I agree

Wtf how dare they Lets banned them for doing such a thing

Agreed

I mean there is a countless number of other works of literature tht u can read and get the same experience, I don't agree but the reasons aren't absurd

It makes you wonder WHY the book is really being banned

My high school tracher read the part of Jim as it was wrtten broken english and bad pronunciation and all....made me feel very uneasy.

hypocrites everywhere

Huck Finn is one of the most anti bigotry books I ever read. Huck’s growing love and respect for Jim and his guilt over his relationship with a black man are beautiful.

Too true.

it also inspired the iconic apple add in 1984 promoting the macintosh computor.

If it's possible for both worlds to exist side by side with Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheit 451 somehow we've achieved it

I just know it as a meme that conservatives use when they get held accountable for saying the N-word or whatever, saying that X is Literally 1984 or whatever.

have you actually read 1984? because absolutely nothing in that book is 'more relevant'. you're either reaching your interpretation, or Orwell was writing exactly what was happening at the same time.

This is true.

It seems like it is all or nothing. There are definitely adult themed books that these people are putting in grade school. However, Novels like Huckleberry Finn, 1984, TO Kill A Mockingboard should definitely be read IN HIGHSCHOOL .

I thought it was the lion the witch, and the wardrobe that they accepted.

some school board members are blind to irony

If you actually knew about Tolkien’s life or just simply read The Silmarillion, then you know what they accepted it. Same with The Chronicles of Narnia.

@@gustyko8668 there probably are relegious fucks who rejected it purely for being fiction

Couldn’t care less, Harry Potter is piece of shit anyway

I think the only book which is rightfully banned is Mein Kampf from A. D., the rest I think the same as you

@@fieldy03 I've heard it's terribly written so maybe it should be banned for that reason

I’d like to nominate my favourite book series at the moment; “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. I have Autism and anxiety, in particular anxiety around reading that has stopped me from reading for a long time. Now, I’m reading “A Series of Unfortunate Events” again. So far, I’ve managed to finish all of book one, which is unheard of for me as of late.

@@victoriasalter1701 I adore that series

My grandfather (not the nicest of men, to put it mildly) had a copy of Mein Kampf which I started reading in my mid-teens. I was a voracious and ambitious reader and just thought it would be another part of my historical education. I abandoned it after maybe 50 pages because it was.... boring. SO freaking boring. Endless narcissism, turgid prose. I've never had a desire to pick it up since. I found it extraordinary that something so dense and dull could stir so many to passion of ANY kind. Go figure.

Lord of the flies ... I always felt that one was way to negative. ( but that's why it was made) Like the author believed that humans would automatically become crazy people if taken away from society. But looking at the time frame, it's pretty much what fan fic writers do to happy shows. ( always turn them dark and sad) /

You should check out The Clockwork Orange film, it’s amazing. Maybe even better than the book

I had to read "Of Mice and Men" in high school and I CANNOT understand what the hell is in there that would motivate someone to want to ban it

Didn't he also write Catch 22...another banned book? It's amazing to think of all the books banned for language. I'm protecting my Stephen King collection as I type this. (Stephen King's story entitled Rage is also banned and out of print due to its topic. I've got my copy!) I saw an extensive list of banned books...and choked when I saw books by Judy Blume on it! (Sorry, but I have no one to talk to about books here...LOL. )

And Catch 22 was Heller. Sorry for the mix up :)

I've heard the main reason was that it said Motherfucker too 😂

​@@kelleymaxwell3875I read rage, and it honestly just wasn't any good... Stephen King is a decent writer, fun to read, but he doesn't have much to say nor is he a literary talent; however, Rage is not one of his best books; actually, I'd say it's almost comically bad. Here's why I think it's bad: the use of language is uninteresting; the ending is weird, illogical, and badly written; the book has no actual insights into the characters it is about, unlike some of his other books... I do not think, however, that it should be banned. ... And, while typing, I noticed your comment is two years old...

My father went to see A Clockwork Orange and couldn't stop telling me how good a movie it was. Of course, he also gave me 1984 when I was 12 years old

I read that book last semester in my TAM class and the book is so gut-wrenching 💔

1984, brave new world, invitation to a beheading, and metropolis are inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Also brave new world

@@timmy18135 Kurt Vonnegut admitted that his Player Piano "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."

Catcher in the rye can really screw someone up however.

Required reading even! Some of the books listed were required reading when I was in school. I am also surprised Animal Farm wasn't on the list.

I'm not surprised.And I wouldn't be if some new ones ended up on a banned list. Cinderella~Foot mutilation.(They sliced toes off to fit in the slipper). Hansel And Gretel~Child abuse.(A witch tried to put two children in an oven.) And finally: Romeo And Juliet~Teen suicide of course. If there's anyone who has not read it I highly recommend S.E. Hinton's That Was Then,This Is Now.Two boys grew up as brothers but one is changing,getting highly moody,and the other one doesn't know why. It's a sequel to The Outsiders and it's awesome.And short.3 or 4 hour read.

