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09-24-2003, 05:43 PM
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 Not everyone's wild about Harry Potter Summary: Harry Potter has done it again. The latest list that he is topping is 2002's Most Challenged Books, issued by the American Library Association for Banned Books Week, Sept. 20-27. Article: Harry denouncers say the series "glamorizes the occult and will attract (readers) to satanism," says Beverley Becker of the library association.
Books that come under fire most often are extremely popular (Harry Potter, Captain Underpants), are stocked in the library or are assigned school reading (Bridge to Terabithia, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Becker says.
Hundreds of books are questioned each year. The Top 10 Most Challenged Books for 2002 and the reasons cited for challenging them (www.ala.org/bbooks):
1. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (wizardry and magic).
2. Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group. "Unsuited to age group" usually means a younger child has access to a book in a library meant for older children.
3. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier, which was also the Most Challenged Book of 1998 (offensive language, unsuited to the age group).
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence, unsuited to age group).
5.Taming the Star Runner by S.E. Hinton (offensive language).
6.Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey (insensitivity, unsuited to age group, encourages children to disobey authority).
7. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (racism, insensitivity, offensive language).
8. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (offensive language, sexual content, occult, satanism).
9. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (insensitivity, racism and offensive language).
10. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George (sexual content, offensive language, violence, unsuited to age group). Yahoo! News  | |
09-24-2003, 07:58 PM
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A couple of those books I've read in school!! So some schools must not have a prob with those books!
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09-24-2003, 08:06 PM
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I know I've read practically half of those books, and one of the books was assigned to us just because the teacher is very, umm, rebelious. But I htink it's crazy how they ban books. I mean, it's the readers choice whether they want to read something or not isn't it?
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09-24-2003, 09:48 PM
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| | Puffskein
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Well, obviously Huck Finn is going to be racist...it is taking place in a time that slavery still existed and demonstrates the stupidity of the practice... geez...some people take things too seriously... and Harry Potter ius just like an other fantasy book, but once again people look too much into it to care...
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09-24-2003, 09:51 PM
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| | Gnome
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Are you kidding me . I've read and loved half the books on this list. Who are the crackpots who challenge these books they're ridding the world of good literature. As for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain racism come on the racism in it is based on history you might as well destroy all books telling the lives of slaves and the plight of the African people in America. | |
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09-24-2003, 09:52 PM
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A middle school in my area just banned the Goosebumps series because they weren't "age appropriate". People are taking things to seriously. People are forgetting that at least children are reading again and not watching tv or playing a video game.
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09-24-2003, 10:01 PM
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| | Gnome
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Goosebumps? I never liked the series myself but they have no right to do that. Adults have no right to do that. At my High school they won't stock some of the "graphic novels" because they aren't county approved yet they will stock books like Lovely Bones which is a horribly disgusting book which I think doesnt deserve to be printed. Same with Terry Brooks the man is well lets just say "very detailed" and yet they have dozens of books by the man. | |
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09-25-2003, 02:52 AM
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Quote: glamorizes the occult and will attract (readers) to satanism," that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard. (well one of the stupidest things) i'm a Christian and the harry potter books have never downsized my Christian belief.
all this "American Library Association for Banned Books" is just stuuuupid :angry:
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09-25-2003, 02:54 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by hermione713@Sep 24 2003, 08:52 PM Quote: glamorizes the occult and will attract (readers) to satanism," that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard. (well one of the stupidest things) i'm a Christian and the harry potter books have never downsized my Christian belief.
all this "American Library Association for Banned Books" is just stuuuupid :angry: yea!I agree, but Im catholic.grrrr...to them all.grrrrr..... >  > >
boo to them :down:
YAY to Harry potter! :up:
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09-25-2003, 09:23 AM
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Think of it this way, has anyone bought a cauldron and started to mix their own potions? I'm pretty sure some of you have their own wands but haven't been able to make orchids pop out of the end yet?
All this just shows the vanity of some people that they think they should (and can) impose their morality (or immorality for that matter) on other people, with total disregard to free will.
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09-26-2003, 01:30 AM
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| | Gnome
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honestly  that is so stupid to ban books > its just not fair to those who want to read those books
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09-26-2003, 02:44 AM
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I can't stand it when people do these kind of things! They just sit around all day and devise ways to downcast Harry Potter and Wicca. They need to just chill and relax. If a kid wants to be an occultist, that is HIS OR HER CHOICE!!!! Not their parent's, not their teacher's, and definately not some libray's, ya know. Even if J.K. Rowling is trying to teach kids occultism (which I seriously dought) she picked good way to do it!
Post back if you agree
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10-09-2003, 12:05 AM
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i read most of the books thats listed above in the news section of this, and i think the books are fine. they don't have that much bad stuff in it anyways some of the books were really good when i read them.
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10-09-2003, 12:12 AM
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| | Billywig
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I've read a couple of those books that were on that list, "Bride of Teribithia (sp?)" and "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", among others. And the only thing that's going to end up happening with these books, ultimately, is that they're going to become literary classics. "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou (another book I've read) is a classic book, as it is. That just makes these books just that much more illusive, and it makes children, and other people want to read them even more.
And yeah, I was kinda offended when they mentioned that some of the books were racist. That irked me. And I'm African American.
But I can agree why the Captain Underpants books are on there. Those books were absolutely abominable- AT BEST! | |
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10-09-2003, 12:14 AM
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| | Billywig
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I read both Roll of Thunder and Huckleberry Finn in 5th grade. So not all schools are against them. BUt you can twist the content in any book to make it objectionable. This lists don't make sense anyhow, because most of these books end up on the summer reading list anyways, and kids can always check out the public lybrary which has no such restrictions.
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