{"id":5875,"date":"2011-04-19T13:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2011-04-19T13:12:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T20:12:51","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5875","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What better way to start a banned book news roundup than with the American Library Association’s 2010 Most Frequently Challenged Books List<\/a>?\u00a0 Here are the top ten:<\/p>\n

1. And Tango Makes Three<\/em>, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
\n2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/em>, by Sherman Alexie
\n3. Brave New World<\/em>, by Aldous Huxley
\n4. Crank<\/em>, by Ellen Hopkins
\n5. The Hunger Games<\/em>, by Suzanne Collins
\n6. Lush<\/em>, by Natasha Friend
\n7. What My Mother Doesn\u2019t Know<\/em>, by Sonya Sones
\n8. Nickel and Dimed<\/em>, by Barbara Ehrenreich
\n9. Revolutionary Voices<\/em>, edited by Amy Sonnie
\n10. Twilight<\/em>, by Stephenie Meyer<\/p>\n

Looks like I have more books to add to my banned books project<\/a> reading list!<\/p>\n

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Challenging and banning books?\u00a0 That’s for pussies.\u00a0 Fundamentalist Mormons<\/a> know how to get the job done!<\/p>\n

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A parent agonizes<\/a> over allowing his 11-year-old son to read Lady Chatterly’s Lover<\/em>, and seeks inspiration from Plato, who took a dim view of allowing his fellow Greeks to read The Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Well, this is encouraging: a recent Harris poll<\/a> shows most Americans are against book banning!\u00a0 But the margin isn’t huge: only 56% of poll respondents said they were against banning any book.\u00a0 As with any poll, results can be interpreted to suit those who want to manipulate the data, and some of the pro-banning results are interesting:<\/p>\n