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Top Banned Books of 2003
michaelzhao writes "The ALA (American Library Association) recently published the new 100 most frequently banned books list of 2003.
Of the banned books, Harry Potter was in the number 7th place in the most frequently banned. Also included were 'Where's Waldo' and 'The Giver' along with 'Goosebumps' and 'How to Eat Fried Worms.' These books were banned from various public institutions. This means that they were banned from various public libraries and public schools around the nation. (private schools, libraries, and institutions of higher learning don't count) The ALA encourages the people of the United States to fight against the book bans and read a banned book today!"
That's what happens when the submitter doesn't RTFA.
...it was in particular Where's Waldo: Waldo Has 2 Daddies.
Well..this wasn't banned really... They just couldn't find it.
Harry Potter - encourages children to take drugs, mainly pot
Wheres Waldo - Encourages Stalking
and as for "how to eat fried worms" this obviously encourages animal cruelty
30. "The Goats" by Brock Cole
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Slashdot encourages normally quiet and law abiding Geeks to question authority !
Ban teh Slashdot now !
A slashdotting - you get the stick first and then the carrot !
But it really did make the list. #57
Right ... just below James and the Giant Peach. Who knew that homemade bombs were less dangerous than imaginary bugs... ?
I'm just glad it's not under IT, or my eyes would melt.
Not more than you need, just more than you want
Harry Potter I can understand... I mean that kid is just weird and geeky and talks to owls.
But "Sex" by Madonna? That is basically the pinnacle of literary achievement in the 1990s
TDz
The Road Ahead by Bill Gates should be banned in all countries due to its immense stupifying effect.
Yeah, when it was published the article cauesd a riot.
What about "Mommy Laid An Egg"? Who knows how traumatized I would have been if in grade school I had read that and immediately thought back to those scrambled eggs I had for breakfast.
Little Bricklets
*snicker* ...Others from 150 years ago:
"I know why the caged bird is quiet and subservient."
"The new joy of...proper wifely housekeeping and cleaning"
"What's happening to my body? Shameful and filthy wicked things."
"Where's E.A. Poe?"
"Heather has an upper class mommy and an Irish daddy!"
"It's perfectly abnormal and wrong!"
"Saying no! to 'sex'!"
"The Whig's cookbook"
"A brave new world of corsets and revealed ankles!"
- "Hear that?! The percolations are imminent! Cease your ingress!"
Deidre Honnold's "English With Ease: Mastering the Basic Ingredients of English"
20001-1990 = 18,011 years.
That's a big survey !
The title actual is "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-20001"
Makes you wonder if Duke Nukem Forever: The Novel is on that list...
Only here can a question with no answer be modded informative ;)
I can't blame them for banning The Giver.
If you've ever had your kid bring home a Where's Waldo book and ask you to find Waldo with them, and if you've ever agreed, you'd understand why people want the book banned. It drives an adult absolutely crazy, because the child either gives up and just flips from page to page, or obsesses over every tiny detail and won't let you leave until everything has been found.
Complaints against Where's Waldo probably all take this form: a poor, harried parent calls up the school and says, "PLEASE don't let my kid bring home any more of those blasted Waldo books! I haven't slept in days; I'm seeing Waldo in the wallpaper; every time I see a guy with glasses and a striped toque I get the urge to yell out, 'I FOUND WALDO!' Please make it stop!!!"
or somethin' like dat.
Standing at the very edge of my imagination, I peered into the inky void and realised -- I couldn't think up a new sig.
And you had to jump back 2-600 years backward to draw your analogy why?
Kids shouldn't be reading books that promote witchcraft! They should be watching popular, healthy, moral TV shows like Buffy, Angel and Charmed instead!
You must think in Russian.
Nope, that "offer your daughters" bit is superceded by Christ's new covenant. The only parts of the bible that count are John 3:16, the part where God hates "fags," and Revelation (aka Bush's foreign policy plan.)
My mother always used "International Socialist" to get rid of the JW's. Trying to sell them subsciptions to commie tracts while they tried to sell you the "Watchtower" more or less made their heads explode.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word
"wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
Let's see the results...
"Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
"Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got
expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me
wang in half an' everything
A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking
forward to.
"Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter."
It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only
yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a
quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
"Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang.
Eleven inches. "
Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers.
He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the
dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a
firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls
"Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang,
tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"
The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll
will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's
wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight
up one of the troll's nostrils.
He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It
was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.
He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you
sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang
at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.
Ok
I have found, definitive proof
that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us
all
"Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving
into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on
flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might
hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear
her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
O_______O
Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the
end of his wang
Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the
silvery substance with its tip.
'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they
struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his
left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.
Go grab those torrents.
>the idiot editor who didn't bother to check and correct the submission. ..... ;)
You must be new here
no taxation without representation!
18,012 years - assuming that it is inclusive of both 1990 and 20001.
Well as long as you have honkies you'll have racism.
It's as simple as that!
Didn't you know that Mein Kampf is banned because it turns everyone who reads it into a Nazi? So beware!