Free Range by Bill Whitehead for April 20, 2024

“Burned” books are “hellish” casualties.

All school trips should be band.

Nowadays, I hear even old Enid Blyton books are frowned upon, for their “triggering” language. I have over 30 of her books in my library, which I cherish for their un-woke originality.

Read him something by Proust, that’ll knock him out before you know it!!!

The people who ban books are never the good guys in history.

Banning books is a plot by publishers to increase sales. /s

Fahrenheit 451 – yes.

1984 – no.

I’ve never read a book that was banned where I was at the time I read it. I’ve read books that people had tried to ban long before I got to them. I’ve read books that were banned in other countries. And I’ve read of modern attempts to either ban or bowdlerize books that I read years ago. Huckleberry Finn and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory come to mind.

I can only remember reading one book because of the attempts to ban it, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. In that case, the reaction went beyond attempts to suppress the book; the author’s life was in danger (and still is).

How about one of those Blood ’n Guts fairy (oops, should say fiction) tales by the brothers Grimm?

I write banned books

If I remember correctly, they “banned” Dr. Seuss for the un-woke wording.

Road Trips by Myles Away.

Seems like the more you take things away the more we humans want them…..

When I was teaching high school, I did that as an experiment. I gave the kids a list of books that they could read and report on, marking those that were banned by some parent groups. I explained to them that many people thought those books should be banned, but the others were acceptable. I would accept reports on any of them. Guess which books were read about 80% of the time.

He wants Dad to strike up the banned.

lots of those banned books, like “1984”, were required reading when i was in high school

And so you should!

Yep. Try the US Constitution. It might still be on the selves, but not for long if the communist liberal democrats have their way. It gets in their way.

As soon as I heard a book was being banned I got it for the nieces and nephews. They LOVED them and couldn’t figure out why they were being banned. Their favorite was Go Ask Alice. None of them ever did drugs after reading that one.

They should have a much bigger library if it includes banned books.

The really banned books are not on the shelf. They are under the mattress, where dad can’t find them.

Close the window and disable any smart devices.

Don’t worry kid. It’s a book, so it’s probably banned in a lot of places.