Banned Books

Just out of curiosity, are there any books banned in the USA at present? Do they do that any more?

 

Not banned but Clockwork Orange is on a watch list

 

Like 30 years later?!

 

There have never been books officially "banned" in the USA to my knowledge; unless you consider the possession of books/magazines with child porn being illegal a "ban" ? Churches and other groups have tauted about books that they claim needed to be banned, but nothing has been banned that I know of, and should not be either.

 

The Anarchist's Cookbook should be (if it isn't already).

Doc...remember the recipe for disaster?

 

I was thinking more political, religious or maybe scientific.

 

Ummm..... cold tires and a wet road?

 

I had a copy of that in college that I used for research when writing a paper in a Philosophy of Violence class I took. It has some neat things in it that I tried out...like how you can make a silencer out of a two liter plastic coke bottle...it does work.

 

I had that book, I left it in the guest bathroom for good reading for my guests. My favorite was when my in-laws came into town for the first time. Ohh the memories!

 

Was Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" ever banned in the US?

 

I saw that movie at a friends house, very weird. Do you know the car they were driving at th beginning, I cant remember.

 

A co-worker was telling me that internet purchase or "search" is a guaranteed flag with the FBI's snoop software. I don't know if he was feeding me a line of bull, but I wouldn't entirely dismiss that fact. Though, I've seen this book readily available at gun shows.

 

I have a good friend who was in the Marines. He claims that during his top secret clearance background check he was asked why he purchased the book years earlier!

 

Not entirely true. It depends on where you live in the good old US of A.

As my GF is in Grad School for Library Science (yes your Librarian usually has a Masters Deg) there are many School districts / areas that do ban books.

Every year the ALA has a Banned Books Week where they encourage people to challenge themselves and read a banned book.
American Library Association Banned Books Week info.

Challenged and Banned books in the US

Book Burning (even today in the US of A)

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The Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books (ie to be banned) of 1990–2000
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

 

Your friend mentioned to you what was duscussed during his "Top Secret Clearance" check??

 

Maybe in their particular school library, but not in book stores, ect...

 

Local schools can challanged/ ban books. Most books are banned under a couple categories sexual explicit content, religion, racism and theres a couple more but I cant find my list. Im currently a sophmore in high school and studying this in literature. 6,364 books were challanged in 2004 which may be the same book but more then one school has challanged it

 

Funny you should bring this up because one of my senior year elective english classes is Censorship in Literature. Tonight I have to finish up Harry Potter and we start Requiem for a Dream on Thursday. I wish i could tell you more, but we just started and havent really gotten into it just yet. Other books we are planning to read are Trainspotting, Fight Club, Zero Below, Clockwork Orange, and as i said above Requim for a dream.

 

I say they ban, "There's a wocket in my pocket" by Dr.Seuss. If that doesn't send up signals of inappropriate material, i dont know what is

 

No "Catcher in the Rye"?

 

that should be banned. one of the worst pieces of crap ever assigned to me. 200+- pages of a kid whining

 

That's only number 57 on the list of Challenged books:
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
58. Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Apparently Gay relations, Sex (of any kind) and Occult are a much bigger threat.

 

Maybe you should read it again... I think you might be missing something. It's not a Tom Clancy novel, you have to read between the lines.

 

I read the book when it first came out - but damned if I can remember what sort of car Alex and the boys motored about in. The film used a Morris Minor, and I recall the odd flash of disappointment when it came across the screen, but beyond that it’s a blank. Sorry.

 

No never. the story is. Boy hates school. Boy gets in trouble at school. Boy whines about the people at the school. Boy leaves school. Boy complains to old dying dude about the peope at school. Boy gets on train. Boy talks to mom of a kid at school. Boy thinks about how annoying kid is at school but doesnt say anything. Boy goes to NY. Boy complains about crap in NY. Boy gets crap beating outta him by pimp (only part worth reading). Boy complains about more crap. Boy goes to bar. Boy complains about how stupid people are and stuff. Boy complains about the bar. Boy goes to visit his sister. Boy complains about stuff written on the wall at the school. Boy goes to mental hospital. THE END.