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how many books have you read off of this list?

and how much have they completely warped your mind? http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=bbwlinks&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=85714">ALA's 100 most frequently challenged books list includes to kill a mocking bird, the harry potter series, numerous judy blume books, the adventures of tom sawyer, and more. other lists of banned books on the ALA's site include 1984, brave new world, the giver, the bluest eye, grapes of wrath, and many more "classic" novels. opinions on literary censorship are welcome as well. btw, this is ALA's list of top 100 challenged books. that means that parents, teachers, whomever, had some sort of issue w/ something of the content of any of these books. some are challenged for dealing with homosexuality, some are challenged for sexual content, some are challenged for racial content, and some are challenged for language.

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  1. Sex by Madonna
  2. I've read 16 of those books
  3. I read a lot of the classics when I was younger, that are on this list. As for banned books, I don't think any books should be banned. Whenever libraries are asked to not carry these books only two libraries in the country disregard these lists, one is of course the Library of Congress and the other is the City of Indianapolis' Library.
  4. ive read the whole HP series
  5. I've only read the Harry Potter series.. =x In what genre are the books listed in the list? I don't know what they have in common.. seeing as how I've only read 1 out of the 100 =x
  6. Well I have read quite a lot, although I need to hit the classics more. Books read, Harry Potter series, Judy Blume books, Flowers for Algernon, Grapes of Wrath, Madeline L'Engle books, Color Purple, 1984, Stephen King books, I'm sure alot more, just can't think right now, as I am suffering a cold! Just think, in order for these books to have been banned, it means at one time the person(persons) banning the books had to have bought the book in order to have read it! Reminds me of a comment I made about the Harry Potter series, a group of people were actually burning the books. Saying that evil was in the books> well i wish it was that easy to find evil<
  7. Harry potter series (but halfway through book 7) i love harry potter!! maybe a few words of 'the witches' by roald dahl?? Blubber i THINK..maybe To kill a mockingbird...earlier this year..when i was 13..it was quite interesting actually..good life lessons and such i heard of tiger eyes.thinki wanted to read it but i didnt well so yeah thats it!! jeez i should read more.... =P =]take care
  8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine The Witches by Roald Dahl The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  9. 3:-)
  10. ive read quite a few of those books, but 1984 is by far the best book on the list, its actually incredible but why the hell were some of those judy blume books 'challenged', shes a kids author!! if you want a shocking read, try Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh possibly one of the most offensive books ever written, but its amazing!
  11. I have read 4 of those books, most memorable of the 4 were The Outsiders and Pigman. Both were school texts in the days when the school purchased texts en masse and each child got a copy to borrow until it was read thoroughly.
  12. I have read 15 of them. The first 7 on my list were assigned reading in my school. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry Go Ask Alice by Anonymous Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Blubber by Judy Blume Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume I just bought The Witches by Roald Dahl at a thift store but haven't read it yet. BBW (Banned Book Week) should be celebrated every week. I have BBW information myspace and I keep it up all year round. "BBW is a celebration of our freedom to read, to seek, hold, receive, and disseminate ideas, even if they are unorthodox or unpopular. Help spread the word! Encourage your friends and colleagues to celebrate their freedom to read. It's one of our most important democratic freedoms!" http://blogs.ala.org/oif.php?title=celebrate2007bbw&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Mount these Web badges on your blogs and home pages to help spread the word about BBW. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/bbwwebbadges.htm Office for Intellectual Freedom http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=oif National Coalition Against Censorship http://www.ncac.org/ "Fight Evil, Read Books." "Free People Read Freely." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury (author of Fahrenheit 451)
  13. I've read twelve of those books from that list. I would not consider any of the ones I read worthy of being censored. The Judy Blume ones I read as a child and I certainly am not warped because of them. All censoring does is create a desire to read the books from the list. I'll probably make a trip to my local library BECAUSE they've been listed. Thanks!
  14. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (all 7 books) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine (just 2 or 3 books) The Color Purple by Alice Walker Sex by Madonna The Witches by Roald Dahl To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein - I love all of Shel Silverstein's sketches! So funny! The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney Lord of the Flies by William Golding Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday Carrie by Stephen King The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett Except for the Harry Potter series, I wasn't aware that these books were challenged. Geez!
  15. like 2...i heard of most of them...but haven't read them...i'm occupied with a few other series right now
  16. # Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz # Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling # Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
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