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Originally Posted by Lutraa
And in a related story, the number of patrons who had these titles on hold at Highland Park's public library has dropped back to normal after hitting all-time highs.
If you want to make young people curious about ideas, just try banning them. Free people read freely.
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That's what I was just thinking. Stephen King wrote about a book once that was banned from a school. The book was titled "Steelworks" or "Steelworkers" or something like that. A fiction novel about the men who work in that field. A high School kid checked it out of the school library. His mother read through part of the book, noted the language used (of the sort men in that field use according to Mr. King) and took it to the school board. The book was pulled (at least for a bit) but before it was a long list of checkouts took place. Before the school board got involved only one person had checked the book out. The student whose mother started the whole thing.
