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Monday, October 1, 2007
Banned Books Chosen By Readers Of This Blog
Posted by Alan at 12:01 AM
Labels: Banned Books Week, book reviews, Books, Read Freely
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I think I am going to reread Fahrenheit 451 again this week. It's been years since I read it. There was some news in May when Bradbury spoke, explaining that Fahrenheit 451 was not meant to condemn censorship of books. Instead he meant it as a condemnation of television for tendency to be used as a substitute for reading. If you ever see the old movie version, note the references to the forest of TV antennas on the roofs of most homes shown on film.
wow. I had no idea. I think this changes the way I feel about the book but not yet sure how. (I really had thought of it as the ultimate anti-censorship manifesto...)
I think he looked at it from a higher level than censorship of books. If you look at it from the TV as a replacement for reading, you see that a government can bypass any controversy over banning a book and just eliminate the market for books entirely by weaning people away from reading as a pastime.
Oooooh, I love the new selections. I'm such an anarchist at heart!
Censorship, at it's very heart, has more to do with books that simply make us feel "uncomfortable" with our own prejudices than it does with books that we find obscene.
Thanks, Ron. I was surprised and impressed at the number and quality of suggestions I received.
I never knew A Light in The Attic was
banned so thanks for sharing this post. I love reading the book to my kids and hearing their laughter.
Wow thats a book! I am not really a book reader but my hubby likes to read and he likes books.
I've read Fahrenheit 451 and I really liked it. I thought it made a good argument of how extreme measures of censorship seem may prove counter-productive. I believe Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is also banned? I wish I had read your post before I wrote my latest post, would have loved to have linked to banned books!
And I believe that some libraries tried to ban Enid Blyton too!
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