Okay! Somebody gag me quick cause I am thinking AGAIN!!!!.......................
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (158615)
Boise, Idaho
November 9, 2009 7:09pm CST
One of my favorite books is Farenheit 451( by Ray Bradbury) and was the subject matter for one of my topics several months ago. It is the futuristic story of a firefighter who is ordered to burn books and begins to question the whole thing. There are scenes of people who have committed to memorizing their chosen books and are reciting them. It gives me such an eery feeling of a time when people do not have complete rein over what they are allowed or not allowed to do. And reading a book. We can just go online and order any book we want to or go to the library and check it out. Not in this futuristic world! What are your thoughts on this? Are you book reader/lover? Were you taught when you were young how to open the book for the first time and relax the spine? Do you think that by any stretch of the imagination will or could our so called demecratic country become this way? What other rights can you see being taken away if this should ever happen? I welcome your thoughts.
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@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
10 Nov 09
I sure hope that dont happen here.
and now I am thinking I know somewhere in history in another country and (germany ) comes to mind that they burnt all the books they could! and I still not sure it was there.
But I do remeber reading something of the sort in history books.
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
Yes, you are right they did order book burnings in Germany and, I saw on a documentary about Russian history that they did it there as well. Hard life those.
@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Nov 09
I have heard that. Also that they are questioning alot of so they don't want to put it out to the kids now.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Nov 09
you think you can just order any book but there a books that are banned and we never even get to know about them, I wrote an article about this several months ago as well.
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
Interesting. I would like very much to read it.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Nov 09
if you are a member of ac you can see the article up there along with the other 595 articles that I have written lol
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Nov 09
So you use the same username on there as you do here?
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
10 Nov 09
Hi, Celticeagle!
The list of banned books grows by leaps and bounds every year! Fortunately, not many people give them the attention the lists' proponents would like. Censorship is unforgivable! After all, knowledge is just about the only thing nobody can ever take away from us, no matter how they try. Without books, our precious knowledge would be severely impaired, to say the least! I fight censorship, and will always do so. I've been immersed in books since before I was old enough for school.
My father saw how I loved books, magazines and newspapers, and taught me to read by the time I was 3. Every morning, I was proud to be allowed to read him an article or two from his paper, and the first time I felt grown up, about a million years ago, was when I bought a book of my own for the first time.
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
14 Nov 09
The American Library Association posts it at all times!
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
Censorship should not be tolerated on any shore! I remember reading from Reader's Digest to my great grandmother when i was probably 5 or 6. I come from a long line of book lovers. My grandmother taught me to respect the Bible, my mother read to me constantly and I am proud to pass this on to my daughter and her children. I want to know where I go to check out this banned book list. I am curious.
@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
14 Nov 09
[b]It's not that way yet, though some books are being suppressed & their authors marginalized in our republic (we're not a democracy in the U,S.). Still, it's not hard for me to imagine this happening in our increasingly in our P.C. society. Not so blatantly, perhaps, but censorship is always trying to get its nose under the tent of freedom.
I do wish some really good director would remake the film; the old 60s one was pretty bad....}oP The story is so good it deserves much better treatment.
Maggiepie
IMPEACH HIM![/b]
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
18 Nov 09
[b]Oh, boy! A new one, you say! Great! Any idea who'll direct, write the screenplay, act in it yet? Anything? I want to see it, in any case! I'll bet you it's being done because someone agrees with my thought, that it deserves better treatment. Thanks for the heads up on it! 
Maggiepie
"WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?"[/b]
Maggiepie
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
26 Nov 09
Heres the link on info for the new Farenheit 451 due out in 2012:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360556/
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
18 Nov 09
I agree with alot of what you sad. I hear there is another remake come out in a year or so. I am curious to see if it is a better take on the book. Some very good scenes i hope they don't lose too. Guess we will see.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
11 Nov 09
I think it would be a strange world to have the right of read taken from us. I do think that a lot of our rights are being slowly taken and it is not beyond the imagination to think it may only get worse in time. Privacy is the right that comes to mind with your discussion. I think that it slowly becomes more extreme that our privacy is taken but for every bit taken, there is always a reasoning behind it...hmmm
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
10 Nov 09
Hi celtic, I haven't been able to read this yet but would like to. It sounds as though a futuristic book is simply basing itself on history, which is only to be expected when humans are involved. Book burning is entirely reminscent of Krisstallnact and the Cultural Revolution, whilst censorship may well date back further than the Catholic Index.
I notice at the end that your question is about your own democratic country where it may well happen one day. That is one thing our democratic country has never been involved in though.
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
I hope, in this instance, that you are wrong. Yes, it seems science fiction does follow history to some degree doesn't it?
@GardenGerty (157462)
• United States
10 Nov 09
As a young child I was encouraged to memorize as much of the Bible as possible because in some countries it is not allowed and if we memorize it we will always have it. I can see something that specific being restricted, but not all books, and not with the electronics availability. I think it is great to memorize, though.
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@sid556 (30960)
• United States
10 Nov 09
Yes, I am a book lover and always have a good book going. I just can't imagine that right being taken away from us. I think if things got to that point that we'd all revolt or I would hope that we would. I should have probably waited to answer this until I was more in the mood to think. As it is, I just jumped on here for a quick little break as I have a zillion things that I need to get done. I didn't want to be thinking also. Thanks Celtic!
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
Hey sid. I would hope we would all be at revolt statis at that time. Glad you stopped by. Take a deep breath.
@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
I feel the same way. I just couldn't imagine anything like that happening.
@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
But we do have adequate acess. I am glad of that. The government is an embarassment in many ways that is for sure.
@bird123 (10632)
• United States
10 Nov 09
The day is comming when there will be world wide access to every book ever written. It will all be on-line. Knowledge and communications are getting better. Also when the entire world can communicate on-line, maybe people can understand each other better and maybe stop some wars. Things are getting better.Of course, we will have to find something to do with all those empty book shelves.
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
I am scooping up as many of my favorites as I can then. I think there will always be books filling shelves. I hope so anyway. As long as i am alive and my kid too. And several Mylotters I am thinking. Teehee
@jb78000 (15139)
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10 Nov 09
i have heard of farenheit 451 but never read it. hard to tell what will happen in the future but when i was researching the banning of books in different countries i did see that some libraries in your country do this quite often (including this book i gather) although the government isn't any longer. could be a slippery slope...
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@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
There is a new version of 451 coming out in 2012. Cool! I don't know about our libraries banning any books in this country! I hope not. I have heard of some school libraries banning certain books though.
@kurdafya_01 (44)
• Philippines
10 Nov 09
i love books and i love reading. for me reading is the equivalent of breathing. i could never last a day without leafing through some magazine or newspaper or relaxing with a good novel before bed. i sure hope none of that futuristic crap will happen in our future. i do remember though, vatican used to burn books they deemed as heretic. wasn't dan brown's book the da vinci code lambasted by the church?
@celticeagle (158615)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Nov 09
Yes, Da Vinci code was meant with much approval by the catholic church. I feel the same way you do about books although I haven't been reading as much as I usually do here lately.
