[kj] OT - List of books Sarah Palin wanted banned

[Bette Dillinger]

Actually (I can't even write that word without thinking of Coleman's love of it.....lol) PC bullshit by "lefties" had nothing to do with the push to ban Huckleberry Finn.  There is a great book called "One Hundred Banned Books", which talks about the fights the book has had since its publication.  Check that book out for the really detailed description of the fights school districts had had with the book.  Quite remarkable.
 
Found a light summary that explains it, but I recommend the above book for real references and details:
 
"In 1885, Concord Public Library banned the book. Mark Twain wrote to Charles Webster on March 18, 1885: "The Committee of the Public Library of Concord, Mass., have given us a rattling tip-top puff which will go into every paper in the country. They have expelled Huck from their library as 'trash and suitable only for the slums.' That will sell 25,000 copies for us sure." In 1902, the Brooklyn Public Library banned The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with the statement that "Huck not only itched but he scratched," and that he said "sweat" when he should have said "perspiration.""
 
Suitable for the slums and using "sweat" instead of "perspiration"........sounds like today's 
concretized thinking from a certain faction.
 
Bette Dillinger



Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:28:00 -0400From: killingjoke at theimmortalfool.comTo: gathering at misera.netSubject: Re: [kj] OT - List of books Sarah Palin wanted bannedOne last note LB...Going through the list I did notice one book that's been banned repeatedly.Huck Finn...Unfortunately it was the left wing PC liberals who decided to ban it. :((Especially from HS curriculum)Kinda scary huh?Cheers,MeAt 03:18 PM 9/6/2008, LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:
Check this one out... ~LB  > Here is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to have> banned from the> Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes> of the Library> Board. When she was unsuccessful at having these books> banned, she tried to> have the librarian fired.> > As many of you will notice, it is a hit parade for book> burners.> > A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess>   A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle>   Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden>   As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner>   Blubber by Judy Blume>   Brave New World by Aldous Huxley>   Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson>   Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer>   Carrie by Stephen King>   Catch-22 by Joseph Heller>   Christine by Stephen King>   Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau>   Cujo by Stephen King>   Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen>   Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite>   Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck>   Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller>   Decameron by Boccaccio>   East of Eden by John Steinbeck>   Fallen Angels by Walter Myers>   Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John> Cleland>   Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes>   Forever by Judy Blume>   Grendel by John Champlin Gardner>   Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam>   Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling>   Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling>   Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling>   Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling>   Have to Go by Robert Munsch>   Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman>   How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell>   Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain>   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou>   Impressions edited by Jack Booth>   In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak>   It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein>   James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl>   Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence>   Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman>   Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm>   Lord of the Flies by William Golding>   Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein>   Lysistrata by Aristophanes>   More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz>   My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and> Christopher Collier>   My House by Nikki Giovanni>   My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara>   Night Chills by Dean Koontz>   Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck>   On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer>   One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander> Solzhenitsyn>   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey>   One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez>   Ordinary People by Judith Guest>   Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health> Collective>   Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy>   Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl>   Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin> Schwartz>   Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz>   Separate Peace by John Knowles>   Silas Marner by George Eliot>   Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.>   Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs>   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain>   The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain>   The Bastard by John Jakes>   The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger>   The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier>   The Color Purple by Alice Walker>   The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth>   The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs>   The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck>   The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson>   The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood>   The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder>   The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks>   The Living Bible by William C. Bower>   The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare>   The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles> Wibbelsman>   The Pigman by Paul Zindel>   The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders>   The Shining by Stephen King>   The Witches by Roald Dahl>   The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder>   Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume>   To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee>   Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare>   Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the> Merriam-Webster>   Editorial Staff>   Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the> Halloween>   Symbols by Edna Barth      

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