It's Banned Books week, folks (September 27th - October 5th). Some of the most creative and exciting books written in the past 100 years were banned by people who thought they were too dangerous. Books. Dangerous. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was actually burned by the East St Louis Library in 1939. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was banned in 1972 in Ohio. The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway was banned in Boston in 1930. Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut was burned in North Dakota in 1973. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings was banned in New Mexico in 2001. Apparently, it's Satanic. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was banned. "When?" you ask, "in 1966, when it was published?" Nope. In 2000, in Savannah, Georgia. Gone with the Wind. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A Farewell to Arms. The Invisible Man. All banned. Read one of them this week.
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Let's not forget Sarah Palin called up her local librarian in Wasilla to find out how she could go about banning books. Ah, good times. I bet she would have loved to ban all books but the bible!
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