Gambit Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century "Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." —1984 [1949] George Orwell "It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road." —The Catcher in the Rye [1951] J.D. Salinger "The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!" —Fahrenheit 451 [1953] Ray Bradbury "Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'" —The Grapes of Wrath [1939] John Steinbeck "Ravished! How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions." —Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928] D. H. Lawrence "The Planet drifts to random insect doom . . ." —Naked Lunch [1959] William S. Burroughs "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names." —Slaughterhouse-Five [1969] Kurt Vonnegut "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." —To Kill a Mockingbird [1960] Harper Lee "I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul." —Tropic of Cancer [1934] Henry Miller "History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." —Ulysses [1922] James Joyce http://alternativereel.com/cult-fiction/Banned_Books.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambit Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 Why the hell were 1984, Ulysees or Catcher in the Rye ever banned?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predator_05 Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 I have read two of those - Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird (this book was boring as f*ck, BTW). Sure, Holden Caulfield in Catcher uses lots of swearwords, but other than that there was nothing inflammatory in it's content. I have no clue why TKAM is on there. Maybe people were easily offended back then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorah_pindu Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Why the hell were 1984' date=' Ulysees or Catcher in the Rye ever banned?![/quote'] The Catcher in the Rye met with a hell of a lot of controversy back in the day. It is the most banned book in America, yet also the most taught in school. People didnt like the dystopian/nihilist themes, and thought it was a bad influence. Reagan's attempted assasin, Lennon's assasin, and Charles Manson were fans. I think Satanic Verses should be on the list too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludhianvi Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 1984 and To Kill a Mocking Bird are part of the high school curriculum now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX_1138 Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 I kid you not, this is absolutely true: Recently in a midwestern county (do not know which one and dont feel like researching), parents are moving to have Fahrenheit 451 banned from school. why? well they feel that the book, in which at one junction the protagonist burns a bible, has been deemed to be too offensive (!) and must hence, be banned. trust american christians to be the biggest nuts on this planet. religion, where reason fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorah_pindu Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 trust american christians to be the biggest nuts on this planet. religion, where reason fails. They will never succeed legally at least. In comparison, India has banned, amongst other things: The Satanic Verses, a Shivaji biography, the Da Vinci Code (or the film at least), etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 u got a point there....... I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dada_rocks Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 George Orwell ki koi book koi kyun ban kara bhai.:giggle: comes of as nice guy . Btw he was born in bihar champaran district to be precise in Motihari Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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