Top 20 Books That Were Banned
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- These literary classics were not always regarded as such. For this list, we’re looking at books that have been banned for sale and distribution at some point for a wide variety of reasons. Our countdown includes “Fahrenheit 451”, “Of Mice and Men”, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “American Psycho”, “Brave New World”, and more! Let us know in the comments which you’ll definitely be reading next.
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The banning of Anne's Frank's book is absurd. It is a piece of history and must be read by people around the world, including schools aswell but this video is okay and all but some of the pics made me want to read them and to be honest the book's in this list.
Where just fine not ludicrous but fun reads.
Also thnak for the likes and all peace.
I agree
Wtf how dare they Lets banned them for doing such a thing
Agreed
I mean there is a countless number of other works of literature tht u can read and get the same experience, I don't agree but the reasons aren't absurd
It makes you wonder WHY the book is really being banned
Farenheit 451 is a very important book about the importances of books and the history on it.
11:00 Huckleberry Finn was banned for having a man of colour then banned for racial slurs when the scales tipped 😂
My high school tracher read the part of Jim as it was wrtten broken english and bad pronunciation and all....made me feel very uneasy.
hypocrites everywhere
Huck Finn is one of the most anti bigotry books I ever read. Huck’s growing love and respect for Jim and his guilt over his relationship with a black man are beautiful.
Interesting how 1984 has only become more relevant in today's world. Same with Brave new world. Wonder if Huxley was trying to tell us something?
Too true.
it also inspired the iconic apple add in 1984 promoting the macintosh computor.
If it's possible for both worlds to exist side by side with Handmaid's Tale and Fahrenheit 451 somehow we've achieved it
I just know it as a meme that conservatives use when they get held accountable for saying the N-word or whatever, saying that X is Literally 1984 or whatever.
have you actually read 1984? because absolutely nothing in that book is 'more relevant'. you're either reaching your interpretation, or Orwell was writing exactly what was happening at the same time.
Nabokov himself was a victim of child sa at the hands of his uncle. His novel was inspired by his own sexual trauma. For people to misconstrue him as an abuser is just a tragedy on top of a tragedy.
This is true.
It seems like it is all or nothing. There are definitely adult themed books that these people are putting in grade school. However, Novels like Huckleberry Finn, 1984, TO Kill A Mockingboard should definitely be read IN HIGHSCHOOL .
Harry Potter was also banned in some schools because of witchcraft. To make this ironic, they still accepted The Lord of the Rings on their shelves!
I thought it was the lion the witch, and the wardrobe that they accepted.
some school board members are blind to irony
If you actually knew about Tolkien’s life or just simply read The Silmarillion, then you know what they accepted it. Same with The Chronicles of Narnia.
@@gustyko8668 there probably are relegious fucks who rejected it purely for being fiction
Couldn’t care less, Harry Potter is piece of shit anyway
No single books that should've been banned.Books are amazing.
I think the only book which is rightfully banned is Mein Kampf from A. D., the rest I think the same as you
@@fieldy03 I've heard it's terribly written so maybe it should be banned for that reason
I’d like to nominate my favourite book series at the moment; “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. I have Autism and anxiety, in particular anxiety around reading that has stopped me from reading for a long time. Now, I’m reading “A Series of Unfortunate Events” again. So far, I’ve managed to finish all of book one, which is unheard of for me as of late.
@@victoriasalter1701 I adore that series
My grandfather (not the nicest of men, to put it mildly) had a copy of Mein Kampf which I started reading in my mid-teens. I was a voracious and ambitious reader and just thought it would be another part of my historical education. I abandoned it after maybe 50 pages because it was.... boring. SO freaking boring. Endless narcissism, turgid prose. I've never had a desire to pick it up since. I found it extraordinary that something so dense and dull could stir so many to passion of ANY kind.
Go figure.
I read a Clockwork Orange a long time ago-have never seen the movie. I’ve also read Of Mice and Men and loved it! I also read Lord of the Flies and it was a difficult read.
Lord of the flies ... I always felt that one was way to negative. ( but that's why it was made) Like the author believed that humans would automatically become crazy people if taken away from society. But looking at the time frame, it's pretty much what fan fic writers do to happy shows. ( always turn them dark and sad) /
You should check out The Clockwork Orange film, it’s amazing. Maybe even better than the book
I had to read "Of Mice and Men" in high school and I CANNOT understand what the hell is in there that would motivate someone to want to ban it
I didn’t know I had read so many banned books in HS. Mr. Jackson, where ever you are, thanks for opening the eyes of small town teens.
