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What books should be banned from libraries?
Posted by F4wrdthnkndad • 10/07/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: banned books, children and reading., children's books, family, Parents
My son came home with a list of books the librarian told him were banned in many public libraries. While I'm not supportive of banning books from libraries, I was appalled to hear that "Walter, the farting Dog," is on the banned list. Is a book about a farting dog really that offensive? Even if it is, is that reason enough to stop a kid from reading it?
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Given that wonderful books like "To Kill A Mockingbird" were once banned, I get kind of worked up when I hear access to books is being limited-- even to Farting Dogs.
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At least he didn't come home with a copy of "Walter Learns To Queef" although should such a publication exist, I'll buy a dozen. -
None. The only things that should be banned from libraries are flashers and censorship. And I'm not so sure about the flashers.-
Absolutely NO FLASHERS!!! But I have no problem with the occasional streaker through the fiction section.
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Actually, I'm for complete nudity in the library.
But that's just me. -
Wouldn't bother me.
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Since starting this discussion, I have learned that the "Captain Underpants" series by Dav Pilkey has been banned in some libraries. Banning books seems pointless because there are enough lousy books that will never get read with or without a ban. Now if they ban "Tropic of Cancer," then I'm just going to stop going to the library.
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Not a one. It is our right to read what we want. I found Lolita on line PDF and you cant get it here in the US. It is not that bad I mean there are not real details or anything. It is a sad excuse for a book but I wondered why it was banned and had to read it.-
You can't get Lolita here in the US anymore? I'd had to read it for a college English studies class in college in the early 90s, and we'd gotten it from the school book store.
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Nonsense. There are two editions of Lolita available on Amazon.com, and three plus the book on tape at Barnes and Noble. -
you can totally get it in the US. it's one of my favorite books! i read mine so much that it fell apart and JUST picked a new copy up a couple days ago... -
I guess I should say libraries and it was banned from the united states for quite a while after it was written.
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It must depend on the area--they have it at my library, and did back when I was in high school in the mid-80s.
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The great thing is looks like you son can see the film instead see www.moviefone.com/movie/walter-the-farting-dog/1420521/main.
I thought we were trying to encourage kids to read more and watch less TV. -
It should be up to the parents to decide whether to let their children read this or that book. But, they should all be in libraries.
Now, banning books from an entire country is absolutely ridiculous! Where does that leave the freedom of speech of the author and the freedom to read whatever we want as adults? -
Anything written by Ann Coulter! -
I'm against banning generally. I don't think it would be appropraite to have sexual magazines in the library and maybe books with heavy sexual content should be marked as such, but it is a free country and you don't want to suppress that no matter how much you personally object to the material. -
Not a single book (but some book need disclaimers, or a category change
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Why do people think America should live in a glass house? -
I'm going to have to agree with the vast majority of people on this post and say no literature should be censored. Admittedly, certain books should be marked in 'adult' sections so kids can't get hold of them, but it seems like a such a travesty that some writers pour hours into their work, only so the public aren't even allowed to consider reading it.
I'm sure people are more than capable of deciding what they do and don't want to read all by themselves.
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Who cares about the writer and his or her personal feelings? It's about the information and the needs of the society to have access to it. Once you begin to ban SOME books you don't like, ALL literature is endangered.
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All of them. They do nothing but corrupt our brains-
Books shouldn't be banned. We should just have the good sense not to read them.
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We should burn the books! Or give them to homeless people so they can have a fire
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Or burn the books and put homeless people on the fire.
Can't go wrong with a classic hobo bbq. -
@dbowles1017
Can't you demons provide fire to the homeless without burning books? I mean, there should be enough fire in Hell to give some to everyone, shouldn't there? Or has it frozen over?
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Only ban books about how to ban books!-
Get out of my head! Censorship all too often is a cover for the moral police who believe they truly know what's best for us more than we do ourselves. SCF - Admire the concise truth
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No books should ever be banned. Let people make up their own minds about a book... -
It depends on the books, books that incentive nazism, or other type of book that threat our way of life should be banned! -
nothing! and really, as terrible as it might sound, even people with... shall i say "unusual" opinions are entitled to those opinions... if we start banning books, we're no better than they are...
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The fact that there is such a list is highly offensive to me. What are we in nazi germany. Do we need the government controlling what we watch, read and say. It is funny, I use the library frequently and I have been frustrated that I am unable to find a lot of the type books I would like to read. Who knows maybe the last one "Mastering the Rockefeller Habits" is too controversial. Ha! Anyhow this is very upsetting that a public library would blacklist any book. It is a sad day in this book readers life. -
No book should ever be banned. Although, Wuthering Heights really tempts me to change my mind. Dang that was a boring read.
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Banning physical books is so “old school”. The real question is should we censor the Internet? Can blogs be dangerous? Do we need a blog police? Actually, if I were in charge I’d ban splogs. The punishment would be to cattle prod sploggers until they quit putting crap in my blog’s comment waiting box for me to delete. -
No books should be banned. This is a free country isnt it?? People are free to think for themselves aren't they?? Who is anyone to judge and say what I can or can not read??? -
It seems like there is a general consensus that books should not be banned in libraries. I find it interesting that so many people can come together around an issue like this, yet I'm pretty sure there would be some nasty fights in a library if one was reading about abortions while the lady next to her was reading What to expect when you're expecting; another reading a bound version of porn magazines next to the guy reading the bible;, another reading about sarah palin next to someone reading about healthcare reform.
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That is precisely the point of freedom of speech.
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