Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Fri, 16 May 2025 21:02:32 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:02:31 -0800, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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When I first read /The Hunger Games/, I read it lickity-split and then
mistook subconscious items I had retained without realing it for
inferences I was making. When I read it the second time, I also reread
it the third time because I had to slow myself down practically every
chapter and reread it again, much more slowly. There is a /lot/ of
background info that Katniss, who is telling the story in first-person
present, provides.

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Besides of course her age was there any reason at all to ban Hunger
Games? I mean there was plenty of stuff at least as bad in 1984 which
was not to be knowledge ever banned and mercifully by the time I read
it (or more accurately Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell never allowed use
of the number as a title) we knew the concept of an anti-utopia quite
well.

When the film came out, a lot of the alt-right complained because it
had "them" (African-American characters) in it.

Apparently, they had loved the books as depicting an all-white
alt-right world. In which white folks slaughter white children in the
Arena every year. Which makes you wonder why they would consider that
an acceptable thing to do.

Depending on who did the banning, that might have been a factor.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"