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Sat Night Book Discussion

Posted by Prongs • 8/01/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: book burning, books, censorship, discussion, review

Hey folks. Any one interested in getting into a nice Sat Night Book Discussion? What would a good topic be? How about Banned books. How do you feel about censorship? Modern day book burnings? Any books on a banned list that you just couldn't live with out? Let's chat it out folks!

www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/22/wisconsin.book.row/index.html

(That is a link about a recent book burning)

User Comments

8/01/09

Stillthinking

Sometimes, I am so embarrassed to live in the same country as these people.

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1. 8/01/09
  
  Prongs
  
  Tell me about it. It hurts my heart to read something like that. I think we are going to enter a 'banned books' challenge on the blog. Is it also weird that 90% of the books that I read are already on these lists? By banned they just mean good apparently.
2. 8/01/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  These people constantly talk about community standards and family values. They want literature from "ex-gays" and want creationism included in scientific textbooks.
  
  It just kills me.
  
  Can we talk about something happier? It's been such a serious week here on BC and I would rather take our favorite books and create fantasy movie casts.
3. 8/01/09
  
  Prongs
  
  Ha your right that is a seriously depressing topic. But it helps to know that there are obviously hose out there who love new ideas and appreciate great literature enough to know that what this small margin of people are doing is wrong.
  
  And great idea. I will have to think on it for a minute
8/01/09

MadameX

Your topic prompted me to finally write a blog post that's been bouncing around in my head for weeks, about the way new technology will make the next wave of book "burning" easier, more efficient, and frighteningly thorough: whatswrongaroundus.blogspot.com/2009/08/book-burning-for-21st-century-and.h...

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1. 8/02/09
  
  Prongs
  
  glad you were inspired! can't wait to read your post.
8/01/09

Anok

I feel that censorship has a very limited use in society, and should by all means be enforced through self discipline. Of course understanding that that isn't going to happen - anything that is not written specifically to incite violence or defame others is perfectly fine in my...uh...book.

If you don't like it, don't read it is my motto.

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8/01/09

libdrone

and here this Saturday night I am trying to write a book review and struggling with Amazon which keeps timing out, getting frustrated and asking myself 'WHY exactly do I do this' again....

sighs tiredly

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1. 8/01/09
  
  Anok
  
  *Pats Libdrone on the back and hand shim a hot cuppa joe*
2. 8/02/09
  
  libdrone
  
  thanks anok. i do feel a bit better now
3. 8/02/09
  
  Anok
  
  Did you notice my weak attempt at a Sean Connery impression, too?
8/02/09

fullet

There's a campaign to support the right to free speech online. I joined some weeks ago after visiting a blog from Zimbabwe. It's called Blue Ribbon Campaign:

w2.eff.org/br/

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