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Biography/Memoir | 12 | 41.38% | |
Mobileread Authors | 10 | 34.48% | |
Short Stories | 11 | 37.93% | |
Banned or Challenged Books | 17 | 58.62% | |
Free-For-All | 11 | 37.93% | |
Young Adult | 8 | 27.59% | |
Modern Fiction | 6 | 20.69% | |
Lottery (version 3) | 5 | 17.24% | |
Fantasy | 8 | 27.59% | |
Humor | 7 | 24.14% | |
Books by Japanese authors | 6 | 20.69% | |
Historical Fiction | 7 | 24.14% | |
MobileRead Classic (must be in our Library and at least 50 years old) | 10 | 34.48% | |
First Book in a Series | 5 | 17.24% | |
Philosophy | 10 | 34.48% | |
Foreign (books originally written in a language other than English) | 9 | 31.03% | |
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02-25-2013, 08:14 AM | #16 |
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02-25-2013, 08:26 AM | #17 | |
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^I think we will end up getting a nice free-for-all list out of challenged books and I think it will be a lot of fun gleaning lists for ideas. Based on those.
Already, the book two book clubs have read at least two that I know of. Slaughterhouse-Five and Lolita. There are some crazy brilliant writers and titles on the list: The Sun Also Rises, The Grapes of Wrath, Rabbit, Run, The Handmaid's Tale, Beloved, As I Lay Dying Quote:
Allen Ginsberg's Howl looks interesting considering he went to trial for obscenity. In case no one has posted this link yet or mentioned it: ALA's page on banned and challenged books |
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02-25-2013, 08:54 AM | #19 |
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Third time lucky?
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02-25-2013, 09:31 AM | #20 |
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D.H. Lawrence has had several books banned and would certainly be eligible for this category.
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02-25-2013, 02:30 PM | #21 |
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02-25-2013, 02:41 PM | #22 |
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^I really liked some portions of Ulysses, but it is very long and the first hundred or so pages were quite a slog when I read it.
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02-25-2013, 03:29 PM | #23 | |
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Well the people at FOX News were recently claiming that The Lorax was "demonizing the 1% and espousing green energy policies." So I guess it all evens out in the end. To me Dr Suess was just a genius at writing books that would hold children's interest while teaching them to read. |
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02-28-2013, 05:51 PM | #26 |
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Banned or Challenged Books it is. The October category nominations will be up shortly.
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02-28-2013, 05:55 PM | #27 |
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October's thread is up.
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