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It reads like a "must-read" list. Some of the best literature I have read is on it. Don't expect to read Ulysses in a week though, unless you're a better reader than I. I started reading it in 1975 for a college course and I finally finished it around 5 years ago. :yawn:
 
I grew up down in North Carolina, and this nonsense (banning books) would come up occasionally. One of my English Lit. teachers made the point that it had the reverse effect - it made us want to read those books even more.

Glad to see there's a place on the net dealing with it.

thx - cpr
 
About 1960 Boston started make a list of books banned in Boston. It wasn't long before authors and publishers realized that they had a gold mine !!! Knowing exactly what words and phrases would get the books banned they made sure they were in the books - and everyone ran out and bought them ! The advertising was - 'This book is so hot and steamy that it has been banned in Boston' !!
The movie " Deep Throat" had similar effect when many theaters wouldn't show it .
 
orca8589 said:
I grew up down in North Carolina, and this nonsense (banning books) would come up occasionally. One of my English Lit. teachers made the point that it had the reverse effect - it made us want to read those books even more.

Glad to see there's a place on the net dealing with it.

thx - cpr
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In "Canturbury Tales" The first novel written in English, sort of, Goeffrey Chaucer said "Forbede us thynge, desiren we." It probably wasn't a new idea then.
 
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Read over half of them. The Lord of the Flies was a school subject book. In short it mirrors a nasty side of humanity. Dump a whole lot of people in a situation with limited resources, no leadership and the big b@#@tards are going to lever their way to the top. If you were you were weak, nothing to offer but a convenient target, then you were dead.
 
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