Happy Banned Books Week!

[the_leander]

Here in the U.S.A, the last week of September is always Banned Books Week. This campaign, started 13 years ago by the American Library Association, is designed to raise awareness about censorship and encourage everyone, particularly kids, to expand their horizons and read books that others find questionable enough to try and ban. It’s a celebration of the right to read.

Read on!

 

[cecilia]

ah, yes, the stories the idiots are too afraid to read

makes me want to pull out my copy of Fahrenheit 451

 

[faethor]

Top 10 books banned over the last 10 years. http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged/index.cfm

 

[metalman]

makes me want to pull out my copy of Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 is not on the banned list

These books were widely banned

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
Women in Love, by DH Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

 

[cecilia]

something tells me you never read Fahrenheit 451