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. Best banned book I've ever read.
Didn't he also write Catch 22...another banned book? It's amazing to think of all the books banned for language. I'm protecting my Stephen King collection as I type this. (Stephen King's story entitled Rage is also banned and out of print due to its topic. I've got my copy!) I saw an extensive list of banned books...and choked when I saw books by Judy Blume on it! (Sorry, but I have no one to talk to about books here...LOL. )
And Catch 22 was Heller. Sorry for the mix up :)
I've heard the main reason was that it said Motherfucker too 😂
@@kelleymaxwell3875I read rage, and it honestly just wasn't any good... Stephen King is a decent writer, fun to read, but he doesn't have much to say nor is he a literary talent; however, Rage is not one of his best books; actually, I'd say it's almost comically bad.
Here's why I think it's bad: the use of language is uninteresting; the ending is weird, illogical, and badly written; the book has no actual insights into the characters it is about, unlike some of his other books...
I do not think, however, that it should be banned.
... And, while typing, I noticed your comment is two years old...
Got both book and movie of a clockwork orange. More People should really get into this story, as it's more then just gruesome violence and rape. It's about if we can sympathize with these villains, after they become the victims of violence and how we are all human beings that deserve the same rights, no matter what we have done.
My father went to see A Clockwork Orange and couldn't stop telling me how good a movie it was. Of course, he also gave me 1984 when I was 12 years old
When I was in high school my teacher made us read A Child Called IT. I had a hard time finishing it because it's so violent and horrific and gut wrenching.
I read that book last semester in my TAM class and the book is so gut-wrenching 💔
20. Fahrenheit 451
19. The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
18. A Farewell to Arms
17. Of Mice and Men
16. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
15. Lord of the Flies
14. To Kill a Mockingbird
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray
12. The Color Purple
11. Ulysses
10. A Clockwork Orange
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
8. 1984
7. And Tango Makes Three
6. American Psycho
5. The Satanic Verses
4. Mein Kampf
3. Lolita
2. Brave New World
1. The Catcher in the Rye
1984, brave new world, invitation to a beheading, and metropolis are inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Also brave new world
@@timmy18135 Kurt Vonnegut admitted that his Player Piano "cheerfully ripped off the plot of Brave New World, whose plot had been cheerfully ripped off from Yevgeny Zamyatin's We."
I remembered when I was 5th grade, every single Captain Underpants series, including the spin-off, banned on my elementary school.
Also it's funny when my 10th grade English teacher gave me a copy of the Catcher in the Rye, since he don't want it anymore.
Catcher in the rye can really screw someone up however.
It's interesting to me that most of these books (with the exception of the Satanic Verses and Anarchists) were available in our school library and encouraged to be read by us throughout my middle school and high school years...
Kind of makes me wonder if all the "banning" is just reverse psychology 🤔 😉
Required reading even! Some of the books listed were required reading when I was in school. I am also surprised Animal Farm wasn't on the list.
I'm not surprised.And I wouldn't be if some new ones ended up on a banned list.
Cinderella~Foot mutilation.(They sliced toes off to fit in the slipper).
Hansel And Gretel~Child abuse.(A witch tried to put two children in an oven.)
And finally:
Romeo And Juliet~Teen suicide of course.
If there's anyone who has not read it I highly recommend S.E. Hinton's That Was Then,This Is Now.Two boys grew up as brothers but one is changing,getting highly moody,and the other one doesn't know why.
It's a sequel to The Outsiders and it's awesome.And short.3 or 4 hour read.
Exactly, required reading when I was in school as well. Funny how now they’re a problem!
