Books

[fairyrune]

Reading the banned books list makes me want to cry. Books should never be banned. Ever.

Comments

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

well. i don't know. i don't think anyone ever needs to read bill clinton's book. heh.

but yar. i know what you mean. it's bloody retarded. and the "reasoning" behind some of the bannings is ridiculous.

[fairyrune]

You don't like a book? Fine. Don't read it. Just don't tell other people that they're not allowed to do so.

[synnoveaevael.livejournal.com]

werd.

[makiieris.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you... a ton of these books made up my freakin' childhood in reading

[fairyrune]

Word.

[featherspy.livejournal.com]

You know in your heart that that is not true.

The Olsen Twin Books.

Babysitter's Club.

Books that probably have killed the braincells of 70% of the current adult population.

[fairyrune]

Great literature it's not, but if it gets kids to read, then I'm all for it. Reading fluff is better than not reading at all.

[madmage01.livejournal.com]

Remember that GAWD and Jeebus will not love you anymore if you read these evil satan-worshipping books!

[fairyrune]

Because "Where the Wild Things Are" is debil-worship!

[madmage01.livejournal.com]

INDEED! DO NOT READ THIS BOOK OR TEH TERRISTS WIN!

[fairyrune]

Did you see the guy dressed up as a Wild Thing at faire that one day?

[madmage01.livejournal.com]

no, i couldnt get down there fast enuff to see... :(

[fairyrune]

It was hillarious and confusing at the same time.

[undergreenlight.livejournal.com]

I went on a rampage at a book store one day and bought like six books that used to be on the banned books list like To Kill a Mockingbird (one of my fav books) The Giver and Black Like Me. Personally I think its amazing how ignorant some people can be. What books are you talking about?

[fairyrune]

ALL of them. No book should ever be banned, no matter how outrageous, offensive, or downright stupid.

[featherspy.livejournal.com]

LOLZ NEGROES CANNOT READ OR WRITE

[mikoroshi.livejournal.com]

0_o

:poke:

Everyone please excuse the girlfriend. She is in an odd mood recently.

[picoland.livejournal.com]

omgwtfpwnedbbqsauce

hehe...

what about Band Books?

[paleshadow.livejournal.com]

Word. It's always (well, usually) been about the children, but anyone who's really thinking of the children should allow, no, encourage them, to read anything they can.

But I think we're a choir here. :D

-D.

[fairyrune]

I hear the stories my mother, a middle school science teacher, tells, and I fear for the future of our world.

Children are not being encouraged to improve their minds, to imagine, to THINK. It scares me.

"O brave new world, that has such people in't!"

[paleshadow.livejournal.com]

At the risk of being overly cynical, we have created a society which needs more bodies to sustain itself than it does minds.

I would prefer that as many children be as intellectually encouraged as is possible, but if the majority of parents and children would prefer otherwise (there is a limit to how effective encouragement can be), then it might be better to stick to nurturing, and eventually simply staying out of the way of, the ones that choose to improve, imagine, and think regardless of the school environment. Not everybody can or even wants to be an Alpha.

There's certainly enough for the rest of humanity to do. It's a staggering waste of potential, to be sure, but that would seem to be coming regardless.

-D.

Re: "O brave new world, that has such people in't!"

[fairyrune]

Yes, but these kids have no idea how to think or even really do anything for themselves. The parents are enablers. It's scary.

[devyn410.livejournal.com]

Is there a list that I'm not aware of?

[fairyrune]

It's banned books week. The list is somewhere on Yahoo, I think.

[lachlan.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter is fiction. Thats silly. If folks don't want their kids to read a book, then they shouldn't let their kids read a book. Folks will let their kids watch any bloody thing on tv but get in an uproar over a book(s). *sigh* Craziness.