Foo - Your favorite banned literature

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Speckled Band, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Very punny.

Huckleberry Finn

Anything by Larry Flint.

Wasn't Catcher In the Rye a banned book at one point?

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

I liked most of the stuff Cypress posted.

Lolita.

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Lottery was brilliant for its time.

Brave New World annoys me. It's mentioned so much as classic literature of a political nature. I was so disappointed by it. I think its one of the most overrated books of all-time.

Banned from what? Are these books that aren't sold anywhere or found in libraries?

Exactly. I don't get it.

Banned from what? Are these books that aren't sold anywhere or found in libraries?

Books that were banned in schools (at least at one time).

My SO has banned me from reading Penthouse Letters, does that count?

Mark Twain
Uncle Remus
Shakespeare (the "taming the beast with two backs" line in R&J offended the fundies here)

So much has been banned this list could go on for pages.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn recently passed away... :(

What? No mention of the big daddy of 'em all? Naked Lunch.

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I might go out on a limb that if a work of literature has not been banned (or otherwise seen as threatening) to some group's way of thinking, then it hardly merits reading at all.

Do you really want to read anything that is not challenging on some level or another?

jim

I might go out on a limb that if a work of literature has not been banned (or otherwise seen as threatening) to some group's way of thinking, then it hardly merits reading at all.

Do you really want to read anything that is not challenging on some level or another?

jim
I think challenging depends on the individual.
for myself, this was quite difficult on the first few shots:
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Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Just finished it. Hardcore smut with philosophy ... :D

What? No mention of the big daddy of 'em all? Naked Lunch.

Yeah ... ol Burroughs was a weird, nasty bird ... :lol:

I might go out on a limb that if a work of literature has not been banned (or otherwise seen as threatening) to some group's way of thinking, then it hardly merits reading at all.

Do you really want to read anything that is not challenging on some level or another?

jim
+1

I pretty much used our school's ban list as a required reading list. Dangerous thinker am I.

"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Oh and hey, not that he's banned, but I wouldn't want my mother to read just about anything by John Updike, even though I really enjoy his work :thumb:.

They used to tell students in my middle school not to bring gun magazines and porn to school. It never seemed to stop anyone. I don't think they had prohibitions on any other reading subjects.

I never understand this banning stuff!

I like my literature with epic disasters! I love floods and fire raining from the skies. I like wars, mayhem, revenge, pastoral scenes, advice, greed, avarice, and adulterty in my books! Incest, ****, mutilation, thievery, betrayal, murder, and all sorts of bad stuff are what I read! Yep all that exciting stuff!

I especially love books where the protagonist dies horribly at the hands of evil guys!

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Do you suppose anyone will be banning this anytime soon! #1 best seller of all time!

Don't ban books! Give people choices as to what they will read!! My .02 cents!;):)

Girls on bikes porn threads.

Girls on bikes porn threads.

N-E-V-E-R !!!!!!!!:notamused:

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1984 - George Orwell
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Twelfth Night - Shakespeare

Grapes of Wrath

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Shambleau by C.L. Moore. Banned by Catholic Church for overt human/alien practices.

Getting yourself on the Index (of works banned by the Catholic Church) used to be considered the Nobel Prize back before there was a Nobel Prize.

jim

Bonus points for anyone who can name what author was on the Index for the longest stretch.

Mark Twain

Getting yourself on the Index (of works banned by the Catholic Church) used to be considered the Nobel Prize back before there was a Nobel Prize.

jim

Bonus points for anyone who can name what author was on the Index for the longest stretch.

Galileo Galilei?

Shakespeare?

Yup. Good ole Galileo. He was unbanned in 1976.

what literature did Galileo write?

I thought he wrote scientific treatises.

The Giver
The Handmaid's Tale

See lists of oft-challenged books at the American Library Association banned book site (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/frequentlychallengedbooks.cfm), and review how the 2000-2007 list (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlists/TOP_100_in_2000_2007.pdf) compares to the 1990-1999 list (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/top100challenged.cfm).

what literature did Galileo write?

I thought he wrote scientific treatises.

The Assayer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assayer)

The Assayer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assayer)

thanks :)

They used to tell students in my middle school not to bring gun magazines and porn to school. It never seemed to stop anyone. I don't think they had prohibitions on any other reading subjects.

the best illustration of geeks and their obsession for guns i've seen in a long time.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn recently passed away... :(

Mother Russia (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c13U3KfUnHY)

It was written for him. Back in the '70s

The Lottery was brilliant for its time.

Brave New World annoys me. It's mentioned so much as classic literature of a political nature. I was so disappointed by it. I think its one of the most overrated books of all-time.

I have a soft spot for dystopian futures or post apocalyptic lit. :p

The Giver
The Handmaid's Tale

See lists of oft-challenged books at the American Library Association banned book site (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/frequentlychallengedbooks.cfm), and review how the 2000-2007 list (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlists/TOP_100_in_2000_2007.pdf) compares to the 1990-1999 list (http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/top100challenged.cfm).

Thanks for posting that. I read Kaffir Boy, by Mathabane. Heavy read.

I have a soft spot for dystopian futures or post apocalyptic lit. :p

I kindof do too, but I was just disappointed with Brave New World.


Have you read Anthem by Ayn Rand? Similar premise, but done MUCH better, IMO. Written in similar time frame (maybe 6-7 years after Huxley's).

I kindof do too, but I was just disappointed with Brave New World.


Have you read Anthem by Ayn Rand? Similar premise, but done MUCH better, IMO. Written in similar time frame (maybe 6-7 years after Huxley's).

A long time ago, never been too much a fan of Rand's work.

A long time ago, never been too much a fan of Rand's work.

Just different points of view then. I think her work is amazing (even if her underlying philosophy is a bit whacked). Her stories are so tightly woven its unbelievable, especially Atlas Shrugged.

Just different points of view then. I think her work is amazing (even if her underlying philosophy is a bit whacked). Her stories are so tightly woven its unbelievable, especially Atlas Shrugged.

I should probably read them again. I read very few books over again, too many cool ones out there I haven't touched a first time. Orwell, Golding...those get periodic reads.

I should probably read them again. I read very few books over again, too many cool ones out there I haven't touched a first time. Orwell, Golding...those get periodic reads.

When I said other similar but better versions, Orwell was another one I was thinking of. 1984 was quite the thoughtful read (even though I hated Animal Farm).

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