Growing up, I went to a school district that celebrated Banned Books month by encouraging us to read those books. Some fun highlights with me and banned books growing up, though:
1.) I went to a different district freshman year (moved back to my old one the following year), and they wouldn't let me check out a book by an author I liked because you had to have a permission slip from a parent if you were an underclassman. I have since learned what was controversial about the book in question (there's an assault and the aftermath is explored)... And I had checked out a book in 6th grade that had that as a larger part of the plot
2.) I got a bookmark with a list of commonly banned/challenged books around the time we started reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" for class. I used that bookmark specifically because it amused me that TKaM was on it
3.) When I was in elementary school, my mom suggested "Go Ask Alice" as a book I could read, and I actually was reading it more recently. I asked my younger sister if she'd read it, and apparently she had in middle school, when a teacher pulled her aside and asked her if our mom knew she was reading it
The woman who likely wrote Go Ask Alice was a hugely unethical therapist with some pretty questionable attitudes. Potentially a disgustingly exploitative and sensationalist person. The Wiki on the book does cover some of these issues if you are interested. I, personally, could no more read that book again than I could anything by JT LeRoy (that scam was so damn extensive and damaging). Pseudonyms are fine. Fraud and exploitation is not.
On Hoopla it's banned book week. I know it is in one county anyway.
I love Clockwork Orange! The Moloko Plus looks like a very good cocktail I want to try when I first read the book and when I saw the movie
So you want drugged milk?
Wasn't it basically milk with speed in it? That's how I always read it.
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 I thought it had morphine
@@heliocat3855 It had various drugs in it - vellocet was the drug of choice for Alex and his droogs because it sharpened them up for "ultra-violence". So I figured some derivative of speed (or maybe coke) seemed most likely. The milk was just a cover - milkbars were innocent places for teenagers to hang out when Burgess wrote the novel.
@@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 To be honest, it's been almost 20 years since I read the book and I haven't watched the movie in about 5 so you could be correct.
I can't believe that most of these entries on this list were the books in which most public schools around America would read through either History or English.
More of the thought police works.
Yeah I remember reading mein kampf in elementary
@@markquinn262 Yepp
I am pretty surprised that Harry Potter isn't on the list. There was such a huge uproar about it when it was coming out with mass burnings and bannings for promoting 'witchcraft'.
Apparently though there are some schools that have "trigger warnings" on the book
I actually have "And Tango Makes Three". It's super cute and I'm glad I bought it
It was a setup. There weren't any females available to those males. If there were, there would've been no "gay" ones.
Its a projection our social issues upon another species via anthropomorphizing animals. It's an inorganic and obvious propaganda piece for an agenda-driven purpose -- to force adult socio-seggsual beliefs on impressionable children before they reach the age of majority. It's classical "grooming". It is a well known and cynical ploy which the critical theorists deliberately planned and carried out.
A book discussing topics which are age-appropriate is one thing. This is not that kind of book. Seggsual politics aren't appropriate for children. In the current era it has become obvious that this agenda has been a political ploy to destroy society by undermining social cohesion.
I was once a dyed-in-the-wool Leftie. I was tolerant and accepting. I felt empathy for groups of people who didn't deserve their treatment. But my empathy and the empathy of others was merely a tool designed for the obliteration of the West. It was deliberate -- the planners wrote it down in excruciating detail and set it in motion with true believers which infiltrated the education system beginning in the 60s. This book is the direct offspring of that agenda. I once thought it was conspiracy theory but I only thought that because I was taught to believe it was a conspiracy theory.
I'm no longer a naive young man. I no longer believe in this secular religion which has poisoned the foundations of freedom in every level of education. It has created at least 2 generations of trained ingrates who are now attacking every institution which sustains freedom and the values of the West. It's only saving grace, is that their successes will be short lived. The socialists of today are far stupider than those of the past. Those socialists still possessed education system which could produce proper engineers. Ours does not.
If you can't produce engineers, then your control over society is unsustainable. If your citizens can't even judge simple cause and effect, you have no society, you have a loose arrangement of tribes which can't even keep the lights on. Tribes which live their lives through a madman's vision of a Utopia that never arrives but which requires the total destruction of freedom in any meaningful sense.
That book was merely a symptom of a broader problem. I'm sure the writers may have meant well, but it was a manipulated circumstance from the start. It wasn't natural. It was imposed by humans upon captive animals that had no choice but to follow instincts which are beyond their knowledge or control. It was an act of cruelty rewritten to distort it into a virtue signaling propaganda piece with an agenda to groom children into believing that the situation is natural when it's not. It's pathological.
To wit: when a penguin loses a chick, they'll often steal another chick from other penguins to replace it. In short order, they lose that paternal instinct for the alien chick and end up deleting that chick from life. Nobody wrote a short story about that natural behavior in penguins. They'd be as likely to terminate that chick as to raise it.
