tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205851372652906682011-04-21T11:19:32.128-07:00Banmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13728779875420489377noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520585137265290668.post-17876955967441042882008-10-22T15:30:00.000-07:002008-11-27T21:37:38.604-08:00So I finished it. What a scary story. I read this in high school, but not since then. I didn't see the movie, but I bet it was really creepy. I can imagine this on film. The heat, the sweat. The cute little British boys turning into savages...And it was so easy, that slide into lawlessness. It's very disturbing.<br /> But really, what did I think would happen when I reread this story? Would I suddenly understand why people would want to ban it? The fact that someone wanted to ban it, doesn't make it more than it is. <br /> I'm not any smarter than I was before. Shoot.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/520585137265290668-1787695596744104288?l=bannedreads.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Banmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13728779875420489377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520585137265290668.post-42631721628523668022008-10-20T09:15:00.000-07:002008-10-20T12:57:14.473-07:00of starting a blog and then not adding to it!  Oh, the laziness!  Oh well.  There has been a public request for the list of books I am reading.  So here it is:<div><br /></div><div>1. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald</div><div>2. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger</div><div>3. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck</div><div>4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee</div><div>5. The Color Purple, Alice Walker</div><div>6. Ulysses, James Joyce</div><div>7. Beloved, Toni Morrison</div><div>8. The Lord of the Flies, William Golding</div><div>9. 1984, George Orwell</div><div>10. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov</div><div>11. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck</div><div>12. Catch-22, Joseph Heller</div><div>13. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley</div><div>14. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway</div><div>15. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner</div><div>16. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway</div><div>17. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad</div><div>18. Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Hurston</span></div><div>19. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison</div><div>20. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Sond</span> of Solomon, Toni Morrison</div><div>21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell</div><div>22. Native Son, Richard Wright</div><div>23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Kesey</span></div><div>24. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut</div><div>25. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway</div><div>26. The Call of the Wild, Jack London</div><div>27. Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin</div><div>28. All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren</div><div>29. The Lord of the Rings, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">JRR</span> Tolkien</div><div>30. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair</div><div>31. Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Lawerence</span></div><div>32. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess</div><div>33. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote</div><div>34. Satanic Verses, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Salman</span> Rushdie</div><div>35. Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence</div><div>36. Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut</div><div>37. A Separate Peace, John Knowles</div><div>38. Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs</div><div>39. Women in Love, DH Lawrence</div><div>40. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer</div><div>41. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller</div><div>42. An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser</div><div>43. Rabbit Run, John Updike</div><div><br /></div><div>Many of these I have read before. But I'll read them again to see if I can understand why people would want to ban them.  </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/520585137265290668-4263172162852366802?l=bannedreads.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Banmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13728779875420489377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520585137265290668.post-57575597927003737542008-09-08T12:25:00.000-07:002008-09-09T06:59:59.248-07:00My Own Private Windmill<div>      I have never lived in a community where books were banned.   Or maybe I have and never payed attention.  I don't understand banning or burning books.  I really don't get it.  Soon it will be Banned Books Week and I thought it would be cool to read some of those banned books.  Let's see what the big todo is all about.  I googled banned books and came up with some serious listage.  Wikipedia has a huge list of books banned around the world since the dawn of man. That's too many for me.  So I picked this list: "Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century".  Sweet.  And, I thought I'd blog about this experience.  We'll see how it goes.  Stay tuned...</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/520585137265290668-5757559792700373754?l=bannedreads.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Banmehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13728779875420489377noreply@blogger.com1