2005 Banned books-updated list

[bobthedrummer]

For those that love reading here's what some folks don't want you to have access to. They have been banned for 4 major "reasons", political grounds, religious grounds, sexual grounds or social grounds.

http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/banned.htm

[Dinger]

1. Little House On The Prairie? WTF? It's Higher That Lolita!

I am a huge Laura Ingalls Wilder fan. I don't get that at all.

[wryter2000]

2. The Popul Vuh?

What's the matter with them? Do they think Mayan myths are some kind of competition to Christianity?

[bobthedrummer]

5. The #1 banned book is The Holy Bible though

#4 is The Koran...

[carl_pwccaman]

11. Popul Vuh is disturbing

The Popul Vuh is disturbing for many reasons..., fueling reaction/fear in some:

1) it parallels some of the Genesis story, in a way, though saying that what created the first human, blinded man because the creator(s) feared/were envious of his great sight. Some would not want others to think there is something higher/above the various religions religion's creator god(s), do not want people criticizing the world creator/ruler, it freaks them out.

2) it is full of violence, sacrifice, death, cruelty, which can definitely be a turn off, especially as the creator gods are not portrayed as good.

I.e., many would react, and some would think, and either would make many people uncomfortable.

Isn't censorship often about making certain people comfortable?

Some texts lead one to consider the Bible or Koran to be at their core very disturbing or negative. That's not so comfortable, for a lot of people, especially since the Bible and Koran can really be rather disturbing, to the core, and people try to sidestep these realities.

[Peanutcat]

3. LOL!

Isn't it kind of ironic that the Bible is ahead of the Koran?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. Isn't that a scary list to read . . .

Some of those books are elemental to rational thought and human compassion.

What do they want their teenagers to read?

I know . . . I know . . . "My Pet Goat".

[DemInDistress]

6. where are these books supposedly banned?

not in the USA I'm sure... If so,we're headed off a very slippery slope..

[bobthedrummer]

7. Local school boards have banned books here in America

plus there is quite a history of book banning here

[DemInDistress]

10. wow this is shocking I'll have to investigate this further ^5..nt

[Journeyman]

13. School boards and libraries have been banning books in America. . .

throughout the history of America -- independent citizens groups have an even more sordid history of banning and burning books and newspapers and any thought they couldn't comprehend. I was in North Dakota, stationed with the military, in 1974 when the School Board for the City of Drake ordered their janitor to burn copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in the high school's furnace.

So it's not George W and its not even original with present-day fundamentalists -- there's a nasty streak of anti-intellectualism that pervades this nation's history and a blind base of intolerance that undergirds much of what we like to think is a civilized society.

[DemBones DemBones]

8. You'd think a library group would tell where these books are

banned. I'd guess that the Bible is #1 by virtue of being banned throughout the Muslim world and in commnist countries, mainly China, since Castro has apparently relented and allowed Cubans to practice their religions again.

[davidinalameda]

9. Jude the Obscure should be banned

I wanted to string myself up after reading only a 100 pages or so

on edit: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble?

what the hell is up with that?

[NMMNG]

12. Just goes to show...

When all of the reich wingers go blathering about how this book and that should be banned--just look which book is at the top of the "banned book" list! :rofl:

[ixion]

14. their promotion of existential ignorance is astounding

really. Unfathomable. :crazy: