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#1 Sep 24 2014 at 6:44 AM Rating: Good
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The American Library Association tracks which books receive the most complaints and requests for censorship. Each year, during banned book week, they publish a list of those most challenged books from the previous year.

I'm almost embarrassed to report I've only read one of them - Hunger Games. I dl'ed the free beginning bit from 50 Shades of Gray, but the story didn't even come close to parting me with $13.00.

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Out of 307 challenges as reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom

Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence

The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
Reasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit

Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Reasons: Drugs/alcohol/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit

Bone (series), by Jeff Smith
Reasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence


Censorship in this day and age seems like a moot point. You censor a book and it's only going to make people want to read it; And with the internet you can find it. Seems all the more important for schools, particularly, to focus less on censorship and more on critical thinking and processing of information.
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#2 Sep 24 2014 at 7:05 AM Rating: Good
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I'm all for banning Bless Me, Ultima! because that book bored the crap out of me.
#3 Sep 24 2014 at 7:13 AM Rating: Good
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50 Shades should be banned for being such a horrible book.

I can't imagine wtf they are talking about in Bone. I let Hannah read Bone when she was 8, there's nothing ban worthy in it.
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Is there a sub-ranking for how hot the sexually explicit parts are? I don't want to be wasting valuable time.
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#5 Sep 24 2014 at 9:37 AM Rating: Excellent
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Who do we complain to about people who are trying to keep us from our sexually explicit, violent, and offensive language indulgences?

Also how does a book get reported for nudity? Did they make boobs with parenthesis and periods? Illustrations? Because writing "he took a shower" doesn't really seem like something that's ban-worthy.
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#6 Sep 24 2014 at 9:41 AM Rating: Good
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someproteinguy wrote:
Also how does a book get reported for nudity? Did they make boobs with parenthesis and periods? Illustrations? Because writing "he took a shower" doesn't really seem like something that's ban-worthy.


If it's detailed enough that you can imagine it, then it's ban worthy. Gotta protect the children from those awful, awful thoughts.
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#7 Sep 24 2014 at 9:47 AM Rating: Excellent
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Gotta protect the children from those awful, awful thoughts.
There's gotta be a bad scifi movie or twelve in there.

Also, just because.
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someproteinguy wrote:
Who do we complain to about people who are trying to keep us from our sexually explicit, violent, and offensive language indulgences?
Probably with a topless/naked protest and/or a GAY parade.



Fuck that stupid filter.

Edited, Sep 24th 2014 7:00pm by Aethien
#9 Sep 24 2014 at 11:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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That one is my favorite so far. Smiley: lol

Kinda hurts any legitimate conversation related to the topic though, i.e. the whole marriage thing. I suppose it's best that's all winding down a little here; at least we got it out of the way before the filter kicked in and made it appear that everyone has an awful potty mouth. Smiley: rolleyes

Edited, Sep 24th 2014 10:14am by someproteinguy
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#12 Sep 24 2014 at 12:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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We could talk about Mr. "I'm gay, get over it," but that one still needs a nutbag response or two to spice it up.
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#13 Sep 24 2014 at 1:21 PM Rating: Good
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I liked Bone.
#14 Sep 24 2014 at 1:51 PM Rating: Good
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You know I did read some Bone comic. Cant' remember where or why. Likely something my son left lying around.

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#15 Sep 28 2014 at 5:12 PM Rating: Excellent
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50 Shades should be banned for being such a horrible book.

I can't imagine wtf they are talking about in Bone. I let Hannah read Bone when she was 8, there's nothing ban worthy in it.



It has a *gasp* political viewpoint, Smash.

You're a bad father.
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#16 Sep 29 2014 at 7:34 PM Rating: Good
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

I happened to have just read this last week. (My excuse is that I go to a regular game night at a used bookstore, and feel obligated to occasionally buy something to support it, so I picked it up for a couple bucks).

Not that I agree with the banning, but I can see why it's on the banned list every year. It's not just that the teenage characters participate in behaviors like drugs, alcohol, and sex, but that they actually benefit from them. Well, they have some negative consequences too, but on the whole they have good experiences. But aside from that quirk, it doesn't offer much of interest for anyone over the age of 18.
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(My excuse is that I go to a regular game night at a used bookstore...)

Nerd!

What game?
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#18 Sep 29 2014 at 8:03 PM Rating: Good
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What game?

Various, e.g. Smallworld, Bang!, Resistance, Ticket to Ride, Munchkin, Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards, etc.
#19 Sep 29 2014 at 8:32 PM Rating: Decent
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Mean to comment on this last week, but got distracted. I have a bit of an issue calling this a "banned book list". The books aren't banned so much as ones that aren't stocked in a library. If you look at the methodology of the list, it's not quite what one might assume. It's completely passive. Someone basically has to complain to them about someone else complaining about a book and asking it to be removed (or request a book be added and have the request denied, and then complain to the site, which really creates the potential for pushing the list). It's not surprising how many are "classics" (or at least well known) because libraries only have so much shelf space. When they don't stock some obscure crappy sci-fi book (or refuse to stock it), no one calls it censorship, just a need to stock the shelves based on which books will move. Obviously, people are going to request well known titles more often than less well known ones.

I'll also point out that the list includes both public and school libraries. Given the frequency that the "age inappropriate" reason appears in the list, we're probably dealing mostly with books that do have more adult content than maybe is appropriate for a school library. So basically, someone gets their balls in a twist because the local K-5 grade school library doesn't keep a copy of "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and when told they wont stock it because it's age inappropriate, sends it in to this list as a "banned book" (or, I suppose, some nutty librarian puts said book on the shelves for the grade school kids to read and some parents complain about it). Which, again, likely isn't what people think is happening when they think of books being banned.
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#20 Sep 29 2014 at 8:51 PM Rating: Good
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Nobody here was unaware of any of this.
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Nobody here was unaware of any of this.


Gbaji should be forced to change his signature to this. To save time.
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#22 Sep 30 2014 at 6:28 AM Rating: Good
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The more you know. Smiley: schooled
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#23 Sep 30 2014 at 6:59 AM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
Mean to comment on this last week, but got distracted. I have a bit of an issue calling this a "banned book list".

If you read the op and/or the link you'll notice that the list is not called a banned book list. It's a 'challenged' book list. It just happens to be published during banned book week.

Which is not really a week in which books are banned. So there is that.
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#24 Sep 30 2014 at 9:32 AM Rating: Excellent
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Elinda wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Mean to comment on this last week, but got distracted. I have a bit of an issue calling this a "banned book list".

If you read the op and/or the link you'll notice that the list is not called a banned book list. It's a 'challenged' book list. It just happens to be published during banned book week.

Which is not really a week in which books are banned. So there is that.
Next you'll tell me it's really only 4 days long. Is there no end to the lies? Smiley: disappointed
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Elinda wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Mean to comment on this last week, but got distracted. I have a bit of an issue calling this a "banned book list".

If you read the op and/or the link you'll notice that the list is not called a banned book list. It's a 'challenged' book list. It just happens to be published during banned book week.

Which is not really a week in which books are banned. So there is that.


And yet, they still call it "banned book week". Can we agree they do this precisely because "banned books" gets more attention than "challenged books"?
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