Exactly, required reading when I was in school as well. Funny how now they’re a problem!

The woman who likely wrote Go Ask Alice was a hugely unethical therapist with some pretty questionable attitudes. Potentially a disgustingly exploitative and sensationalist person. The Wiki on the book does cover some of these issues if you are interested. I, personally, could no more read that book again than I could anything by JT LeRoy (that scam was so damn extensive and damaging). Pseudonyms are fine. Fraud and exploitation is not.

On Hoopla it's banned book week. I know it is in one county anyway.

So you want drugged milk?

Wasn't it basically milk with speed in it? That's how I always read it.

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 I thought it had morphine

@@heliocat3855 It had various drugs in it - vellocet was the drug of choice for Alex and his droogs because it sharpened them up for "ultra-violence". So I figured some derivative of speed (or maybe coke) seemed most likely. The milk was just a cover - milkbars were innocent places for teenagers to hang out when Burgess wrote the novel.

@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 To be honest, it's been almost 20 years since I read the book and I haven't watched the movie in about 5 so you could be correct.

More of the thought police works.

Yeah I remember reading mein kampf in elementary

@@markquinn262 Yepp

Apparently though there are some schools that have "trigger warnings" on the book

It was a setup. There weren't any females available to those males. If there were, there would've been no "gay" ones. Its a projection our social issues upon another species via anthropomorphizing animals. It's an inorganic and obvious propaganda piece for an agenda-driven purpose -- to force adult socio-seggsual beliefs on impressionable children before they reach the age of majority. It's classical "grooming". It is a well known and cynical ploy which the critical theorists deliberately planned and carried out. A book discussing topics which are age-appropriate is one thing. This is not that kind of book. Seggsual politics aren't appropriate for children. In the current era it has become obvious that this agenda has been a political ploy to destroy society by undermining social cohesion. I was once a dyed-in-the-wool Leftie. I was tolerant and accepting. I felt empathy for groups of people who didn't deserve their treatment. But my empathy and the empathy of others was merely a tool designed for the obliteration of the West. It was deliberate -- the planners wrote it down in excruciating detail and set it in motion with true believers which infiltrated the education system beginning in the 60s. This book is the direct offspring of that agenda. I once thought it was conspiracy theory but I only thought that because I was taught to believe it was a conspiracy theory. I'm no longer a naive young man. I no longer believe in this secular religion which has poisoned the foundations of freedom in every level of education. It has created at least 2 generations of trained ingrates who are now attacking every institution which sustains freedom and the values of the West. It's only saving grace, is that their successes will be short lived. The socialists of today are far stupider than those of the past. Those socialists still possessed education system which could produce proper engineers. Ours does not. If you can't produce engineers, then your control over society is unsustainable. If your citizens can't even judge simple cause and effect, you have no society, you have a loose arrangement of tribes which can't even keep the lights on. Tribes which live their lives through a madman's vision of a Utopia that never arrives but which requires the total destruction of freedom in any meaningful sense. That book was merely a symptom of a broader problem. I'm sure the writers may have meant well, but it was a manipulated circumstance from the start. It wasn't natural. It was imposed by humans upon captive animals that had no choice but to follow instincts which are beyond their knowledge or control. It was an act of cruelty rewritten to distort it into a virtue signaling propaganda piece with an agenda to groom children into believing that the situation is natural when it's not. It's pathological. To wit: when a penguin loses a chick, they'll often steal another chick from other penguins to replace it. In short order, they lose that paternal instinct for the alien chick and end up deleting that chick from life. Nobody wrote a short story about that natural behavior in penguins. They'd be as likely to terminate that chick as to raise it. When any story is using well known child manipulation techniques to drive an agenda which -- in no way -- could benefit the child in the present or future, its nothing more than religious indoctrination -- at best. At worst, it's grooming them -- politicially and seggsually. This tactic and its tacticians know exactly what they're doing and why. It has nothing to do with benefitting children, society, or humanity. It's a cynical political scheme which they loudly declared that they were going to deploy and then set about doing it over decades. They wrote about it and spoke about it everywhere as they were doing it. We can trace every modern tendril of this secular religious belief back to it's originators in an unbroken chain of influences. This is why I left the Left. When their actions belied an agenda which was socially corrosive, I could no longer aid and abet that crime against culture -- which will soon become crimes against humanity. I was once naive like many today. I once believed that they had the broader improvement mankind in mind. They don't. They sow divisions which are tearing the West apart. They don't want civil rights, they want civil revolutionaries. You can't get revolutionaries unless you destroy the societies in which people live. These people who invented C-R-T loathed civil rights as a direct threat to their power acquisition. They hate equality of opportunity because that keeps people of merit in positions that the woke want to occupy. The woke posses no merit -- which is why they want equality of outcome. That's just a synonym for "I'm incompetent or lazy but I'll still be rewarded as richly as those who actually deserve it by merit". Just look at how your economy has been run. Do you think we possess any leaders of merit? Least of all at the national level? They don't want a functioning economy because functioning economies produce growth and sustainable outcomes. You can't produce revolutionaries in good times. To create revolutionaries you must create the worst of times and then blame them on a scapegoat so you can pull down the present system of meritocracy and replace it with those who are without merit who will complete the total devastation of society. They have no goal state other than "create revolution". There's no tomorrow, only a perpetual attempt at destruction in order to produce followers who will obey. In the US, at least 50% of the people are vehemently opposed to these plans and will refuse to obey. As these plans become more visible to more people, that percentage will grow. I was merely ahead of the curve. I've always been politically ahead-of-the-curve. I'm aware that I'm writing to someone who can't be convinced. I knew it from the start. But there are others for whom this will explain the absurd failures of leadership which seem like stupid mistakes but are anything but. They're strategies. Time tested and well known in the political sphere. They're tactics used by envious incompetent would-be elites to sustain power illegitimately because they could never sustain it on their own merit. There are no accidents in global economies. There are no coincidences. There are no actors without selfish agendas. The days of humanitarian leadership began to decay when more open voting was introduced to what should've remained a republic system. After all, almost nobody is so virtuous that they wouldn't exploit absolute and unaccountable power. The average person can't even manage their own finances with restraint. How could they understand and empower leaders who could rule with that understanding? Since those new voters pay no short term price for sustaining the republic, they guarantee bad decisions. When others bear the consequences for your bad decisions, you will continue to make worse decisions until your ability to make them is curtailed or you ruin your own ability to do so.

