The American Library Association promotes Banned Books Week to promote awareness of intellectual freedom and anti-censorship.
2006-09-08 05:50:01 · 13 answers · asked by moreta1 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Thanks for pointing this out. I checked out the list of 100 most challenged books from 1990 - 2000 (see the link below) and I've already read about 25% of them. In fact, I read several as school assignments (To Kill a Mockingbird, A Day No Pigs Would Die, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Outsiders, Of Mice and Men). The one that most baffles me is A Light in the Attic, by Shel Silverstein.
I think I'll pick up a copy of The Handmaiden's Tale, and then I'll release it (and whatever other challenged books I have) "into the wild" for someone else to read. Check out BookCrossing if you don't know what I'm talking about.
2006-09-08 15:45:08 · answer #1 · answered by swbiblio 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'll probably finish reading The Fountainhead.
Every week should be Banned Books Week!
2006-09-08 11:07:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By going to Barnes & Noble or Amazon and buying as many books that I can and after a long day at work appeasing clients, I will spend some time relaxing with these great pieces of literature. I can't wait.
2006-09-08 09:11:53 · answer #3 · answered by tealover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By going to the Squirrel Hill Pittsburgh Barnes and Noble and ordering a copy of the Book of Legal Highs under an assumed name -- not because I even want it; just because I can raise flags without getting caught. ^_^
(God I love that store)
2006-09-08 05:55:35 · answer #4 · answered by Em 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably by reading a banned book!
2006-09-08 05:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by azrael505 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll spend some time looking for books that are "banned" and I'll try to find a way to buy them ;-)
2006-09-08 11:10:19 · answer #6 · answered by Julie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll be reading Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
2006-09-08 06:28:04 · answer #7 · answered by LA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for reminding me of this event. Probably 'The Turner Diaries' so I can understand what in that book inspires racial supremacists so much, like Tim McVeigh. He was into that book, I believe. John Mark Karr would love 'Lolita' by Nabakov. Man that book disturbed me.
2006-09-08 06:07:01 · answer #8 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy copies of the Anarchist's Cookbook!
(is that banned these days?)
2006-09-08 06:32:00 · answer #9 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by reading Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
2006-09-08 06:09:10 · answer #10 · answered by vick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