Mine is Brave New World. I was curious what the majority of people preferred in terms of banned/classic books.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Not entirely sure which have been banned and which not.
I'm currently reading (among other things) 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. I must say that despite the creative degeneracy involved, there are only so many things one can do with an orifice.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Hands down.
coming from a private school i get confused with what is banned or not ha but if A Brave New World is banned im gonna have to go with it..that book along with 1984 sparked my interest in novels..also Les Mis ha
EricWojo: That's my second favorite! Love it. It's so brilliant on so many levels.
My favorite banned book would be 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding.
American Psycho of course by you know who.
Banned as in by whom? cus I remember reading Lord of the Flies, 1984 AND Brave New World for school lol... (And I went to a public school... must be different up here in the Great White North O_o)
120 Days of Sodom is... interesting, to say the least lol...
@Kate: Probably communist countries that don't like books or something :/
@jacks damn commies!
@Kate: agreed about 120 Days of Sodom - I'm only reading it in fits and spurts, because 120 days is a long stretch.
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Probably the best book I've ever read, with some of the best writing advice: Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
*Johnny Got His Gun* by Dalton Trumbo :) it is one of the few to be officially banned by the us gov't (during ww II). then trumbo was blacklisted when the commie scare erupted in the fifties. usually it is a public library or school system that does the banning. sadly ridiculous, really.
Huck Finn got banned over summer in Georgia??? the fuck?
I heard Slaughterhouse-5 was banned recently, so I'm going with that.
Brave New World is right up there as well.
Miller's Tropics
Lolita, 1984, Brave New World, and Lord of the Flies.
I love Lolita, been meaning to re-read that one a lot lately, and in the right mood I can plow through Sade like so many well-endowed gardeners have done throughout his stories... I thought Justine was one of his more interesting stories, though.
Naked Lunch by Burroughs
@Meat Seeker - I gave up on 120 Days of Sodom, but I did get through Justine some years back.
Here's the wiki list of banned books - I'm going with The Satanic Verses (although it's not my favourite Rushdie)
That's a pretty crazy list, considering how many of them are considered important enough to teach in public school now.
I think it's so weird that some countries have rating systems, too. Like the movies, that's so weird to me. I remember reading tons of gore, sex and other assorted debauchery before I was in middle school. No one ever batted an eye at the library when I'd take out the craziest shit I could find. Of course, maybe I can use that as my excuse for being such an upstanding citizen...
@postpomo, I still haven't tackled 120 Days of Sodom, I started Juliette a while ago, but I'm not enjoying it as much as Justine.
Yeah, what was odd to me was that the majority of the books I had read on that list were ones I was required to read in school. Not sure what this says about society, if anything.
I don't think it's a statement on society as much as it is a statement on lawmakers or lobbyists. Most people who don't like something might bitch about it, keep it away from their kids or whatever, but are unlikely to put the time and energy into banning something.
Our laws here aren't too bad for that kind of thing, but when it comes to defining "pornography" it's a little too vague - as it is in other places, so all kinds of stuff gets stopped at the border, even if it is legitimate pornography (as opposed to violent porn, child porn, etc...)
