Notes from Libraryland

[owlmoose]

My favorite library linkspam blog brought me the following tidbits:

* The best novels you've never read, as listed by New York Magazine.

* Is it a PSA extolling the joys of reading, or is it an ad for a library self-checkout machine? You decide!* More book banning madness: A Canadian library decides to ban the His Dark Materials series. On what

Comments

[lassarina]

....banning Phillip Pullman cause he's an atheist? Those books are crazy religious. wtf.

[owlmoose]

There is a lot of religion in those books, but the depiction of religion is overall negative. For awhile, there was a story going around that the movie wasn't even going to be made because the studio was afraid of coming under attack by the religious right.

I think the books were really pulled because they're critical of religion, but the library board didn't want to admit that. Either that, or they assume that only an atheist can be critical of religion. No, there can't *possibly* be religious people who might have criticisms of their faith and others. Uh huh.

[oswulf]

Like Martin Luther for example...

Peh, Orson Scott Card is a mormon but that doesn't keep Ender's Game from ranking near the top of my favorite books ever.

Y'know... it took me forever to get The Deathly Hallows read, mainly because I got it on the first day of a 10-day work week, but as I was reading the last few chapters it really struck me that the values in that series are far more consistent with the central tenets of Christianity then that Left Behind series could ever hope to be.

Although to be fair, I've just read the first of the kids LB series.