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... · 07-25-2006, 11:29 AM

http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedboo...frequently.htm

http://www.marshall.edu/LIBRARY/bann...eindex2005.asp

I'm a librarian. In library school they drill into your head about the dangers/effects of banning books. It's always been rather ironic that some of the classics and wildly popular books are near the top. huck fin and harry potter. Usualy whatever's popular for kids is targeted for bans Tons of award winning books are challanged constantly. The most ironic thing is that a gigantic chunk of banned/challanged books are kids books, and most of the banned/challanged books are due to language.

The book Fallen Angels for instance is about some young men in vietnam shooting VC, getting killed etc. At one point a woman give a soldier a baby with a land mine attached to it which blows up the baby and the soldier who rushed to grab it. Later two of the main characters (who are teenagers) kill a vietnamese soldier in a fox hole, then drag the dead guys body into the hole on top of them, and then hide untill nightfall with the bleeding corpse. The most common reason it's banned? Profanity and racial slurs.

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... Avatar won't work. Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: ... Posts: 1,746 +2 Internets	http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedboo...frequently.htm http://www.marshall.edu/LIBRARY/bann...eindex2005.asp I'm a librarian. In library school they drill into your head about the dangers/effects of banning books. It's always been rather ironic that some of the classics and wildly popular books are near the top. huck fin and harry potter. Usualy whatever's popular for kids is targeted for bans Tons of award winning books are challanged constantly. The most ironic thing is that a gigantic chunk of banned/challanged books are kids books, and most of the banned/challanged books are due to language. The book Fallen Angels for instance is about some young men in vietnam shooting VC, getting killed etc. At one point a woman give a soldier a baby with a land mine attached to it which blows up the baby and the soldier who rushed to grab it. Later two of the main characters (who are teenagers) kill a vietnamese soldier in a fox hole, then drag the dead guys body into the hole on top of them, and then hide untill nightfall with the bleeding corpse. The most common reason it's banned? Profanity and racial slurs.