Banned Books week!
Sep. 29th, 2005 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
Of course, everybody is posting the list, and inviting discussion.
And most discussion is along the lines of "BOOK? But that's my favorite book! What could they possibly have against BOOK?"
This is where I pipe up and list all the things the sillies have against BOOK, whatever book BOOK happens to be. Just to interject a little, sometimes the sillies' complaints aren't totally silly - when people say, for example, that a Roald Dahl book is too violent for their precious child to read, I can only nod and go "yup, it's a bit violent", because they do tend that way. I don't consider that a reason to keep a child from reading it, certainly not children other than your own, but I will agree with the premise that the book is violent.
But is it scary that I can recite the reasons against most of these poor books?
Incidentally, I rather wish there were divided lists - children's books and non children's books (normal fiction would fall into that category because that's likely to be read in high school, and most censorship efforts focus on the precious children anyway) just so the likely reasoning could be compared. Some books might be on both lists.
And most discussion is along the lines of "BOOK? But that's my favorite book! What could they possibly have against BOOK?"
This is where I pipe up and list all the things the sillies have against BOOK, whatever book BOOK happens to be. Just to interject a little, sometimes the sillies' complaints aren't totally silly - when people say, for example, that a Roald Dahl book is too violent for their precious child to read, I can only nod and go "yup, it's a bit violent", because they do tend that way. I don't consider that a reason to keep a child from reading it, certainly not children other than your own, but I will agree with the premise that the book is violent.
But is it scary that I can recite the reasons against most of these poor books?
Incidentally, I rather wish there were divided lists - children's books and non children's books (normal fiction would fall into that category because that's likely to be read in high school, and most censorship efforts focus on the precious children anyway) just so the likely reasoning could be compared. Some books might be on both lists.
