Comments on: The Perks of Being A Wallflower– Banned Books Week http://libdrone.info/2008/09/29/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower-banned-books-week/ Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:23:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Book Calendar http://libdrone.info/2008/09/29/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower-banned-books-week/#comment-689 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:00:42 +0000 http://libdrone.info/2008/09/the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower-banned-books-week/#comment-689 So many book bannings don’t make sense. Often telling people they should not read something makes the thing more popular. The word no is a magic sales tool for books. I don’t think Tropic of Capricorn or Lady Chaterley’s Lover would have done so well if not for the word obscence attached to them. The same goes for Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.

We have to watch for theft more than banning now. The haters of books just steal our copies of those salacious things like Wifey by Judy Blume, or books by Lowis Lowry or Chris Crutcher. Some people just don’t like to hear a different voice in the world.

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