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Banned Book Week!
The Hunger Games and The Giver are banned books?!
That they are. Only in some schools and cities/countries. It's not like it's impossible to find/read them.
Wow. I've read both of them, and they were really good!
I've read The Giver and I think any ten year old would be fine with reading it O.O and the Hunger Games... there's a LOT worse.
I read the Giver when I was eight I think. I'm not sure why it's banned.
I can understand why some overly religious people may ban The Hunger Games, but I don't agree with the decision to actually ban books.
fREADom. Please. We have a right to print what we would like to print.
I've read many of these books.
I can understand why some overly religious people may ban The Hunger Games, but I don't agree with the decision to actually ban books.
fREADom. Please. We have a right to print what we would like to print.
I've read many of these books.
Some Lauren Myracle books are banned. I think her Internet Girls series, "ttyl," "ttfn," and "l8r g8r."
In my old school Harry Potter was banned...we needed permission from a teacher to even have it in school...
I think so, Meiyu because they cover a lot of mature topics, and stuff. >.<
I've abandoned The Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby, read Harry Potter, Hunger Games....I'm pretty sure I've come across the Giver, and my brother's read Captain Underpants.
I've not gotten around to reading the Catcher in the Rye, I've just gotten The great Gatsby from the library, and I've read The Hunger Games, The Giver, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Harry Potter and Looking for Alaska. I've read Captain Underpants with a kid I was babysitting. I read it aloud to him.
I hate the idea of people banning books. Just because of sex? Sex is a thing, it's always going to be a thing, it created you, so why be shy about it. Art is about expressing yourself. You shouldn't ban a book because of sex, because it is an essential part of life when you get to a certain age!
I hate the idea of people banning books. Just because of sex? Sex is a thing, it's always going to be a thing, it created you, so why be shy about it. Art is about expressing yourself. You shouldn't ban a book because of sex, because it is an essential part of life when you get to a certain age!
People don't like Harry Potter because of magic, I guess. There's this one kid in my class who likes the atlas (of all books) more than Harry Potter.
Yeah, it's mostly for people who are overly religious and believe Harry Potter leads to Paganism. My grandmother thinks that I'm a child of the devil because I'm an HP fan. xD
I know. The atlas, over Harry Potter. He's an idiot with no imagination or creativity.
He had also dissed The Fault in Our Stars, LotR, Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, The Book Thief, A Wrinkle in Time, even The Little Prince!
Wow Dx I haven't read all of those, but still!!!
THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, LOTR, HUNGER GAMES, PERCY JACKSON, BOOK THIEF AND THE. LITTLE. PRINCE?
WHO THE FRICK DOES HE THINK HE IS? I AM BEATING HIM WITH A ROCK!
WHO THE FRICK DOES HE THINK HE IS? I AM BEATING HIM WITH A ROCK!
Let me just say if he had a Goodreads, every book on his favourite shelf would be an atlas.
Delaney wrote: "Yeah, it's mostly for people who are overly religious and believe Harry Potter leads to Paganism. My grandmother thinks that I'm a child of the devil because I'm an HP fan. xD"
My family is religious, but they don't mind me being a Potterhead. Their main problem is fangirling, not magic.
My family is religious, but they don't mind me being a Potterhead. Their main problem is fangirling, not magic.
He is obsessed with the atlas. He started the atlas fandom. He's memorized the freaking atlas!
LUCKY DUCKY M~THE INSANE DUCKY~ wrote: "Shahdia wrote: "He had also dissed The Fault in Our Stars, LotR, Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, The Book Thief, A Wrinkle in Time, even The Little Prince!"
THE LITTLE PRINCE?! WHOA WHOA WHOA HE DISS..."
He's never even read them! He just thinks any book I read is 'ridunkulus'. WHICH ISN'T EVEN A WORD!
THE LITTLE PRINCE?! WHOA WHOA WHOA HE DISS..."
He's never even read them! He just thinks any book I read is 'ridunkulus'. WHICH ISN'T EVEN A WORD!
IF HE HAD A TUMBLR HIS USERNAME WOULD BE IAMOBSESSEDWITHTHEATLAS AND EVERY POST WOULD BE TAGGED ATLAS!
That's actually insane. Harry Potter is fantastic! The atlas isn't even a novel!
Shahdia wrote: "He had also dissed The Fault in Our Stars, LotR, Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, The Book Thief, A Wrinkle in Time, even The Little Prince!"
NO.
Just...NO.
This is like racial discrimination for books.
NO.
Just...NO.
This is like racial discrimination for books.
Shahdia wrote: "I love Goodreads."
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, me too.
The fricking atlas. Wow. I just...I just can't.
I've read practically every book on that list, that is incredibly shocking! I'll never understand people and why they ban books, new flash, don't like it, don't read it!(An atlas? Woooooooow)
Hunger Games and Harry Potter are good reads.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby are all fan-tablous books. I read them when I was young and i still love to re-read them. I don't believe that books should be banned. If there is a book you feel that should not be read, then don't read it, but don't ban the book.
Isn't the tale of two cities banned too?
Why are the Harry Potter books banned? O_O
From what I have been told all the majic use!
I've read almost all of those. I can see Looking For Alaska and THG banned, but only in elementary schools... I don't think I would want my eight year old brother reading them, but they're perfectly appropriate for middle school+.
Delaney wrote: "It's banned book week!!Some banned books include:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
The Hunger Games
The Giver
[book:My Sister's Keep..."
Believe it or not, I don't think I've read any of those! :O And I didn't even know they were banned. XD I do want to read "To Kill A Mockingbird" though.
To Kill A Mockingbird was an amazing book :D
I love To Kill A Mocking Bird. In my school none of these are banned. And why is Captain Underpants banned?
I've read almost all those! I think that's really strange that some of the Harry Potter books are banned. That's so weird!
I don't know . . .
Why TKAM? That's a friggin classic. I would only understand it being banned if it was because it would be a challenging read for, like, sixth grade and under.
Some Christians don't like it because it has magic in it. Most of us don't care and love the books. My family and I included.
To Kill A Mockingbird? That has no magic in it...
To Kill A Mockingbird? That has no magic in it...
To Kill A Mockingbird? That has no magic in it...
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Some banned books include:
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
The Hunger Games
The Giver
My Sister's Keeper
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Looking for Alaska
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Great Gatsby
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Do you know of any others? Have you read any of these books? What is your opinion on banning books?
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Read a banned book this week!