but big brother controls it and you cant just make up new words without approval right?

That is possible only due to freedom of speech. A right you no longer have during authoritarian government rule. Since linguistic rules are set by the government, even if you come up with new words, no one will understand you and by that time you would already have been tracked down.

No wonder reactionaries have been so attracted to the book and Orwell in general. Like what Orwell calls newspeak is just language evolving.

I love the movies and books.

...Why? I mean it seems shitty af but why ban it?

@Project Otaku people want to have banned books banned for all kinds of reason. I think this was because it was sexually explicit and didn't want it as a display where kids could see

Oh man. It was the only book I couldn't finish at uni . There's a scene with hamsters... oh man

I wish authors would stop including animal deaths/abuse

American Psycho made me throw up, but I wouldn’t ban it.

Actually, the boomers wanted to read these books. It was their parents and grandparents who were banning them.

The issue is there is always someone out there who is getting offended over something which hurts its feelings. Some books hurt Jews feelings, others hurt Muslim's feelings, others hurt black people's feelings. Eg: Satanic Verses is blasphemous and quite offensive to all Muslims just like other books are offensive to other people with different beliefs and races. The question is where do we draw the line?

I'm not surprised that the book Mein Kampf was banned. He was truly sick.

This is true. If they did they would stop watching.

Ist es nicht so das auch nicht originale erlaubt sind? ( sorry wenn ich falsch liege)

@@demi__gaming7685 Nein, Antiquitäten sind erlaubt.

@@AngelBarachiel okay danke für die augklärung

@@demi__gaming7685 man darf sie halt nicht öffentlich Bewerben oder zugänglich machen. Herr Solmeckke hat dazu ein gutes Video veröffentlicht.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first published in Imperial Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. It played a key part in popularizing belief in an international Jewish conspiracy.

I had an amazing teacher for American lit back in high school. We started out reading Jonathon Edward’s “sinners in the hands of an angry God” and wound up with Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. Mrs Dyer, if you are alive today, I still love you.

@Taz C Through bread and circuses! That's how it's been done for centuries...

Are you sure? Suggested titles for books that I would look into banning: How to Create a Nuclear Bomb, The Paedophile's Guide, Kill All the [Insert Race Here].

@@Gmackematix I don’t care if the book is called How to Create a Nuclear Bomb Whose Fallout Turns Everyone Into Pedophiles that Specifically Rape to Death Babies of [Insert Race Here].

I read lord of the flies

I've always been curious, I'm always intrigued to look into the mind and thought process of someone like that. Especially someone so infamous. I understand why it's probably a good idea to not have it widely available to the public, but I'm glad it's still available for people who want to study it.

Well we all knew he was a very sick man.

suggest it on there website

I didn't, but I don't want it banned at all!

Catcher in the Rye was seminal to my growing up.

Someone has a great taste in music my friend. I raise my glass to you!

I just started reading this book in English class and I have to say it’s quite good 👍

I just couldn't finish it without constantly thinking about killing John Lennon

@@nanohernandez6973 I suppose it's not very common knowledge that Lennon just happened to be one of many potential targets on a list. His luck simply ran dry.

Me too. His holier than thou attitude was just unbearable

If we followed that line of thought through, though, there'd be considerably less left on our (remaining) bookstores' shelves. There's a LOT of badly written pieces of crap out there 😀