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I think it easy to see why Religous, Parent or School groups could have a problem with Catcher In The Rye.

 

The character of Holden. He's quite the little bastard and I can see why groups would have problems with younger children having access to it.

 

I don't agree with the mindset, but it all goes back to the thinking of "won't someone think of the children".

I'm sorry, I couldn't stand Catcher in the Rye, I didn't sympathize with Holden, I didn't identify with him, all I thought was "man, what a whiney little bitch".

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Guest Choken One
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That's another good thing about CITR, It can create Holden as a Egocentric asshole...

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Look a little deeper and things will get a bit clearer. I don't think the list of banned book is as interesting as this list which gives where (specifically) these books were challenged. Seventy-one percent of the challenges were to material in schools or school libraries. Another twenty-four percent were to material in public libraries. Schools and school libraries make sense...but public libraries are a different story.

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Look a little deeper and things will get a bit clearer. I don't think the list of banned book is as interesting as this list which gives where (specifically) these books were challenged. Seventy-one percent of the challenges were to material in schools or school libraries. Another twenty-four percent were to material in public libraries. Schools and school libraries make sense...but public libraries are a different story.

Public libraries? That's fucked up. There shouldn't even be attempts to censor public libraries.

 

If every book that was offensive to someone in some way was removed from a public library, you'd end up with an empty room.

Guest Anglesault
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The Giver and The Outsiders are two ofthe best books I've ever read.

 

Flowers for Algernon was very, very good as well.

Guest Harry Hood
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Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard

Blubber by Judy Blume

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Cujo by Stephen King

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

seems to me like i'm pretty bannable myself.

 

and i'm disappointed that there are no chuck palahniuk's (sp) books on the list. Lullaby alone would fuck up some major kids, not to mention fight club and choke

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I think it easy to see why Religous, Parent or School groups could have a problem with Catcher In The Rye.

 

The character of Holden. He's quite the little bastard and I can see why groups would have problems with younger children having access to it.

 

I don't agree with the mindset, but it all goes back to the thinking of "won't someone think of the children".

I'm sorry, I couldn't stand Catcher in the Rye, I didn't sympathize with Holden, I didn't identify with him, all I thought was "man, what a whiney little bitch".

Holden's hypocrisy, combined with his extreme denial, prevented me from seeing him as a role model, though I did sympathize with him at points.

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Why are there Stephen King books on the list? Yeah, Cujo is fairly violent, but hell, King is softcore as far as horror writers go. Check out some Bentley Little for more truly graphic, disturbing shit. Why would King be banned from anywhere?

 

Also, The Witches? Tha hell? They can't even argue that it's trying to preach occultism, since the witches are all villains in that one. Hmmm... maybe a wiccans' rights group complained.

Guest El Satanico
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I think it easy to see why Religous, Parent or School groups could have a problem with Catcher In The Rye.

 

The character of Holden. He's quite the little bastard and I can see why groups would have problems with younger children having access to it.

 

I don't agree with the mindset, but it all goes back to the thinking of "won't someone think of the children".

I'm sorry, I couldn't stand Catcher in the Rye, I didn't sympathize with Holden, I didn't identify with him, all I thought was "man, what a whiney little bitch".

Holden's hypocrisy, combined with his extreme denial, prevented me from seeing him as a role model, though I did sympathize with him at points.

Well, I liked the book and I saw alot of myself in the character of Holden.

 

I read Catcher In The Rye a few years after I graduated High School. So, I wasn't one of those "angry middle/high school kids who identifies with Holden" types which are most often associated with people who liked the character of Holden. I guess I'm just an unashamed prick.

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Seeing how PC groups and religious fundamentalists are being blamed for this, I just want to ask a question. If being politically correct is part of libertarianism, then shouldn't they also oppose censorship? I don't understand that.

Guest Choken One
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Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard

Blubber by Judy Blume

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Cujo by Stephen King

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

seems to me like i'm pretty bannable myself.

 

and i'm disappointed that there are no chuck palahniuk's (sp) books on the list. Lullaby alone would fuck up some major kids, not to mention fight club and choke

too recent and they weren't big huge books like Potter was...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Cujo by Stephen King

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Private Parts by Howard Stern

Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

I readed 15 books on that list. I feel highly edumacated right now.

 

-And it's ridiculous that there are even talks about getting some of these books banned. Even looking past the fact that this is censorship and - in America - censorship is more often than not a bad thing.....some of these books are about 50 years old, and possibly a little older. Why are there still discussions about banning them ? If it hasn't happened by now, it's pretty much not going to happen, so the case should be fucking closed by now.

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some of these books are about 50 years old, and possibly a little older. Why are there still discussions about banning them ?

Simple. Some people are stubborn, persistent bitches in getting what they want.

 

Anywho, only 8 read books for me because I'm illiterate.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

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Why bother banning half of these books when you can just go out and rent the movie instead? And I read a good 2/3's of these books when I was a kid, and most of them on the list are ridiculous. Fucking uptight assholes...

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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Witches by Roald Dahl

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford

 

FUCK THEM UP THERE STUPID ASSES FOR BANNINGS THESE BOOKS.

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