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Old 04-17-2006, 07:55 PM
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most often banned books

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedboo...frequently.htm

I'm surprised at some of the books on there, and surprised that some are so high.

Ones I've read:
the Scary Story series
Of Mice and Men
My Brother Sam is Dead
some of the Goosebumps books
Sex
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Outsiders
Flowers for Algernon
The Stupids
The Witches
Lord of the Flies
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Old 04-17-2006, 08:16 PM
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I've read a few from the list and honestly don't understand a lot of these choices. Where's Waldo? Why? How to eat fried worms too... when I was really young it was one of the best books I had read. I don't know, stuffy ass people making stupid ass rules; it's not eloquent but it's accurate.


Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
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
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The Witches by Roald Dahl
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Carrie by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
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Old 04-17-2006, 10:38 PM
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What could possibly be found offensive about Where's Waldo?


What the fuck...
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Old 04-18-2006, 12:58 AM
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Book banning=total bullshit.
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Old 04-18-2006, 02:35 AM
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Heh...a bunch of those are mandatory reading at myy school:D
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Old 04-18-2006, 04:08 AM
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Awww.....American Psycho? They should read that to all school children. :p

Seriously though...what the fuck is up with the books about puberty? Why the hell would you want to keep a teenager from reading about what they're going through?
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Old 04-18-2006, 12:35 PM
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To kill a mockingbird..??
oh your kidding..
Loved that story
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Old 04-18-2006, 03:34 PM
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What could possibly be found offensive about Where's Waldo?
He looks like some sort of computer nerd retard, mind you so does Harry Potter, now that should be on the banned list, specky twat!
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Old 04-18-2006, 06:03 PM
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Maybe they banned Waldo because some educators thought it had no educational value.
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Old 04-18-2006, 06:36 PM
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Maybe they banned Waldo because some educators thought it had no educational value.
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