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JitterbugPerfume

(18,183 posts) Mon Sep 23, 2013, 10:09 AM Sep 2013

It is Banned Book week!

what are you reading that the church lady thinks is to naughty?

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It is Banned Book week! (Original Post) JitterbugPerfume Sep 2013 OP

I am less interested in the books on banned lists Curmudgeoness Sep 2013 #1

Ralph Elison's Invisible Man, recently banned in N.C. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2013 #2

As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner Tindalos Sep 2013 #3

I tried to reread The Rosy Crucifixion pscot Sep 2013 #4

Montaigne was banned in France pscot Sep 2013 #5

Does this mean *I* get to ban a book? SheilaT Sep 2013 #6

I took a class on Obscene Literature in college jeffrey_pdx Sep 2013 #7

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)

1. I am less interested in the books on banned lists

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 06:03 PM

Sep 2013

as I am in the reasons why these books get on the list.

This is a list of banned and challenged classics by the American Library Association and there are few that I can come up with the reason:

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics

Here are the top books on the list---WTF:

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

2. Ralph Elison's Invisible Man, recently banned in N.C.

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 01:10 AM

Sep 2013

Invisible Man Banned: Ralph Ellison's Landmark Novel Banned From School Libraries
"Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," which won the National Book Award in 1953, was instantly recognized as a masterpiece, a novel that captured the grim realities of racial discrimination as no book had, " Rosenblatt wrote. "Its reputation grew as Ellison retreated into a mythic literary silence that made his one achievement definitive."

Including the book in its list of 100 Best English Language Novels since 1923, Time literary critic Lev Grossman also expressed great admiration for Ellison's work.

"Evenhandedly exposing the hypocrisies and stereotypes of all comers, Invisible Man is far more than a race novel, or even a bildungsroman. It’s the quintessential American picaresque of the 20th century."

The notion that it has been banned by the racist on N.C. made this a must read for me.

Tindalos

(10,525 posts)

3. As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 01:08 PM

Sep 2013

I didn't even know it was banned. Not sure why either.

pscot

(21,031 posts)

4. I tried to reread The Rosy Crucifixion

Reply to Tindalos (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 05:34 PM

Sep 2013

not too long ago. I couldn't really get into. I think Miller was banned in France. He's a good writer though. He just grabs you by the collar and drags you into his life. Reading Miller takes stamina.

pscot

(21,031 posts)

5. Montaigne was banned in France

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 04:11 PM

Sep 2013

The Church decided he didn't give Mankind sufficient credit for general awesomeness. He was proscribed for more than 150 years.

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

6. Does this mean *I* get to ban a book?

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 06:28 PM

Sep 2013

I'll start by banning the Bible. Any and all translations. Old and New Testament. Also the Koran.

jeffrey_pdx

(222 posts)

7. I took a class on Obscene Literature in college

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 01:12 AM

Sep 2013

All the books we read were banned somewhere at sometime. It was interesting to see some of the older books that had been banned when they came out, they seem so tame to the newer ones. I'm thinking of "Lady Chattersley Lover" compared to "Naked Lunch" or "Last Exit to Brooklyn" (which has chapters that are actually hard to read due to extreme violence).

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