So.. it's Banned Book Week. Have you read any banned books as an act of rebellion against banning?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nope - I live in a country where books are never banned, so there are no bannings to rebel against.

No, because I live in a country which doesn't ban books just because the people in them aren't conservative Christians. Thank goodness.

1984

Animal Farm

Of Mice And Men

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Kite Runner is banned? idk i examine it earlier, and cherished it:) there's a banned e book week? oh properly im already examining a e book the different Boleyn lady (uncertain if its banned....)