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- The American banned list reveals a society with serious hang-ups - Times...
- Jun 11, 1:01pm (11 reviews) books, usa, idiots, concepts, funnies http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/t...
- Land of the free? Heh.
'The American banned list reveals a society with serious hang-ups'
"Next week is Banned Books Week in the US, when the American Library Association lists all the books that, over the previous year, people have attempted to remove from the shelves of libraries, schools and universities. This makes for sobering reading: the top ten most opposed authors in the US include J. K.Rowling (for promoting witchcraft), John Steinbeck (bad language), Maya Angelou (for sexual explicitness) and Stephen King (for being scary). In the list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of the past decade, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn comes in at No 5 (use of the word "nigger"), J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye at 13 (profanity, sexual references) and Alice Walker's The Color Purple at No 18 (inappropriate language, sex). Astonishingly, Brett Easton Ellis's serial-killing saga American Psycho (a book that possibly merits banning for adjective abuse) comes romping in at No 60.
Some of the recent attempts at censorship would be hilarious if they were not so chilling. Eureka, Illinois, removed Chaucer from its high school literature course on the grounds of sexual content. Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach was removed from some classrooms in Virginia because it promoted disobedience towards authority figures. Delightfully, Twelfth Night fell foul of the school board in Merrimack, New Hampshire, where the Bard stood accused of promoting an "alternative lifestyle", with all that disgusting cross-dressing. But perhaps the most remarkable act of censorious foolishness came a few years ago when four members of the Alabama State Textbook Committee called for the rejection of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl on the basis that it was "a real downer".
The American list of opposed books reveals a society still struggling with major hang-ups about sex, race, religion and Holocaust victims who are insufficiently jolly."
- 100 Must-Read Books: The Essential Man's Library | The Art of Manliness...
- May 21, 10:03pm
 (63 reviews) books http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100...
- Americas BookShelf, The Worlds Largest Book Club, Is A Book Exchange Club...
- Aug 29, 2007 3:52am (1 review) literature, books, usa, reading, literatures http://www.americasbookshelf.com/
- Book service a la Netflix - US only. Could be a good idea for some.
"America's BookShelf is the Internet's first full-service book club that supports a community of readers just like you. Our motto, "Read, Share and Receive" not only illustrates how our system works but also follows our environmental business philosophy of renewable energy practices (you can help save trees and the environment by sharing and exchanging books)."
- BookMooch: exchange books and trade them, like a book swap or book barter...
- Aug 29, 2007 3:48am (346 reviews) books http://bookmooch.com/
- http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/
- Aug 6, 2007 2:48pm (228 reviews) books, tools, reading, useful, favorites http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/
- This seems like a good idea. I'm assuming it uses similar methods as Amazon. From the page: Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers' favourite books (over 32,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next. (You can register on the results page and build your own favourites list)
- What Should I Read Next?
- Aug 6, 2007 2:47pm (1 review) books http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/books...
- Amazon.de: So bin ich eben! Erkenne dich selbst und andere: B&cher: Stefanie...
- Jul 15, 2007 9:49pm (1 review) psychology, books, german, what-to-buy, auf-deutsch http://www.amazon.de/eben-Erkenne-dich-s...
- Das einzige gut bewertete deutsche Buch zum Thema Myers-Briggs/MBTI. Kauf fuer M & D.
- Insight Guides: Part of the Langenscheidt Publishing Group
- Apr 29, 2007 5:42pm (1 review) photography, travel, books, holidays, vacation http://www.insighttravelguides.com/catal...
- One of the best travel guide series available in the USA - similar to DuPont guides in Europe. Very informative, practical. Also featuring not-so-common articles on different topics for each culture, as well as great images. Recommended.
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