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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
I think it's awesome--what better way to drive kids to read great books than to publicly and loudly declare they shouldn't read them?
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My mother often told about a particular poetry book (Maria Lécina, by J.W.F. Werumeus Buning), that used to be 'on the index' of books banned by the catholic church (the book is about a whore).
My mother went to a catholic school, and their Dutch' teacher, a nun, secretly advised her pupils to search for the book in public libraries (it wasn't in the school library of course), because it was among the finest contemporary (contemporary at that time) poetry...
Of course every single girl in her class read the book... not because it was fine poetry, but because the book was 'indexed'...