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X ` Man

On 10/1/11 8:31 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:17:37 -0400, X `
wrote:

...according to the American Library Assn: 1) And Tango Makes Three,
by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson; 2) The Absolutely True Diary of
a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie; 3) Brave New World, by Aldous
Huxley; 4) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins; 5) The Hunger Games, by Suzanne
Collins; 6) Lush, by Natasha Friend; 7) What My Mother Doesn't Know, by
Sonya Sones; 8) Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich; 9)
Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie; 10) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

Brave New World? wow.
Twilight? hehehe.

Not hard to imagine who is behind book banning.

Brave new world is the only one I read. I can see why some people
think it is scandalous. Sex, drugs, test tube babies and questioning
god.
I am sure Falwell can get 1000 letters with one tirade on TV.

Personally I think the whole idea of banning books is silly. I would
have never read the Tropic if Cancer if it had not been banned and I
don't think I actually finished it. Once you got past the George
Carlin "7 word" rant on page 5 it really started dragging on and I
started not to care about these people's miserable lives.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Falwell propped up and whining about
these books. Of course, he's been dead for four years but that wouldn't
matter to his audience, which has been brain-dead for decades.

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