Tomorrow is the end of Banned Books week. We have a collection of banned and challenged books that you can find at archive.org. We currently have 74 that can be found on banned and challenged books lists around the internet.
OK, who would have guessed that a Junie B. Jones book would be on one of the lists.
And here are some great graphs.
My daughter loves Junie B. I’m going to start that one tonight with her.
-Jeff Kaplan
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Sorry to get in late, got a few, appreciate so many of the unseen things you do to make OUR Internet so fluid.
JPB
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Respected Sirs/Madam,
I have been doing research on the Poetry of Pulitzer Prize Winner American poet Mark Strand who is presently teaching at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Will you please send me all or any Poetry anthology written by Mark Strand. His books are published by Atheneum and Macmillan. I don’t know other names of his publishers. I haven’t got any reply from these publishers, that is why I am asking you. Please help me by sending his publications in PDF or DOC format.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Dr. Dilip Bhatt (Ph. D.)
Thanks, interesting to find out why they were banned.
Almost anything that can be construed as anti semetic whether its true or not is usually banned.
Veri nice…
no book should ever be banned, our duty is to educate so all books can be understood
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Sorry, I disagree with you. Some books are not worthy of anyone reading them, much less to an uneducated mind.
I’m looking for a copy of “The Plan For Permanent Peace”
Irony: the most banned book in America is also the best selling book of all time. The Bible. Try to read that in the Public Schools, and yet out sells every book in the world. Portions of this book are actually being removed from government buildings and great expense yet more people own this book than any other. It out sells Harry Potter yet never appears on the NY Times best seller list. Just Sayin’
The Bible is also the most stolen book according to Barnes and Noble.
Hope it does the thief some good.
We don’t cuddle up to nor do we as Americans support with public funds any religious tracts, pamphlets, bibles, qurans and torahs, home-grown screeds, religious commentary, books of mormon, bound sermons, witness testimonies, baptist hymnals, and seventh-day adventist or any other prophetic scratching.
Just because an item sells well is the least consideration for our admiration or enthusiasm—the Ford Motor Company once sold thousands of Pintos, despite the fact that Ford well knew any Pinto car was a mobile bomb. Saying the bible sells well is akin to suggesting that Jacqueline Susann was the finest authoress to have ever lived anywhere. Pure rubbish.
Never should we mistake popularity for value.
What a lovely , articulate reply to the previous inanity. Thank you.
(Never should we mistake popularity for value.)
Boy you said it all in one small line!
The most valued book by a tremendous amount and yet is the most unpopular book ever translated.
Many people, nations, and kings have tried and kill it and they despise it’s meaning and despise people who talk about and practice its treasures yet they can’t kill its value.
Bret, you are so right. People are so afraid of the Bible, that’s the only reason they ban it or distrust it.
Spoken like a true liberal. The Bible is the only book that should be read in the home with all family members around the dinner table.
exodus 21:20,21……..slavery okay. genesis 19:31,32…..incest necessary. deuteronomy 25:11,12…….mutilation lawful. numbers 31:17,18……genocide fun and practical. 2 kings 6:28,29…..cannibalism convenient. 1 timothy 2:11,12…..misogyny good. luke 19:27….vengeance christly. And so on…..why a TREMENDOUS, POPULAR, VALUED, TREASURE….obviously inspired by a superior being, would be banned…is beyond my feeble understanding.
As it is, freedom of expression, we see both sides of the fence. As it seperates, the fence is what defines the sides it creates. The Bible and it’s nature is not unlike the fence. To understand it in its nature is to understand why the fence was installed in the first place.