And what is your favorite banned book?
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/index.cfm
Me.. I love Vonnegut, Judy Blume, Roald Dahl, Lois Lowry...
The reading list in my Sr. Lit class in HS was nothing but banned books - Ms. V believed in the quiet rebellion.
LilyRT
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currently reading For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway--forbidden to be mailed and banned in Turkey.
gotta love Mark Twain--especially gotta love the irony that it's banned for racist language considering the meaning behind the book is decidedly non-racist.
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Lois Lowry was awesome. I love all of her books.
Roald Dahl is great, too.
Personally, I like the HP series- banned, I belive in several school systems.
And OMG... Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children series was AMAZING. I loved her work, but I guess evolution is too much of a touch subject for people nowdays. Ugh.
Mart Twain is alright, although most of his books were actually required reading in our school. Go figure.
And no, I have not read anything as an act of rebellion. I read them because I wanted to.. most of them before I knew anything about them being banned.
kickthecan61
The Bible is banned in nearly a dozen countries. Reading the Bible is always an act of rebellion against the "Old Adam" in me, not necessarily against any particular person, rule, or country.
Mark C
I read Catcher in the Rye when I was a teenager out of rebellion, yes. But I didn't get it. As far as I could tell, it was just banned because of the language.
But when I read it as an adult, I got a whole new understanding out of it. I loved it. It's one of my favorite books.
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Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Animal Farm, Catch-22, and Slaughterhouse 5 are fantastic books that everyone should read. Lolita and Brave New world are also good, but a touch over hyped, IMHO.