Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century, page 4

reply to post by LiveForever8

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I don't understand, I've read every single book here, and so have my children....Who banned these books????

reply to post by LiveForever8

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I'm a lover of books and a good story. I find the thought of censoring a book because it runs counter to someone's beliefs or "morals" disturbing, to say the least. There are plenty of books proliferating ideas that I do not like or agree with but I don't want the works censored.
Censorship, in this regard, is even more bothersome as it takes more work to read a book than to watch tv. You must obtain a book and then read it which requires more time. If you don't like the book don't read it.
I'm not even sure why people feel it is their duty or it is the right thing to have a book censored.

Originally posted by LadySkadi
reply to post by LiveForever8

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Wow! 8 of the 10 were mandatory reading in my high school English classes. I cannot believe this list... Yes, I would say there is an agenda at work, who's though and why are the questions...



[edit on 26-10-2009 by LadySkadi]

Stunned at that list! I too, read most of them in high school as part of our English class.

reply to post by LiveForever8

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No book should ever be banned they stretch and inform the mind.

One of my favourites is The History of Juliette by the Marquis de Sade and banned in Britain until 1983.


An interesting list of banned books by various countries -

en.wikipedia.org...

reply to post by odyseusz

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(this isn't aimed at you, it's just a response to "Mien Kampf")

A little over a year ago, I was in a Half-Price Books (for those of you who don't know what a Half-Price Books is/don't live in the US, the stores basically sell books, movies, CDs, and other things at half price, just like the name suggests), and I came across a first edition of "Mien Kampf," in the antique section. It was in German, printed in Germany, everything. They had it listed at $75. I just so happened to have a 1/2 off coupon, and there was a sale that weekend for an extra 10% off your purchase. I sat there for ten minutes, debating with myself about if I wanted to spend the money or not. I do not speak any German, nor do I know any one who does, and I've never had the desire to read "Mien Kampf," but I was standing in front of an original copy of one of the most challenged books of the last half of the twentieth century. All that separated the two of us was a flimsy glass case.

The entire time I was staring at it, all I could think about was everything that this single book, something that was mere ink and paper, had caused in just that last 70 or so years. All I could think about was who might have read that copy, and how it managed to make it's way to a random Half-Price Books in Fort Worth, Texas. How this one book (that isn't even that long) had changed so many lives, how it had been read by so many people, how it had become so famous. My point is that I wanted to buy it just because of all of the controversy around it, and the impact that it had on history. Sure, I would have probably felt weird telling people that I had a really old copy in my book section, but I think it would have been worth it.

In the end, I didn't buy it.

I really wish I would have.

reply to post by mmiichael

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The little libraries here don't ever really seem to have many bums (the ladies that work the counter are too b****y, anyways), but I do see them in the larger ones, like the one downtown. For the most part, they tend to just hang out around the entrance, and generally keep to themselves.

I haven't seen any in the bookstores, or at least any that are obvious bums.

And yes, I do go to and use the library (and I'm under 25). I always look at the Conspiracy Theory and History books, not too many people are in those sections.

I've got a good banned book.. This one isn't even allowed to be discussed at ATS.

"The Sacred Mushroom and The Cross"



" In 1953 John Marco Allegro was invited to become the first British representative on the international team working on the recently discovered Dead Sea Scrolls in Jordan. The following year he was appointed assistant lecturer in Comparative Semitic Philology at Manchester, and held a succession of lectureships there until he resigned in 1970 to become a full-time writer. In 1961 he was made Honorary Adviser on the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Jordanian government.

Allegro's thirteen books include The Dead Sea Scrolls (1956), The Treasure of the Copper Scroll (1960), The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth (1979) as well as Discoveries in the Judaean Desert of Jordan vol. V (1968) and articles in academic journals such as the Journal of Biblical Literature, Palestine Exploration Quarterly and Journal of Semitic Studies [1], and in the popular press.

It is suggested that Allegro believed the Dead Sea Scrolls raised issues that concerned everyone. It wasn't just a matter of dusty manuscripts and disputed translations. Rather, the story of the scrolls raised questions about freedom of access to evidence, freedom of speech, and freedom to challenge orthodox religious views. Allegro believed that through understanding the origins of religion people could be freed from its bonds to think for themselves and take responsibility for their own judgments." - Wiki

Ironic.. A man that fought for "free access to evidence for all" would have his thoughts banned from a website that supposedly "Rallies against the status-quo"..

Ironic.. and sad..

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