Banned Books Week

[filkertom]

Support freedom here.

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[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

That includes ALL books, you know. Even ones we may not like, such as "Mein Kampf" or "The Turner Diaries".

[braider.livejournal.com]

*blink* You have to pay to see the list?

[braider.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. Is it not better to understand that evil people see themselves as doing good, and that there are always some groups that agree with them? Likewise very good people have accomplished very evil things by doing what they though best for the people around them. It's one of the more frightening lessons of humanity.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Ummm... no. What link did you follow?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Indeed. It goes back to the idea of not liking what someone says, but defending their right to say it.

[braider.livejournal.com]

I followed the link to the main page and couldn't actually find the list itself, just pages where they mention having the packets for sale. I may just be tired and missing the obvious.

[ludzu-alus.livejournal.com]

Even places like where I work (Barnes&Noble) try to bring Banned Book Week to the public's attention by having displays of banned books this week or two (my store will, at least!). Of course, there are still those that don't get it: "OMG!! The Gay and Lesbian books are too close to the Children's department; you must move them far away!! Why would you even want to carry things like that? And that Satanist section next to the Christian section...I'm never shopping here again!" Yeah - please go, really. They just don't get that we don't discriminate or try to decide what people should read. That's why we still carry the Anarchist Cookbook and the Cannabible. Sorry for the mini-rant!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

No problemo. I actually helped ban a book myself once. In my callow youth I worked at Ulrich's Books here in Ann Arbor, and we got in, and sent right back, the extraoridinarily unfunny "humor" book 101 Uses For A Dead Cat by Simon Bond. Wasn't a matter of the book being offensive or disgusting, and even then I was a huge fan of Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson; the darn book just wasn't funny, and my manager and I just looked at it, looked at each other, and sent it back.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

If you haven't found it yet, it's down page, in the Frequently Visited Pages. Here's a direct link (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.htm#mfcb). There's also a bunch of links in the press kit (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/challengesinitiator.htm).

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Maurice Sendak.

MAURICE SENDAK is on the list.

All I can think of right now is the Mahatma Gandhi's reply to the question, "What do you think of Western civilization?": "I think it would be a good idea."

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Nice to know Huck Finns OK this year.....

[beige-alert.livejournal.com]

The old joke:

"Read a banned book today!"

"Geez, I hope it doesn't become...compulsory...."