tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post743804582687642124..comments2024-02-01T08:20:01.784-06:00Comments on Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic: Banned BooksStephaniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05055676171075203563noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-26558796903425622702008-01-27T03:51:00.000-06:002008-01-27T03:51:00.000-06:00If you are up for another challenge, the Pelham Li...If you are up for another challenge, the Pelham Library is once again issuing the "Banned Book Challenge."fahrenheit451moderatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10731036165600788012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-2984830867046359762007-02-24T23:15:00.000-06:002007-02-24T23:15:00.000-06:00Censorship makes my butt pucker like nothing else....Censorship makes my butt pucker like nothing else. I owned and moderated a Yahoo! group that read banned books for about 3 or 4 years. We read some great titles, many of which are on your list. <BR/><BR/>Right on!Andihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05220718933942181809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-10429745399941358922007-02-23T13:32:00.000-06:002007-02-23T13:32:00.000-06:00Thanks for the comments, Lis, Chris, Bonnie, Steph...Thanks for the comments, Lis, Chris, Bonnie, Steph, and Margreet!! This is really a hot-button issue for me. Censonship of any type, whether it's books, movies, art or music. I think if a parent knows what a child is reading or watching, they can discuss through any issues. There are always things I would rather my children not see or hear....and in a perfect world, I could shield them for all the bad stuff. But this isn't a perfect world, and I feel the better we prepare them, the better off they will be!! <BR/><BR/>Yikes....I'm ranting again!!Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05055676171075203563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-2411232770089593452007-02-23T13:26:00.000-06:002007-02-23T13:26:00.000-06:00Me again..I checked the links you gave in your pos...Me again..<BR/><BR/>I checked the links you gave in your post, and see that most books were banned because of sexually explicit language. Now I wonder....does anyone give 'adult' books to children?<BR/>And then....children see violence on TV like all the time, but reading about love and sex is dangerous for their innocent minds?<BR/><BR/>PS: I don't consider my 21 yr old daughter a <BR/>child...LOL. I just know her.....Margreethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14851810433333576285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-59279496552904613732007-02-23T13:05:00.000-06:002007-02-23T13:05:00.000-06:00Great post Stephanie. This concept of banning book...Great post Stephanie. This concept of banning books is so foreign to me, I just don't know how to comment. I would like to know WHY someone wants to ban this or that book. Like one you mentioned in your list: "I know why the caged bird sings" by Maya Angelou. I've read it twice, in Dutch, and don't remember anything offensive in it, not a single word. <BR/><BR/>I have never heard of books being banned in the Netherlands. There are ofcourse the religious fundamentalists, who hate Harry Potter's stories, but they are few. Let those who don't want their kids to read a certain book do as they please, and not invade school libraries and steal them!!! Political Correctness taken waaaaay too far!!!<BR/><BR/>I do have reservations about some books, but they are based on the age of the person reading it. 'The crimson petal and the white' is a book I didn't recommend to my 21 yr old daughter, because I know she is fainthearted. But if she decided to take it off the shelf, I would only warn her, not take it away. Smart kids with responsible parents can read more than one would think though.Margreethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14851810433333576285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-31846516517429179222007-02-23T10:09:00.000-06:002007-02-23T10:09:00.000-06:00EXCELLENT POST! I find it interesting that the peo...EXCELLENT POST! I find it interesting that the people who decide that these books should be banned are the same people who don't even read the books first. I am a Catholic and proudly read "The Da Vinci Code" because I found it a really interesting piece of fiction. I plan on reading my daughter all the wonderful Harry Potter books when she is older. <BR/>Stephanie<BR/>www.thewrittenword.wordpress.comStephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08102400715959949421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-11518113589073587032007-02-23T05:39:00.000-06:002007-02-23T05:39:00.000-06:00You wrote,"Do I stifle their creativity and imagin...You wrote,<B>"Do I stifle their creativity and imagination by condemning works like Harry Potter because he is a Wizard and against God? Or do I show them Harry Potter is a work of fiction, meant only to entertain....and has nothing to do with religion?"</B><BR/><BR/>Excellent post! The Harry Potter books are NOT against God in any way. As you say, Stephanie, it's fiction and has nothing to do with religion. The point should be that GOOD triumphs over EVIL in the HP books. "Ban-the-books" parents must think their own children, unlike yours and mine, are too stupid to "get it." Children don't come away from reading the HP adventures with the idea they can become wizards or do the things Harry does.<BR/><BR/>Reading your list of books, I decided to encourage you to read <B>The Chocolate War</B>, a book that may enrage you or frustrate you, but one that will definitely make you think. Then I get here to the comments page and discover Lisa also recommends this book. Hey, Steph, does that tell you something?Bonnie Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07813549471704485150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-11766855098796654112007-02-22T17:31:00.000-06:002007-02-22T17:31:00.000-06:00I noticed that most of those books were challenged...I noticed that most of those books were challenged by parents who didn't want them in schools. What does that say about society? I'm not going to shelter my girl that way. My parents let me read just about anything (unless it was "adult" wink-wink). <BR/><BR/>My sister-in-law commented to me recently that she didn't care about language in films that she and her daughter (9) watched together b/c "She knows what's right and wrong." I thought this was the right attitude. The idea is to tell/show them the right things so that they know it when they see it on tv or in books, etc. We're the first teachers they have.<BR/><BR/>Great post Steph!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07255026646819281620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179077428618811016.post-92020984870370927672007-02-22T14:46:00.000-06:002007-02-22T14:46:00.000-06:00Girl! FN Fabulous Post! You must read The Chocol...Girl! FN Fabulous Post! You must read The Chocolate War and let me know what you think.<BR/><BR/>Censorship Sucks.<BR/><BR/>P.S. I'm reading The Book Thief right now, too. It's sensational.Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02280223180985077701noreply@blogger.com