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3 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2009 - 1:55PM
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Ha, 1984 can easily be deemed anti-Communist or pro-Communist, depending on who wants to do the spinning. Essentially he was writing against all big governments, left or right. I always took it to be anti-Communist, though, so the allegations of its pro-Communism seem completely ludicrous to me.
It was anti-Communist. Orwell volunteered for the Marxist faction during the Spanish Civil War, and actually suffered a near-fatal throat wound during the fighting. Unfortunately for him, however, the political infighting between Stalin and his rivals bled over into the Marxist forces. Orwell, his girlfriend, and a fellow writer found themselves on the wrong side of Stalin's wrath when the purges started, as the unit they were with was labeled "traitorous" because they followed the wrong Commie figurehead. As a result, the three went from "valiant heroes" to "wanted criminals" overnight, and only just barely made it back to England. The whole experience left Orwell so furious at the notion of Communism that he produced "1984" and "Animal Farm" in response, his way of warning people what was in store if they didn't fight the mentality.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2009 - 12:49PM
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This reminds me of something I read in Denis Leary's book "Why We Suck". He said in Catholic school, they would use the banned books list as a reading list. He then proceeded to say something to help ensure that the book got banned :).
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3 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2009 - 9:38AM
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Ha, 1984 can easily be deemed anti-Communist or pro-Communist, depending on who wants to do the spinning. Essentially he was writing against all big governments, left or right. I always took it to be anti-Communist, though, so the allegations of its pro-Communism seem completely ludicrous to me.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2009 - 12:12PM
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I am curious who banned 1984, because I think it is one of the best books ever written.
Found a link from the American Library Association that provides the reason why many books have been either banned or challenged.
According to this link, which I assume will be very reliable, 1984 wasn't banned; instead it was challenged. Pasting text from the link above related to 1984 below. Challenged in the Jackson County, FL (1981) because Orwell's novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter." Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle. Also from the ALA --- the difference between Banned and Challenged books: "A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others."
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3 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2009 - 4:47AM
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I thought you asked for books that where banned, not challenged. There is a difference.
Where'd you get that from? afaik everything discussed so far has ostensibly been banned. No matter.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 15, 2009 - 12:40PM
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I thought you asked for books that where banned, not challenged. There is a difference. Here is a list I found on the internet by doing a google search. Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Blubber by Judy Blume Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Christine by Stephen King Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cujo by Stephen King Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Decameron by Boccaccio East of Eden by John Steinbeck Fallen Angels by Walter Myers Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Forever by Judy Blume Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Have to Go by Robert Munsch Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Impressions edited by Jack Booth In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Lord of the Flies by William Golding Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein Lysistrata by Aristophanes More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier My House by Nikki Giovanni My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara Night Chills by Dean Koontz Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ordinary People by Judith Guest Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Separate Peace by John Knowles Silas Marner by George Eliot Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Bastard by John Jakes The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks The Living Bible by William C. Bower The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders The Shining by Stephen King The Witches by Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
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3 years ago ::
Jun 15, 2009 - 11:31AM
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I am curious who banned 1984, because I think it is one of the best books ever written.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 15, 2009 - 4:43AM
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The only one I remember reading & (thinking I) knew at the time had been once banned was Johnny Got His Gun. Back then I enthusiastically supported it (the book, that is, not its banning). Now when I think back to some of its passages I'm not as sure I could so unequivocally support it anymore. But of course I couldn't condone banning it at all. If Bill O'Reilly & all the whack-job American right-wing domestic terrorists can go on spewing their hate speech freely, I sure can't see why Johnny Got His Gun should possibly be banned.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 15, 2009 - 2:32AM
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I have probably read all of the books mentioned - but didn't know any of them had been banned. The only banned book I can think of is D H Lawrence's classic Lady Chatterley's Lover and I well remember the court case in he early 60's which eventually allowed this work to be published.
Bev Bev Davey, England
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3 years ago ::
Jun 08, 2009 - 1:49PM
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Okay, I looked at the list again. Harry Potter and Catcher in the Rye are on it. I counted 172 titles (and I was intererrupted twice so the count may not be accurate) and I counted 69 that I had read. So, I have not read the overwhelming majority as I thought. Many I have never heard of. I am 69/172.
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