Thursday Thirteen #106
Thursday
ThirteenThirteen Of the 100 Most Banned/Burned Books Of the Last Century Which I've Read and Believe My Life Would Have Been Diminished Without Them
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- 1984, George Orwell
- The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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7 tell me a story:
Did someone try to ban LOTR?
I've read 5 off that list. I am utterly opposed to banning any book, under any circumstances. No one should be able to tell anyone else how to think.
Nicholas: re LOTR--the link to the list I used is the title of my list but her is a direct quote on the entry for LOTR:
Burned in Alamagordo, N. Mex. (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic. Source: Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, Mar. 2002, p. 61.
I really can't believe these books were banned...it amkes me feel a combination of fear and sadness. It also reminds me of the amazing novel (and movie) Farenheit 451. I don't even understand how 11 and 13 ccould be banned! And oddly...I too have read all of these books.
Interesting list. I had no idea many of those were banned. To Kill a Mockingbird? Oh please, every American should read that one!!
I can't believe they would ever ban a book! I have read several on your list and they are amazing. Mine is up at A Daily Dose
Toni
A Daily Dose of Toni
MomDot
Most of those are must reads! How sad what wonders we could miss out on if banning books were common place.
Gone with the wind was banned ???
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