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#81294 09/21/02 11:03 AM
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The annual "celebration," sponsored by the American Library Association, begins today.

My favorite banned book has gotta be the AHD. What's yours?

http://www.ala.org/news/v8n12/freedomread.html


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The list I looked at didn't include AHD--and that would have been my favorite banned book, too. I took a look at the 1990-2000 list--lots of children's books and some Stephen King among others.

I suppose my favorite on that list is Huckleberry Finn. Blissful memory of having read it one spring, mint julep in my hand throughout many pages, by an iris bed in a garden where Poe once lived.

But How to Eat Fried Worms?? On the list? Why?


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list I looked at didn't include AHD

It's on the T shirt. Where do we complain about favorite books left off the list?


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Here's one reference to the AHD:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/bookstore/banned.html ... Looks like it (3rd ed.) was only "challenged."


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ditto the MWCD..


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How about banning the Bible - think of all the filthy stuff in it:murders, rapes, incest
not fit for any child to read.


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When I hear about books being banned I wonder: Do these people ever go to the movies? If they did, I reckon they'd happily crawl back to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield. These kids are a whole lot more wholesome than those preverts up on the screen.


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Where's Waldo??

Voted most likely to teach kids how to stare blankly.


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In reply to:

These kids are a whole lot more wholesome than those preverts up on the screen.


OK. Prevert. Is a prevert a young'un? Like an early metamorphical state of a pervert-to-be?


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