Comments on: Free People Read Freely

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:36:00 +0000

Thanks Bev. I will add your choices to my list for Monday and will watch for your post.

By: Bev Sykes

Bev Sykes — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:15:00 +0000

I liked your entry and am writing one of my own. I’m talking about these books (which I found on a different banned book list): I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; Of Mice and Men, Blubber; Are You There, God; To Kill a Mockingbird; Where’s Waldo; Tom Sawyer; Pillars of the Earth

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:44:00 +0000

Thanks for stopping by rockstories. I read Fahrenheit 451 years and years ago. May have to read it again since you mentioned.

How cool that you got to meet shel, tech fun. And thanks again for the link.

By: RockStories

RockStories — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:54:00 +0000

Great post. Some of my favorite books are on this list, and I’m currently reading To Kill a Mockingbird with my 11-year-old.

I just finally got around, quite recently, to reading Fahrenheit 451, and definitely recommend it to anyone else who has managed to miss it.

By: Techfun

Techfun — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:49:00 +0000

I loved Shel too. My partner (at the time) and I met him down in Key West a few years before he died. Amazing man. I try hard to see through his eyes so I don’t become inured to the ridiculousness all around.

Vonnegut helps with that too.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:46:00 +0000

I am a big fan of Huckleberry Finn too, firerobin. Mark Twain was certainly one of our great American writers. Thanks for stopping by.

By: firerobin

firerobin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:36:00 +0000

Huckleberry Finn is in my opinion the great American novel. I believe it is still banned in the children’s literature section of libraries. I think this is a travesty. The use of the “N” word is completely in context with the vernacular of the time. And the overall message of the book is equality for all.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:23:00 +0000

I love uncle shelby too. Joel used to have a CD on which he sang a song titled “I got stoned and I missed it”. hilarious

By: golfwidow

golfwidow — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:51:00 +0000

I have read, at least once, every single damned book you listed, and I thought they were all great except Margaret (I was in sixth grade when I read it and I thought she was kind of a dope).

My favorite banned books are Shel Silverstein, and they're the ones I revisit during Banned Books Week. I just adore a mind so slammed-shut that it would complain that A Light in the Attic is inappropriate because it teaches children that it's easier to break dishes than wash them. Rock on forever, Mr. Silverstein.