When any story is using well known child manipulation techniques to drive an agenda which -- in no way -- could benefit the child in the present or future, its nothing more than religious indoctrination -- at best. At worst, it's grooming them -- politicially and seggsually.
This tactic and its tacticians know exactly what they're doing and why. It has nothing to do with benefitting children, society, or humanity. It's a cynical political scheme which they loudly declared that they were going to deploy and then set about doing it over decades. They wrote about it and spoke about it everywhere as they were doing it. We can trace every modern tendril of this secular religious belief back to it's originators in an unbroken chain of influences.
This is why I left the Left. When their actions belied an agenda which was socially corrosive, I could no longer aid and abet that crime against culture -- which will soon become crimes against humanity.
I was once naive like many today. I once believed that they had the broader improvement mankind in mind. They don't. They sow divisions which are tearing the West apart. They don't want civil rights, they want civil revolutionaries. You can't get revolutionaries unless you destroy the societies in which people live. These people who invented C-R-T loathed civil rights as a direct threat to their power acquisition. They hate equality of opportunity because that keeps people of merit in positions that the woke want to occupy. The woke posses no merit -- which is why they want equality of outcome. That's just a synonym for "I'm incompetent or lazy but I'll still be rewarded as richly as those who actually deserve it by merit".
Just look at how your economy has been run. Do you think we possess any leaders of merit? Least of all at the national level? They don't want a functioning economy because functioning economies produce growth and sustainable outcomes. You can't produce revolutionaries in good times. To create revolutionaries you must create the worst of times and then blame them on a scapegoat so you can pull down the present system of meritocracy and replace it with those who are without merit who will complete the total devastation of society. They have no goal state other than "create revolution". There's no tomorrow, only a perpetual attempt at destruction in order to produce followers who will obey.
In the US, at least 50% of the people are vehemently opposed to these plans and will refuse to obey. As these plans become more visible to more people, that percentage will grow. I was merely ahead of the curve. I've always been politically ahead-of-the-curve.
I'm aware that I'm writing to someone who can't be convinced. I knew it from the start. But there are others for whom this will explain the absurd failures of leadership which seem like stupid mistakes but are anything but. They're strategies. Time tested and well known in the political sphere. They're tactics used by envious incompetent would-be elites to sustain power illegitimately because they could never sustain it on their own merit.
There are no accidents in global economies. There are no coincidences. There are no actors without selfish agendas.
The days of humanitarian leadership began to decay when more open voting was introduced to what should've remained a republic system. After all, almost nobody is so virtuous that they wouldn't exploit absolute and unaccountable power. The average person can't even manage their own finances with restraint. How could they understand and empower leaders who could rule with that understanding? Since those new voters pay no short term price for sustaining the republic, they guarantee bad decisions. When others bear the consequences for your bad decisions, you will continue to make worse decisions until your ability to make them is curtailed or you ruin your own ability to do so.
The only problem I had with 1984, was that when they try to limit thought through limiting language. taking the word "bad" away to try to take away it's meaning.. even in high school I was like... so I'll make up a new word that means bad? That's how language works, It evolves, we create new words for old ideas all the bloody time. I'm no linguist but that bugged the hell out of me. I Mean since I first read the book, We have created a ton of new words.
but big brother controls it and you cant just make up new words without approval right?
That is possible only due to freedom of speech. A right you no longer have during authoritarian government rule. Since linguistic rules are set by the government, even if you come up with new words, no one will understand you and by that time you would already have been tracked down.
No wonder reactionaries have been so attracted to the book and Orwell in general.
Like what Orwell calls newspeak is just language evolving.
Fifty Shades was banned in America too. A public library in Georgia refused to display or circulate the series when it was published
I love the movies and books.
...Why? I mean it seems shitty af but why ban it?
@Project Otaku people want to have banned books banned for all kinds of reason. I think this was because it was sexually explicit and didn't want it as a display where kids could see
I have no intention on reading AMERICAN PSYCHO
Just by hearing that dog yelping in pain in the movie was enough to traumatize me
Oh man. It was the only book I couldn't finish at uni . There's a scene with hamsters... oh man
I wish authors would stop including animal deaths/abuse
American Psycho made me throw up, but I wouldn’t ban it.
