Favourite banned book?

[Brickjectivity]

Bridge to Terabithia ... I taught it several times to Grade 6s. Also, any other Newberry award winner that has been banned.

I saw the movie. I had no idea it was from a banned book.

 

[Wildswanderer]

Books are constantly banned, restricted and even burned.
So which is your personal fave?
For me I grew up on Harry Potter (ironically I think it was promoted because my educators thought the challenges against the series were dumb.)
Lolita. I don’t know if I love or despise this book. But I can’t deny that it didn’t challenge me as a reader and drunken connoisseur of the “classics.”
To Kill a Mockingbird. A poignant piece about prejudice seen through a child’s eyes.
Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Ironically constantly challenged or banned or restricted. Both books are absolute bangers and about the dangers of censorship and other authoritarian actions.

What are some of yours?

Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite sci Fi books.

 

[Sand Dancer]

I thought the Satanic panic ended in the 80s?

Does it ever end?

 

[Sand Dancer]

Bridge to Terabithia ... I taught it several times to Grade 6s. Also, any other Newberry award winner that has been banned.

What's wrong with that one?

 

[Sand Dancer]

I saw the movie. I had no idea it was from a banned book.

Don't you feel like a rebel now?

 

[Vinayaka]

What's wrong with that one?

Children's book ... one of the main characters dies. On one list I read, it was #9 in terms of number of times it had been banned. It's a really beautiful book, but incredibly sad.

Bartcop Entertainment - Top 100 Banned Books

 

[Brickjectivity]

Don't you feel like a rebel now?

Is this blackmail? I won't pay.

 

[blü 2]

Books are constantly banned, restricted and even burned.
So which is your personal fave?
For me I grew up on Harry Potter (ironically I think it was promoted because my educators thought the challenges against the series were dumb.)
Lolita. I don’t know if I love or despise this book. But I can’t deny that it didn’t challenge me as a reader and drunken connoisseur of the “classics.”
To Kill a Mockingbird. A poignant piece about prejudice seen through a child’s eyes.
Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Ironically constantly challenged or banned or restricted. Both books are absolute bangers and about the dangers of censorship and other authoritarian actions.

What are some of yours?

The Necronomicon. Wouldn't be without it.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

"The Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine. I feel like a lot of banned books are banned due to local politics or obscenity, but this one in particular has humanitarian and deep, philosophical importance.

The list of banned books is actually quite long, especially when open the door to local politics. I'd wager most readers have read at least a few without realizing it.
Which in itself is harrowing.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The Necronomicon. Wouldn't be without it.

Has that one been banned?

 

[blü 2]

Has that one been banned?

Sounds like it's time you met the Necronomicon ...

 

[SomeRandom]

Sounds like it's time you met the Necronomicon ...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Sounds like it's time you met the Necronomicon ...

I know what it is. I've not heard of it being banned, and the wiki article says it's never been out of print.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Can't say it is a favourite of mine, but worth a read, and was banned during my youth before getting such lifted - Lady Chatterley's Lover.

 

[blü 2]

I know what it is. I've not heard of it being banned, and the wiki article says it's never been out of print.

That's because it's never been in print, which shows you how totally banned it is.

(Years ago I wrote a paper on Lovecraft for a reading group, so there's not much of his fiction I don't know.)