Banned Book Recommendation Thread

[Tallifer]

Banned by whom? Gina Carano cancellers or Trumpist slavery apologists? <wink>

 

[Morrus]

Banned by whom? Gina Carano cancellers or Trumpist slavery apologists? <wink>

OK, bored of moderating you now. I have other things to do. Time to leave.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm not aware of books being banned around me.

I did attend a K-12 parochial system that did not put just anything in the grade school libraries. Books with 'heavy subject matter' landed in the high school library. Books that encouraged disrespectful or disruptive behavior / attitudes just were never bought by any of the schools in the first place.

I may have inadvertently precipitated a book review once:
I found a chemical formula I could not interpret, while reading Brave New World. I copied it down, took it to a chemistry teacher, and asked him what it was. He studied it a moment, he asked me where I found it. I told him. Then he said
"This is the chemical formula for dynamite."
and recommended that I not try to make any at home.

P.S. More recent printed editions of BNW do not include the paragraph with that formula.

Wow!

I read Brave New World MANY years before I ever took chemistry*, so I didn’t notice that. When is your copy from? I’m wondering if mine has the dangerous knowledge lurking within.







* and given my grades in Chem, probably wouldn’t have noticed anything anyway!

 

[Ryujin]

Wow!

I read Brave New World MANY years before I ever took chemistry*, so I didn’t notice that. When is your copy from? I’m wondering if mine has the dangerous knowledge lurking within.







* and given my grades in Chem, probably wouldn’t have noticed anything anyway!

I learned how to make both gunpowder and gun cotton from a book in my school library, in grade 6. Why they had a copy of a "chemistry dictionary" in a junior school escapes me to this day.

 

[Blue Orange]

I learned how to make both gunpowder and gun cotton from a book in my school library, in grade 6. Why they had a copy of a "chemistry dictionary" in a junior school escapes me to this day.

Someone probably donated it to help you learn about chemistry? A lot of the concerns about kids making bombs and such are only in the past few decades. You can read about Nobel laureates growing up playing with nitrogen tri-iodide, for instance.

 

[Ryujin]

Someone probably donated it to help you learn about chemistry? A lot of the concerns about kids making bombs and such are only in the past few decades. You can read about Nobel laureates growing up playing with nitrogen tri-iodide, for instance.

Well it helped. I certainly learnt (and applied) chemistry.

 

[trappedslider]

Virginia judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids

A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors by booksellers and libraries.

ksltv.com

boom!

 

[CleverNickName]

Virginia judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids

A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors by booksellers and libraries.

ksltv.com

boom!

More of this, please.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sea Horses: The Shyest Fish in the Sea

They’re trying to ban it because sea horse mating biology is a gateway to radical liberalism.

Hugging Sea Horse Book Is Too Racy For Schools, Tennessee Moms Group Says

In a steamy passage in a book conservative moms want banned, sea horses "twist their tails together and twirl gently around."

www.huffpost.com

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It's always about "protecting the children." An excuse I've even heard from some librarians, alas.

Virginia judge tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene for kids

A Virginia judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to minors by booksellers and libraries.

ksltv.com

boom!