How do you celebrate it every year? Personally, I take all of my books and give em to the old lighter fluid.
That's what we are supposed to do that week, right?
Anyway, honestly I make it a priority every national book burning week to read a couple banned books.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Um, is that the same as Banned Book Week?
Is that this week? I always forget... Usually I attend and/or hold readings from banned works.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
Yes it is, I just like calling it national book burning week because it sounds cooler. This year it is from September 29–October 6, just wanted to make sure everyone marks their calendars.
I propose we change the name to book burning week officially.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Interesting... if the books are banned how do we read them? Or are they books banned in other countries?
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
They are banned in some cities, school districts, libraries, and yes, other countries.
Posted by JennaDean (Member # 8816) on :
I knew there were books banned from certain schools and libraries, but I didn't know any cities in the USA actually took it upon themselves to ban books. Wow.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
The problem is, most of these banned books are average books. Some of them are downright boring. Or trite.
They just have a "rebel" mystique thanks to the banning. Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Yeah when I read the list of the books the Pope said good Catholics shouldn't read (back when I was Catholic) I was a little disappointed in his taste. I mean, so many of them were so banal.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Maybe we should celebrate by listing our own personal lists of books, (or movies, music or art) we would like to ban if we believed in that.
My number one is Disney's The Jungle Book movie. That's sacrilegious if anything ever was. Second is anything about Disney's Pooh. Oh there used to be a time when I wanted to ban Madonna (for her utter lack of any hint of musical taste), but I guess that situation corrected itself in time.
Edit to add MUZAK!!!!
[ May 26, 2007, 06:26 PM: Message edited by: Tatiana ]
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
The Da Vinci Code.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Some banned books are average, but there are some very good ones listed, too-- like Bridge to Terebithia. Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Banning books is such a mediocre method. If you want to kill an idea, why not go to the source and chop off the heads that contain it?
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Some banned books are average, but there are some very good ones listed, too-- like Bridge to Terebithia.
That's why I stated "most" and not "all".
Really, most of the banned books on the list were ones I was forced to read in junior high school to "celebrate freedom". The contradiction never seemed to dawn on the teachers.
Posted by Celaeno (Member # 8562) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: They are banned in some cities, school districts, libraries, and yes, other countries.
Cities in the US? How is that constitutional?
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
It usually is not that the city does, but that all libraries and schools within one city (or usually very small rural town) ban a certain book.
Someone in my town tried to have Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging banned a few years ago, so they had a committee of teachers, students of that age range and older, ministers and other religious authorities and a lawyer read it. The only one who objected at all was a 14 year old male who thought that it was geared for people older than himself. The book is still available at all school libraries.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat:
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: Some banned books are average, but there are some very good ones listed, too-- like Bridge to Terebithia.
That's why I stated "most" and not "all".
Really, most of the banned books on the list were ones I was forced to read in junior high school to "celebrate freedom". The contradiction never seemed to dawn on the teachers.
Heh, true, and yet the truly great banned books we didn't get to read; Brave New World for example.
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