"Now to take on the Muggles and that Pussy Jesus."

[katie__pillar]

Good lord I'm bored (ooh, and I'm also a poet who didn't know it) and I don't have any work to do. Also I am not in the right frame of mind for fic reading. Boo. I bought my robot shoes the other day though, so that's keeping me positive! Not that I'll probably get them for ages. Stupid postal strikes

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[sugarplum634]

Katie, what site do you watch bones through? I need to watch it earlier than 2am or my fridays will be shot to pieces for weeks! Tbh I thought it was good but the ending was a bit of a let down. Glad they haven't just turned Booth back to the same guy tho.

[katie__pillar]

This was the Canadian version - it's on a day earlier in Canada than America. I download it but it's a Fight Club type situation - I'm not allowed to talk about the comms I get links from in unlocked posts! I'm not sure if they're taking membership requests at the moment anyway. Or if you torrent you can get it that way?

[sugarplum634]

Fair enough...I sppose I could just watch it on friday night via the site i use instead of in the middle of thurs night!

[xanantha]

I wasn't allowed to read Brother in the Land when I was seven, but that was prolly A Good Call, I feel. Erk.

[katie__pillar]

Well you know me, nothing much phases me! I didn't read that one till I was about 24 but that was just because I managed to miss it somehow during childhood.

[xanantha]

Mummy was cross because she did not really want my vivid imagination being given access to nuclear warfare & horrors thereof. Brother in the Land gets pretty graphic at some points, after all... Ech. Mostly she wouldn't interfere with what we wanted to read though: that's the only thing I remember ever not being allowed to read.

There was a lot we weren't allowed to watch on TV when I was little though. Grange Hill and Byker Grove were both out - as were all soaps. With the soaps twas cos mummy basically felt there was no need for us to be glued to the TV for ages after school and also cos they are-were Rubbish TV ("chewing-gum for the brain"). We did also have the problem of whatever we were watching needing to be Suitable Viewing for ALL of us and Chloë is about 6 years younger than Daniel is...

[yan_tan_tether]

Jumping in to say... I read that when I was eight or so and wasn't too freaked out by it, mainly because I think I was too young to completely understand it. I read The Last Children by Gudrun Pausewang when I was eleven though and it completely terrified me, I think my anti-nuclear position today still stems from reading that book.

[yan_tan_tether]

I can't think of any banned books off the top of my head but when I worked in a library about 6 years ago they had a locked cabinet containing the "rude" books (erm, the Joy of Sex and a couple of ancient sex ed volumes) and if you wanted to borrow them you had to ask a library assistant for the key, which I always thought was fantastically Victorian.

[katie__pillar]

Wow, it really is. I remember Forever was kept in the school librarian's desk and only year 9s and above were allowed to borrow it. When I finally got around to reading it I mainly just loled really hard and was disappointed about all the build up it had had in my head.

[yan_tan_tether]

This wasn't even a school library, which makes it still more bizarre - I must go in there next time I'm oop north and see if they still have the Secret Cabinet.

I remember Forever being passed around my group of friends like contraband goods when I was eleven or so.

[katie__pillar]

Did it fall open at the dirty bits? The school copy did.

[tiphanism]

a) boxes are a good thing. I love boxes and have to stop myself acquiring boxes I have no use for.

b) I never understood the banning books thing - I mean, isn't it the one thing that will guarantee more people read it, so see what it's really like? I only read Lady Chatterley because of the rumpus over it...

[katie__pillar]

This is my stance on it - all the "top ten most challenged" list does for me is make me want to read them all!