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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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[naelany.livejournal.com]

no kidding! I really don't understand it. Especially with certain books. Did we really "suffer" from reading books like Sherlock Holmes or even Moll Flanders?

[brightshadowsky.livejournal.com]

No, of course not. But it made other people uncomfortable, so of course it shouldn't be around. >_< Hell, the book Night by Elie Wiesel made me uncomfortable, too - descriptions of hangings will do that to a person. But no way would i ever try to keep my kid from reading it. It's something they should know about, so that something like the Holocaust won't happen again.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

No kidding. If you were to ban everything that made you uncomfortable, then there'd be nothing about the wars and Holocausts the world has known. Those things certainly make me uncomfortable, but I read/see them all the same