I’m surprised Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk hasn’t been banned (not that I’d want it to be). I mean, the narrator literally explains how to actually make explosives, and he threatens to shoot up his office. He also blows up a bunch of buildings. There’s also some sexual content, but that’s not all that uncommon nowadays. I know the whole thing is just commentary on materialism, capitalism, and toxic masculinity, but to the average idiot the whole thing might seem like an anarchist’s manifesto. It seems like a book school boards would jump right on and ban, and yet it was in my school library. It’s a great book, by the way, and coming from a guy who doesn’t like reading, that means something. Long story short, Fight Club just seemed really ban-able to me, and I’m surprised it hasn’t been banned.
EDIT: After a quick Google search, I have found out that Fight Club was once banned by a Texas school board. This doesn’t really change anything I’ve said, I just thought it’d be important to add this.
Boomers: “there is no hope for this generation”
Also boomers: *bans some of the best pieces literature*
Actually, the boomers wanted to read these books. It was their parents and grandparents who were banning them.
Im surprised William s. Burroughs wasn't mentioned. Junkie or naked lunch were definitely obscene books for their period. Challenged I believe as well.
The idea of censoring a book, movie or song is, to me, just like censoring a thought inside a person's mind. Who gives you the right to say what a person can or can't think?
The issue is there is always someone out there who is getting offended over something which hurts its feelings. Some books hurt Jews feelings, others hurt Muslim's feelings, others hurt black people's feelings. Eg: Satanic Verses is blasphemous and quite offensive to all Muslims just like other books are offensive to other people with different beliefs and races. The question is where do we draw the line?
In America we ban books but sell assault rifles to serial killers. Duh
The irony of Fahrenheit 451 being banned is insane. It should be required reading everywhere! I read it in 10th grade and have adored it ever since.
I’m Christian and hate Harry Potter, but I don’t consider it to be “satanic”…. I don’t believe it should be banned.
19:13 😂 this takes the cake
Whoa... hold on, no Slaughterhouse V?
Not surprised that fifty shades of grey was banned but I am surprised that it's not on your list
I'm not surprised that the book Mein Kampf was banned. He was truly sick.
No book should be banned
Knowledge should not be prohibited
We had Of Mice and Men as school reading.
Had to read number 15 as a sophomore in high school during fall 2011. Guess some novels have dark meanings.
I bet a large percentage of TV viewers who watch Big Brother have ever even heard of 1984.
This is true. If they did they would stop watching.
Just recently, eight months after this video was made, Salman Rushdie got shanked. It may have been a long while ago that a fatwa was put on him but clearly the danger still exists today.
While a lot of schools today have put many of these books on their reading lists, the only one I had in a high school class in the 1980s was Lord Of The Flies in my sophomore year. It was actually the first required reading book I enjoyed since having one every year since the seventh grade. When we had a "book of your choosing for a report" in my senior year, I chose my father's pre-Kubrick paperback of A Clockwork Orange (the cover had a motorcycle gang with a gunmoll, so obviously no one involved in the production had read the book...) and my sainted English teacher had no issue with that.
And yet read most of them in high school or middle school.
I'm glad I got to read some of these in school
Mein Kampf ist in Deutschland NICHT verboten. Nur der Nachdruck. Da geht's um Urheberrecht. Originale sind erlaubt, man darf sie nur nicht öffentlich Bewerben
"Mein Kampf" is NOT forbidden in Germany. Just the reprint. It's about copyright. Originals are allowed, you just can't advertise them publicly
Ist es nicht so das auch nicht originale erlaubt sind? ( sorry wenn ich falsch liege)
@@demi__gaming7685 Nein, Antiquitäten sind erlaubt.
@@AngelBarachiel okay danke für die augklärung
@@demi__gaming7685 man darf sie halt nicht öffentlich Bewerben oder zugänglich machen. Herr Solmeckke hat dazu ein gutes Video veröffentlicht.
I'm surprised William S Burroughs Naked Lunch wasn't on the list
I LOVE A Clockwork Orange!
Lolita is disturbing but brilliant all at once
Very interesting that 'The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion' didn't make the list! Henry Ford bought and distributed 500,000 copies! Still read in Japan and Saudi Arabia....
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first published in Imperial Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. It played a key part in popularizing belief in an international Jewish conspiracy.
I can't help but wonder, if Mark Chapman had said he was inspired into action by The Little Engine That Could, would they be trying to ban that one?
Very nice matter, thumbs up for the choice! To Watch and rewatch.
16:15
Correction: There are no good reasons to ban a book.
