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   leftwingpatriot said, 8 months ago

   Don’t have time to read with so many books to ban.
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   Kali39 said, 8 months ago

   “Wow, this is the greatest book I’ve ever read! As soon as I’m finished, we must ban it immediately!”
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   Coyoty said, 8 months ago

   Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world — the brains of men. —Roger Mifflin, “The Haunted Bookshop” by Christopher Morley
   
   Whereas Mifflin considered that a good thing, there are people who take the analogy literally and are threatened by books with brains.
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   celecca said, 8 months ago

   I just re-read Fahrenheit 451 – still pertinent.
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   Michael McMillan said, 8 months ago

   I read a column written by an author who wanted his books banned. By his theory, absolutely nothing is better for sales of a book than to have it banned somewhere. As soon as news of the banning gets out, people buy the book to see what the fuss is about.
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   Kip W said, 8 months ago

   Ballyhoo publicist Harry Reichenbach paid some kids to stand outside a shop window and leer at “September Morn” (according to Reichenbach), and then called a newspaper posing as an outraged citizen. The resulting manufactured scandal put sales of the undistinguished kitsch through the roof.
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   SUSAN NEWMAN said, 8 months ago

   I wonder if “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” will also be banned.
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   SherlockWatson said, 8 months ago

   In an episode of Sit Down, Shut Up (the US version), almost all the books in the school library were banned, including the dictionary; it had words like “fellatio” and “evolution” in it.
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   knitkitty said, 8 months ago

   @SUSAN NEWMAN

   It’s been tried…
   http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2011/03/06/banned-book-awareness-uncle-toms-cabin-harriet-beecher-stowe/
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    bibliotechnique said, 8 months ago

    As a librarian, I deal with this all the time. It’s not pleasant, especially when it’s coming from a holy roller.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago

    Some people have the strange idea if something is protested it should be removed. But that would eventually mean that our book shelves would be empty because some one some where will not like something published. You have freedom to not buy it, but not freedom to ban it.
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    NebulousRikulau said, 8 months ago

    @bibliotechnique

    Would the ‘holy rollers’ like to ban a book that promotes genocide, features stories about murder, marital infidelity, torture, and has erotic poetry?
    
    Yes, I’m talking about the Bible.
    Too many people who claim to know what it says seem to have never actually read the whole thing.
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    Michael wme said, 8 months ago

    @NebulousRikulau

    One might say the Bible has been banned many times. Or not, depending on your definition of the Bible (Bible is Greek for ‘book’).

    
    According to ancient historians, the first Gospel was in ‘the language of the Hebrews’ but that Gospel has never been found and many modern historians say it never existed. It might have been the first banned Bible. The first preserved Gospels were in Greek. The Roman Church said everyone should read the Bible in Latin, not Greek, and deprecated the Greek Bible.

    
    Then the Protestants banned the Latin Bible. Then many sects banned the translations by other sects.

    
    Is banning one translation of the Bible the same as banning the Bible?

    
    I don’t know.
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    Furienna said, 8 months ago

    @NebulousRikulau

    True, many things in the Bible seems awful to people these days. “The song of songs”, however, is less controversial today than what it has been before.
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    Ms. Ima said, 8 months ago

    Hunger Games? I’m waiting for the movie.
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