It's Banned Books Week!!

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This week is the week to celebrate the books that someone, sometime, somewhere, thought were so terrible that no only shall THEY not read them, but they thought NOONE should read them.

Yes, people are STILL trying to ban books. This is the list of 100 most challenged (i.e. people tried to ban them) recorded by the American Library Association for the decade 1990-1999.

Ok people, how many of them have YOU read? I've only read 14. sad

But then again, something like five of them are Judy Blume and I counted another ten or so that were non-fiction and puberty and/or sex based.

By Thornback. 28/09/09, 06:33 am

To Kill a Mockingbird.

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I honestly only read TKaM in a fit of desperation on Guide Jamboree - I had run out of my books and was reduced to trading with the other girls. I REALLY enjoyed it though. Depressing though.

By Aikome. 28/09/09, 06:39 am

Where would you find a list of banned books ? `-`

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I linkied: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/1990_1999/index.cfm

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This the most challenged 1990-1999, as recorded by the American Library Assoc.

By Li-Bai. 28/09/09, 07:18 am

Isn't there some icky banned book called '100 Days of Sodom' or something like that? >.>

By firecat70. 28/09/09, 07:21 am

I have read 14, most of them when I was 10-14 XD
Go my badass pre/barelyteen self!

By Kat. 28/09/09, 07:56 am

I read quite a few of those

but arent things like the archaist cook book and dante's inferno (or divine comedy) usually on lists of banned books

By Kelz. 28/09/09, 08:16 am

Only 9 or 10. /fail.

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This is the "most frequently attempted banned books from 1990-1999" - probably a most-banned-ever list you'd get different ones. I looked around the website and couldn't find a most-banned-ever list.

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All I have to say is Go Ask Alice is a really freaky book... for me anyway xD

By Aikome. 28/09/09, 08:22 am

Hmmm ~ I read some.

The few Stephen King and Judy Blume ones..
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` James and the Giant Peach ? C'on.. t-that's just ridiculous.

Haha, I was actually searching for VC Andrews in there.

By iwuvanime. 28/09/09, 08:24 am

I have read about 16.......
I laugh at goosebumps...I have read almost every single one of them.

I laugh at these two though

Where Did I Come From?, by Peter Mayle
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters, by Lynda Madaras

Because knowing what's going on is a bad thing!.........

By Thornback. 28/09/09, 08:29 am

Heh, Judy Blume.
I remember the teacher who ran our school book club a few year back telling us of the utter SCANDAL that "Forever" caused in her school when she was our age. They passed it around in suspicious looking paper bags....

By Ninaarrx3. 28/09/09, 08:34 am

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Goosebumps (Series), by R.L. Stine

Harry Potter (Series), by J.K. Rowling

James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl

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Thats all I remeber reading from the list XDD

We studied Of Mice & Men for school last year lmfao

By Aikome. 28/09/09, 08:36 am

Huuur` at Goosebumps.

My dad used ot read them to me for bedtime stories when I was about six ^u^"

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I'm a big sook - I couldn't read Goosebumps even in the daylight until I was about 15.

By **Admin**. 28/09/09, 09:23 am

I've read... (sort of 8D)

11. The Giver, by Lois Lowry (Haven't read it - but I will. 8D It's on my list...)
15. Goosebumps (Series), by R.L. Stine
22. The Witches, by Roald Dahl
38. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton (D8 I LOVE THE OUTSIDERS)
50. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
87. Where’s Waldo?, by Martin Hanford (DOES THIS MEAN THE PICTURE BOOK?)

By PIe. 28/09/09, 09:38 am

Wow, I feel very uncontroversial, I've only read 7 of them
15. Goosebumps
38. The Outsiders
40. TKaMB
50. James and the Giant Peach
48. HP series
82. The Dead Zone
87. Whers Waldo?

By Pura. 28/09/09, 10:01 am

I've read eight 8D. Seven of them are Harry Potter. I MIGHT have read James and the Giant Peach, as well, but I can't remember. I love the movie though xDD

KotoneVersus has read 18 of them though xDD

By Kat. 28/09/09, 11:50 am

I have to say though of mice and men isn't that bad
just painful to read when i had to study it for english lol

By **Rowan**. 30/09/09, 01:24 pm

I'VE READ EIGHT TOO, PURA Very Happy

Most for school~

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Why is James and the Giant Peach a Banned Book.. ?

WTF

Brain does not compute !

By Cassiel. 30/09/09, 11:24 pm

u_ne_korn wrote:: I'm a big sook - I couldn't read Goosebumps even in the daylight until I was about 15.

I win... I can't even read them now u__u

The Witches, by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood (lol I studied this last year)
The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
Harry Potter (Series), by J.K. Rowling

I fail, only 5

~~I so want to read The New Joy of Gay Sex, by Charles Silverstein~~

By **Rowan**. 01/10/09, 11:08 am

Actually, I've read ten lol.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
Goosebumps (Series), by R.L. Stine
Earth’s Children (Series), by Jean M. Auel
Harry Potter (Series), by J.K. Rowling
James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Where’s Waldo?, by Martin Hanford (I got confused, I know it as Where's Wally Very Happy

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