Are you sure? Suggested titles for books that I would look into banning: How to Create a Nuclear Bomb, The Paedophile's Guide, Kill All the [Insert Race Here].
@@Gmackematix I don’t care if the book is called How to Create a Nuclear Bomb Whose Fallout Turns Everyone Into Pedophiles that Specifically Rape to Death Babies of [Insert Race Here].
THOMAS C. STUHR
THE WORLD'S MOST UNDERGROUND AUTHOR. ☠❤
You better believe that his books get burnt.
Here's My Opinion the Difference about Banned Books:
Fahrenheit 451, A Diary of Young Girl, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby are the Most Important Books that Shouldn't Been Banned
A Farewell to Arms, The Color Purple, A Clockwork Orange, The Catcher in the Rye are the Most Banned Books Been Both Praised and Criticism
Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, And Tango Makes Three, Captain Underpants Series are the Most Challenged Books
Lady Chatterley's Love, The Picture if Dorian Grey, American Psycho, The Satanic Verse, Lolita, Fifty Shades of Grey are the Most Highly Controversial Books Been Banned
Ulysses, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, 1984, Brave New World are the Greatest Banned Books Ever.
Mein Kampf and The Anarchist Cookbook are the Books That Are Rightfully Banned
I had an amazing teacher for American lit back in high school. We started out reading Jonathon Edward’s “sinners in the hands of an angry God” and wound up with Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. Mrs Dyer, if you are alive today, I still love you.
I expected at least one of the Holy Trifecta on here: whether the Christian Bible, the Torah, or the Quran (or even the Kama Sutra), but it looks as though religious sex and atrocities are all very well.
@Taz C Through bread and circuses! That's how it's been done for centuries...
Reading is the best way to relax
Still amazing how many of these I've read without wrecking my life.
Euel Arden's novel Down Here in the Warmth, was banned for a while - but its back out. i think its the last great novel.
Someone from the uk here, we read of mice and men when I was in year 9 (around 13 years old) the book has now been changed to cinderella is dead.
Books forever📚📚📚
No banned no burning
I remember William Burroughs naked lunch being pretty controversial… and Hubert Shelby junior’s last exit to Brooklyn- both great books. Portnoy’s complaint by Philip Roth too… Most of these on u list r classics! American psycho is one of my favourite books, tho I grant u it’s not for everyone! Anyway, interesting list - thanks
Captain Underpants as an honarble mentioned caught me off guard.
10 of these are read by NYS students. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is read in 7th grade where I live.
Honestly I detested To Kill A Mocking Bird, but would never have it banned. Also if in school we hadn’t read The Diary Of Anne Frank I would’ve never known this horrible event took place, cuz we sure as hell didn’t hear much about the holocaust in American schools when I was growing up. I’ve always been fascinated by historical events and my parents that wasn’t really their thing so after reading The Diary Of Anne Frank I went searching for more stories about the holocaust and am disgusted by people who can’t be bothered by our history or believe it was a hoax.
Raise your hand if you read these in high school 🖐
I read lord of the flies
Ok I don’t think books should be banned or burned but I do think certain book DO NOT belong in public schools ( k- gr 8) for young children to have access to, for me just it’s a morality and innocence thing. Even high school is one thing, if a teen wants a certain book they can go to the public library
Woman: May I kiss the hand that wrote _Ulysses?_
Joyce: No, it’s done many other things.
As someone who read Mein Kampf bc its not banned, advertising is not allowed. I have to say Mein Kampf is really a book what shows how messed up thoughts that person had..... it's just really....messed up
I've always been curious, I'm always intrigued to look into the mind and thought process of someone like that. Especially someone so infamous. I understand why it's probably a good idea to not have it widely available to the public, but I'm glad it's still available for people who want to study it.
Well we all knew he was a very sick man.
I rather read Vampre books, which is Stephen King and we had Stephen King books in the library
Top 10 90's live action kid's shows that should come back on DVD, number 1: Eerie Indiana, that DVD release from the early 2000's needs an update. And I don't see Rage from Stephen King
"a school in Georgia wanted to ban it for being a real downer"
Yeah no shit it's a real downer, it's about the Holocaust! I've read the book and yeah it's not an easy read, but it is an important one
during McCarthyist Americ, Frank L Balm Wizard of Oz was band because descriptions of Muchkin society were considered to be Communist.
PLEASE DO A TOP TEN MATT DILLON MOVIES LIST!????
suggest it on there website
Why would 50 Shades of Softcore bore be banned?
