Well Penguin Books hired a communist propagandist to do the cover for the contemporary edition.
Barack Obama's personal little propagandist.
Posted on 09/25/2014 12:26:51 PM PDT by EveningStar
It's Banned Books Week! But people are trying to keep great books out of libraries and schools every hour of every day, year round. And often, people's reasons for challenging these titles are really, really... outlandish. Here are 12 SF and fantasy books that people have given incomprehensible reasons for banning.
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Now they are using “Banned Books week” to promote perversions. By calling it “banned” and promoting it as banned, it makes kids want to read it.
More grooming of our kids.
I wonder how many of these “bans” actually happened. Many of them have that “too good to be true” flavor about them.
I read the article and think its too broad brush. Its not “weird” to say junior high students should not read a book that has graphic depictions of sex or profanity in it. Its also not “weird” to say that children of certain ages should not read books with certain themes. That is educational judgment. Once a kid hits college, they should be able to read whatever they want, no matter what the theme or no matter how much sex or profanity it has in it. But this idea that a teenager has the automatic right to read books with sex or profanity or certain themes as a matter of “freedom of expression” because the works are allegedly “classics” is misplaced. Educational judgment is way too often labeled as “book banning.”
Well Penguin Books hired a communist propagandist to do the cover for the contemporary edition.
Barack Obama's personal little propagandist.
Brave New World is an excellent book, that all intelligent, well-educated adults should read. That said, putting it in a children’s library is insane. Where’s A Clockwork Orange?
Schools ban bibles all the time. Never makes headlines from the American Library Ass.
Let the books fight it out in the marketplace of ideas. Young people are not that fragile.
1. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
2. Bone by Jeff Smith
3. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
4. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
6. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
7. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
10. Little Red Riding Hood
11. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
13 Dreams of My Father by Barak Obama
Sorry, couldn't resist - it is fantasy not SF, my bad!
A somewhat recent book I read had the hero pushed into a commercial-sized wine vat, and he recalls that monks used to take a yearly swim in the vats in days of yore without contaminating the must, as he's being dressed down by the managers of the vineyard.
L. Frank Baum was a communist. If you read the books after the Wizard of Oz, his form of government in Oz is that Ozma assigns everyone in Oz the job they do, then they give all the results of their work to her, and she distributes them as she sees fit. Baum’s take was that this kept everyone happy and fulfilled.
Earth in the Balance - Not THAT’S a work of Science Fiction.
Love Farenheight 451.
The book and movie.
The ultimate in demonstrating fascism.
Ahh, the innocent days of my youth when I could read Fairy Tales and Fantasy without ever once thinking about sex, porn or racial similarities! But, wonder of wonder, we didn’t have all the sick society that we do now, and those who are banning are the same people who endorse that sick culture. Does it make sense?
I once loved Science Fiction and then “progressed’ to James Bond. I enjoyed the Hunger Games and The Stand by Stephen King is one of my favorite books.
I’d like to ban the ‘banners’!
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don’t care, I’m still free
You can’t take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell ‘em I ain’t comin’ back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can’t take the sky from me
There’s no place I can be
Since I found serenity
But you can’t take the sky from me
Holy crap. These book banners can go take a flying fu** at a rolling doughnut.
Ban no books. period. Now I’ve got no problem that parents must give permission for certain books, but banning books is truly Dark Ages BS.
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