no longer used by polite people but probably would have been used by people
of that time... but what's the objection to Slaughterhouse Five, anyone
know?? Seems like a book for our times. Or is it too anti-television??
Dana
C. Hatton Humphrey writes:
> Nothing new here� schools throughout the US have tried at various times to
> ban various books from their libraries under the auspices that they are
> sending the wrong message or promoting questionable lifestyles to children.
>
> ACLU�s top 100 banned books (links to a PDF)
> http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=13676&c=83
> <http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=13676&c=83>
>
> St. Charles Public Library � Banned Book Week
> http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/arl/arl_banned.htm
>
> Has lists of the books banned in different years. Here�s a few I thought
> would turn heads:
> The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
> The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
> The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
> Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
> The Color Purple Alice Walker
> The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
> A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
> The Call of the Wild - Jack London
>
> Interesting what people think will harm our children, eh?
>
> Until Later!
> Hatton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:29 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Texas High School may ban Huxley and Heinlein...
>
> ...you know, for the CHILDREN
>
> http://www.themonitor.com/NewsPub/News/Stories/2003/09/22/10642896312.shtml
>
> Heaven forbid a high school student, subject to "inappropriate sexual
> arousal" be exposed to Brave New World or Stranger in a Strange Land.
> If the concerned (read: negligent) parents feel these two excellent
> books are simlpy pornographic, I might suggest we take up a collection
> to send them a copy of this:
>
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?I30A21EF5
>
> - Jim
>
>
>
>
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