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[naelany]

Can someone please explain to me the concept of banning books? I mean...Sherlock Holmes is on the banned book list? WTF? Little House on the Prairie? Clan of the Cavebear? Even books that were on my required list back when I was in High School, like Moll Flanders, The Color Purple.... I mean..come on!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_holly/]

Banned books are books that have been or once were banned someplace because someone disliked what was in them enough to fight for their being banned. Books usually banned for a school district, not a wide-spread area. Usually the it's a Christian group fighting for the books to be banned because they don't like that there is such-and-such a thing in the book, like witchcraft or adultery, etc.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

eh, people need to keep an open mind. If you close the mind, you don't learn

[http://users.livejournal.com/_holly/]

You're preaching to the choir on that one.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I am ^_^