witches by Roald Dahl >> >> Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry >> The Goats by Brock Cole >> Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane >> Blubber by Judy Blume >> Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan >> Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam >> We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier >> >> Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George >> The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison >> What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide > > for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras >> To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee >> Beloved by Toni Morrison >> The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton >> The Pigman by Paul Zindel >> Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard >> Deenie by Judy Blume >> Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes >> Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden >> The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar >> Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz >> A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein >> Brave New World by Aldous Huxley >> Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) >> Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole >> Cujo by Stephen King >> James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl >> The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell >> Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy >> Ordinary People by Judith Guest >> American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis >> What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide > > for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras >> >> Crazy Lady by Jane Conly >> Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher >> Fade by Robert Cormier >> Guess What? by Mem Fox >> The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende >> The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney >> >> Native Son by Richard Wright >> Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by > > Nancy Friday >> Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen >> Jack by A.M. Homes >> Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya >> Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle >> Carrie by Stephen King >> Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume >> On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer >> Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge >> Family Secrets by Norma Klein >> Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole >> The Dead Zone by Stephen King >> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain >> Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison >> Always Running by Luis Rodriguez >> Private Parts by Howard Stern >> Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford >> Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene >> Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman >> Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett >> Running Loose by Chris Crutcher >> Sex Education by Jenny Davis >> The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene >> Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy >> How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell >> View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts >> The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder >> The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney >> Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher > > Collier >> >> >> >> 1Out of 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for > > Intellectual Freedom, as compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association. (See Background Information: 1990-2000 under The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000.) The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported. >> >> >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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