Even the worst of books deserve preservation. Even atrocious tomes like _Mein Kampf,_ _The Turner Diaries_ and _120 Days of Sodom_ deserve to be kept alive to show the countless facets of the human condition. There is only _one_ book that deserves to be destroyed entirely in my eyes: _To Train Up A Child_ by Michael Pearl. Seriously - it is a _literal child abuse manual._
I read Catcher in the Rye in high school and actually enjoyed it!
I didn't, but I don't want it banned at all!
Catcher in the Rye was seminal to my growing up.
Humans are so weird… “if I don’t like or agree with something then everyone should feel that way!!!”
People fear what they don't understand
I have the diary of anne frank
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo which have been banned in the Philippines under Spanish rule in 1887, somehow indirectly influenced The Philippine Revolution of independence from the Spanish Empire, books really are powerful.
My thoughts on this list:
20. Read this in 8th grade. I hated this concept.
19 Studied the Holocaust in 7th grade. This book was very powerful.
17. I thought this book was alright.
15. I read this book in 9th grade and hated it. Too violent for me.
14. Read this book in 9th grade. Very powerful.
13. I read this book it was a few years ago. I can understand why it was banned.
Honorable Mentions
3. I read this book in college. Not one of my favorites.
My great grandfather smuggled a first edition of Ulysses from Paris in the 1920’s.
I legit just read anne frank for a school thing
"They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em."
--- RAtM
(Btw I've done content for lots of these books, for anyone who's interested.)
Someone has a great taste in music my friend. I raise my glass to you!
Also “The Outsiders”
I just started reading this book in English class and I have to say it’s quite good 👍
Oh
A Clockwork Orange is on my book shelf for sure
Next to American Psycho
But with 5he arrival of Ebooks and Audible, Book ---reading is now encourage more than ever.😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍
I've read them all - I was a Literature major for my first degree. Mein Kampf is utterly boring, dry and the rantings of an unhinged psyche. Fifty Shades of Gray is voyeuristic, with no literary merit and seeking a response and the schoolboy readership and is the only text I don't have on my bookshelves. Crap is crap, after all.
I remember we were supposed to read Fahrenheit 451 in my senior year of high school but it was swapped out for I don’t remember which book. I do remember we read The Postman Always Rings Twice, A Streetcar Named Desire and Lord of the Flies in that year so probably one of those. I guess the ban got to it first?? Idk
The funny part about Nineteen-Eighty Four: IT WAS PUBLISHED IN 1949 AND BANNED IN IT'S TITLE YEAR
Hey I was just recommending a video and it would be every animated Disney movie ranked can you do that?
1984 was actually about authoritarianism not just Stalinism
im from Mississippi. graduated in'93. and we read To Kill a MockingBird in 10th grade. and im surprised it was ban in MS. im curious to know where
Tried reading Catcher in the Rye, just couldn't get through it because Holden just seemed to be insufferable
I just couldn't finish it without constantly thinking about killing John Lennon
@@nanohernandez6973 I suppose it's not very common knowledge that Lennon just happened to be one of many potential targets on a list. His luck simply ran dry.
Me too. His holier than thou attitude was just unbearable
'Because it's a real downer hu huh hu huh'
- Principal Butt-Head
I’ve read all of these books. Some, like Ulysses, were hard going, but well worth it.
Can you do a versus video between Marvel's Alistair Smythe the Ultimate Spider and Doctor Octopus?
My Honors Sophomore English class read three of these. I loved that class.
Fifty Shades should be banned just because it's a badly written piece of crap.
If we followed that line of thought through, though, there'd be considerably less left on our (remaining) bookstores' shelves. There's a LOT of badly written pieces of crap out there 😀
Even if books that talk about the holocaust or unconfortable subjects (Which are sad subjects) they should not be banned because its controversal. We should learn from our history instead of forgetting about it. If you dont like a book, just dont read it.
Suggestion: Top 10 best Batman-inspired characters of all time.
"bondage for wine moms"
women will be against pornographic images but apparently reading it (50 shades) is ok.
Nobody has the right to tell you what books you can and can’t read if you don’t like a book or you find it offensive just don’t read it don’t ban it just because you don’t agree with the message that’s being portrayed in that book You can’t have it both ways. If you banned one because just one person had a problem with them, you have to ban all books