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Musicmystery -> Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:30:08 AM)
Hi folks, I'm increasingly concerned about the zest with which fundamentalists ban books, even seemingly innocuous selections. Give 'er a read... http://writingtrue.blogspot.com/2007/04/harry-potter-and-banning-of-books.html Enjoy, Tim

Sanity -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:35:17 AM)
While they're banned, anyone can get them. Why try [sm=banghead.gif]

goodlittlegirl28 -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:40:42 AM)
in this age of computers, dvds, and gaming systems, it amazes me that someone would critize anything that has children putting down technology and picking up a book. the harry potter series has made reading popular again. when was there ever a time that a 9 year old attempted to read a 500 page book of their own free will? this popular work of fiction has increased and improved upon the literacy skills of our children. i'd put them on every doorstep like the phone book. although i do know quite a few people who use the banned book list to choose reading selections. any way you look at it, these books get read.

TheHeretic -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 9:03:25 AM)
Ahhhhh. They're always trying to ban something. It mostly backfires. I'm reminded of a Mike Royko column where he begged Jerry Falwell etc. to denounce his book, try to block the release, burn it in the streets. He needed the money a best-seller would generate and the publisher was going cheap on the ad campaign.

Arpig -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 9:28:14 AM)
No book should be banned. Books contain ideas, and any attempt to stem the flow of ideas is evil...end of debate.

SeekingMatureSub -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 11:35:27 AM)
I once heard it said somewhere that if we allow them to burn books today, they will burn people tomorrow. Anyone else ever heard this analogy? Make sense to you, too?

OrionTheWolf -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 12:29:45 PM)
When will the religious zealots (any religion) learn the correct way to keep control of the masses? You distract them with things like shock jocks saying shocking things, bratty movies stars over dosing, and getting them to watch only religious news casts. Psshhhh. You would think they would learn by now. Seriously though, our freedoms and liberties are being attacked from all sides in the US, and the enemy is not foreign. Will the American people stand together and fight, or will they faction out and pretend they are cheerleaders in a football game? Orion

slaveluci -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 2:46:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Musicmystery Hi folks, I'm increasingly concerned about the zest with which fundamentalists ban books, even seemingly innocuous selections. Tim Those who call for any book to be banned always amaze me. Just because they choose not to read it seems to indicate to them that no one should be permitted to. i always loved this quote about censorship: "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it" - Mark Twain Seems to sum it up quite well, i think...........luci

Archer -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:05:42 PM)
Believe me even in Georgia this woman is considered a nutjob by almost everyone I know. She lives in the next county and has lost the case 3 times now as I recall Schoolboard, county court and State court all ruled against her.

Archer -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:08:57 PM)
Oooppsss I thought the news of the case here in GEorgia had made a bigger splash and was on the other side of the link, LOL Well our local case was a woman who has lost 3 or 4 times. Glad the folks making the decissions had a brain.

NakedOnMyChain -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:17:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: goodlittlegirl28 in this age of computers, dvds, and gaming systems, it amazes me that someone would critize anything that has children putting down technology and picking up a book. the harry potter series has made reading popular again. when was there ever a time that a 9 year old attempted to read a 500 page book of their own free will? this popular work of fiction has increased and improved upon the literacy skills of our children. i'd put them on every doorstep like the phone book. although i do know quite a few people who use the banned book list to choose reading selections. any way you look at it, these books get read. I agree exactly. Edited to add: That goes for you, too, Arpig.

dcnovice -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:20:22 PM)
Years ago, the New York Times Book Review did a piece on banned books and published a list of frequently targeted works. I was hugely amused to see that almost all of them has been assigned reading at my Catholic high school!

lovewithoutfear -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 8:44:47 PM)
"this popular work of fiction has increased and improved upon the literacy skills of our children." Of course it has -- that's part of why it is seen as a threat. The idea that good could come from something they don't agree with is odious to pro-censorship folks. I've also heard it suggested that promoting skills like literacy and critical thinking are not really on the top of the agenda for folks who would rather tell others what to think. My 2 cents.

luckydog1 -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 10:01:37 PM)
Where exactly are these books banned? Not in America. Some books with unpopular poltiical/historical views are banned in much of the EU. Basically some people are saying to not read these books, other people are saying they are great, who cares. They are not banned. Iran on the other hand pays bounties to kill blasphemous authors. Lets try to keep a little perspective here.

luckydog1 -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 10:03:25 PM)
And lets not forget that a segment of the left tries to get books pulled from schools and libraies here in America. Huck Finn is usually at the top of that list.

lovewithoutfear -> RE: Banning Books (4/21/2007 10:12:18 PM)
"Where exactly are these books banned? " Um, I didn't say any books were banned anywhere. I made mention of pro-censorship folks (people who would like to ban books) and people who would prefer to tell others what to think. However, books are sometimes "banned," or effectively banned, by being removed from school libraries, curricula and reading lists either officially or unofficially. Unofficial "bans" also can and do occur by the power of boycott or threatened boycott, such as the ones rumored to have occurred against major booksellers by certain churches in regards to everything from Playboy and Green Egg magazines to books on sex or other controversial topics.

meatcleaver -> RE: Banning Books (4/22/2007 12:19:44 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: luckydog1 Where exactly are these books banned? Not in America. Some books with unpopular poltiical/historical views are banned in much of the EU. Basically some people are saying to not read these books, other people are saying they are great, who cares. They are not banned. Iran on the other hand pays bounties to kill blasphemous authors. Lets try to keep a little perspective here. What are these banned books? The only banned book I have heard about in the EU is Mein Kampf in Germany. I don't agree with it but given their history I can understand it. I'm waiting to be enlightened.

juliaoceania -> RE: Banning Books (4/22/2007 1:09:42 AM)
Anything that children love to read has to be full of the Devil, otherwise they wouldn't enjoy it so much (just kidding in case someone takes me seriously)

susie -> RE: Banning Books (4/22/2007 1:36:17 AM)
At one time in the UK someone tried to get the Famous Five books by Enid Blyton banned as they encouraged children to run off on adventures without telling their parents and encouraged them to speak to strangers!! Thankfully sense won over. I for one read all of them when I was growing up and they did me no harm....... hm or did they[8\|] So now we just have to put up with the madness of those that banned the "Ba Ba Black Sheep" nursery rhymme in case it upset black people and all the other politically correct nonsense that comes up regularly.

luckydog1 -> RE: Banning Books (4/22/2007 1:58:49 AM)
Yeah Meat, that and Neo Nazi stuff. One just got convicted for his writings on holocoust denial. Isn't it more than just Germany? I stand corrected if wrong. If there was ever a candidate for an idea to ban, it would be that, but I philosophically disagree with the idea of banning ideas. Not being in a library or elementary school is not banning.

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