The Infamous List  

I don't think I would want to understand anyone that would think it was okay to ban any book.

You just jogged my memory CurlyRed.
I read I think it was "The Bear Clan" by Jean M. Auel
They were excellent books.

I've never read Earth's Children. Is the series for adults? I did see the Handmaid's Tale but didn't read the book. I will look in to Margaret Atwood. I'm sure I'd like her books if you do.

It's ridiculous but there are so many people that think HP is evil because it deals with witches. They might try actually reading them before making this judgement??

Yes goodie, Clan of The Cave bear,The Valley Of Horses, The Mammoth hunters, The Plains Of passage, The Shelters of Stone. I read them all one summer.

Jean Plaidy is another good author, Gal, if you like historical novels.

I love historical novels! I'll look for her, too, Curly...thanks!

They are the ones I read CurlyRed.
They were all very good reading.

I prefer paranormal historical novels.

One of my favorite book series is paranormal historical (they really do exist LOL).

Heehee....I don't think i bolded that one, did I?? LOL

Aw silly me, you didn't did you.

Haha!!!

I can see shielding children from certain books that have mature content, but I can't understand banning them all together.

I will say that Sleeping Beauty was NASTY. Made the Story of O seem tame.

LOL ElicBxn Thank you so much. No one I ever speak to seems to have even heard of The Book Of O.

Story... book... same thing at this hour lol

I learned about it in a Library Science course during the part about censorship.

Do Bears read.

I'm not sure. Someone on the Janet Evanovich mailing list I moderate posted it. The list is officially called "The most frequently challenged books of 2007". When I just googled it myself, many years of this same type of list came up on different sites, so I am not sure where it originated.

Looks like some of them came from the ALA site but others have compiled similar lists.

I was challenged to find the exact list. LOL

http://74.125.45.104/sear...

Thank you.

You're welcome. I was wrong about the title of the list. It's the most frequently challenged books from 1990-2000 but maybe it came out in 2007?

Why am I compelled to write an APA style reference? LOL

Thanks again, "gal".

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Umm a bookie hey Momma, I will have $10 each way on the horse that is going to win today. ROFL

LOL, yes girl, i love to read!! and that is what i call myself, a bookie cause i love to read

People wanting them banned from different libraries. The American Library Association has these lists on their website. Looks like there is more than one list.

I think it's crazy to shield anyone from reading what they want to read.

Bugger I thought I was going to win heaps of money on the horse races with you being my bookie Momma.

LOL sorry honey!!!

I think it's an Aussie thing Goodie.

I agree, and even if they are inappropriate for certain audiences, that does not mean they should be taken away from everyone. Stupid!

This is a list from a library in Illinois, but I looked at the ALA website and they had all kinds of lists posted with most of the same books on them.

It sure makes no sense to me. Just very closed minded people throwing their two cents in where it's not asked for.

I was shocked to see Silverstein as well. I love his, "The Giving Tree".

I agree, it sometimes seems like we are regressing instead if progressing, doesn't it?

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The only thing I remember about Private Parts was that it was dumb. I only saw the movie, but it bored me.

I liked the movie, of course I liked Howard Stern too lol. I havent read the book, but with it being by stern, I can see why it would be banned lol.

I should clarify, ive read 14 of those in school, in all though ive read 26, the others were outside of school.

I can't believe how many I have not read. I need to spend a day at a "liberal" library and start looking for some of these.

Lol yeah I know me too. Though I might have read more and not reconize them. Like The earths children series, I knew it as the clan of the cave bear series, didnt know it was called the other one. Ive read oh soooooooooooooo many books over the years that who knows lol. Hmmm Ive read three of the cave bear books, I didnt know there was five lol.

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They would probably love to do just that. And then burn them. After all you can get educated in a library. Hell one of the first things hitler did was close libraries, and stalin and well anybody that is a dictator.

It's a much used concept, the idea of closing libraries and removing education. I've read several sci-fi books set in the future where books have been destroyed or hidden so that the people can be controlled by the elders who are educated...the people only know what they have been told because there is nothing to read...no keyboards either...they are superfluous when the teaching of reading and writing are obsolete.

I can see that, mclendon. Keeping some of them out of the reach of children is not necessarily a bad idea. What I'm against is not allowing anyone access to them.

Hmmm I started reading my first stephen king book in 7th grade, all because a teachers aid was telling me about them. I cant remember the first one I read but I know cujo was some of the first, those books are a little mature for someone that young. My parents had never heard of king lol. WHen I was in 8th grade I was reading shawshank redemption, I was at the part where he was being raped, and set my book down, open, to go do something. My mom picked it up and started reading and freaked lol. I wasnt allowed to read his books for awhile lol.