Happy Banned Books Week (a little late)

Oct 25, 2009 23:38


Tomorrow is book club (and not the kind where we do spells to get good mortgages, either).

I'm looking for your opinions on whether Huck Finn is ban worthy. )

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harrigan October 26 2009, 23:34:52 UTC
Ohh... I love this topic and wish that I had something smart to offer! But I haven't read Huck Finn since high school myself, and I've lost a few brain cells since then, I think.

So instead I'll just babble.

I think of censorship in school libraries as something initiated by parents. If that's the case, is there a distinction to be made between [a] demanding that a book that one objects to not be required reading, [b] demanding that a book be removed from the school library's circulation so students can't check it out, and [c] maybe insisting that a book can't be checked out without parental permission?

I could live with [c]. I would protest [b] vehemently. And while I would never apply [a], myself, and would hate to see it happen, I'm less sure that I would condemn it as a strategy as readily as I would condemn [b]. What do you think?

And have I asked you before if you've read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak?

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deanish_ness October 27 2009, 03:57:59 UTC
I really did end up loving Huck Finn. And talking about it tonight just made me love it more. I'm really glad the member whose turn it was picked it, because I probably wouldn't have ever read it on my own. There's just so much to like about it ( ... )

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