The top 100 most challenged books in the United States (WTF)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-commonly_challenged_books_in_the_United_States

Wrinkle in Time? Catch-22? James and the Giant ****ing Peach? What is wrong with people? :|

I will eat my shoes if there is someone here who has not read at least one book on this list in his lifetime.

Hey,James and the Giant Peach,I read that book a lot,also watched the movie a lot.

The Bible isnt in the list?

The Bible isnt in the list?

CosmicZombie

How can you challenge 1984? Wouldn't the sheer irony cause your head to explode?

How can you challenge 1984? Wouldn't the sheer irony cause your head to explode?

PBSnipes

How can you challenge 1984? Wouldn't the sheer irony cause your head to explode?

PBSnipes

Gone With The Wind LOL

What is the point of challenging Ulysses? Nobody can be bothered to actually read it.

How is The Golden Compass not on that list? Huck Finn? Really?Yagr_Zero

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How can you challenge 1984? Wouldn't the sheer irony cause your head to explode?

Theokhoth

How is The Golden Compass not on that list? Huck Finn? Really?Yagr_Zero

[QUOTE="Yagr_Zero"]How is The Golden Compass not on that list? Huck Finn? Really?Theokhoth

[QUOTE="Yagr_Zero"]How is The Golden Compass not on that list? Huck Finn? Really?xaos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRS6gW_k1uc

That's got like every book i've read for schoo; from like the later years of elementary school to high school.

That's why I'm translating it into goodspeak; I am confident the result will be doubleplusgood!

xaos

Doubleplusgood answer!

And doubleplusLOL on Dav Pilkey getting two different series on the list (Captain Underpants and The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby).

Harry potter? How can one challenge a completely fictional book about wizards in england?

Harry potter? How can one challenge a completely fictional book about wizards in england?

11Marcel

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Harry potter? How can one challenge a completely fictional book about wizards in england?

xaos

Hehehe well there would be something to worry about if witchcraft actually EXISTED..

I will eat my shoes if there is someone here who has not read at least one book on this list in his lifetime.

Theokhoth

i hope your shoes taste well. :-)

Harry potter? How can one challenge a completely fictional book about wizards in england?

11Marcel

This reminded me of a banned book.. help me out here. Does anyone know the name of the book that has a man and a woman holding assault rifles on the cover? I read once that it was banned for "inciting revolution" or something. Sorry, I don't remember much about it.

The fact that Brave New World and 1984 are both on there is kind of sad in the extreme, especially since both are still warnings as to different ways we could go. (And lol @ the comment about the irony.)

This comic is especially telling: Amusing Ourselves to Death (Huxley Was Right).

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]I will eat my shoes if there is someone here who has not read at least one book on this list in his lifetime.

kweeni

i hope your shoes taste well. :-)

the adventures of super diaper baby? what the ****? this book is challenged? by who? LOL

The fact that Brave New World and 1984 are both on there is kind of sad in the extreme, especially since both are still warnings as to different ways we could go. (And lol @ the comment about the irony.)

This comic is especially telling: Amusing Ourselves to Death (Huxley Was Right).

Esotericus

I would argue that many conservatives that are stuck up on extreme nationalism think these two books some how are bashing their perspective as being incorrect or what not.

How can you challenge 1984? Wouldn't the sheer irony cause your head to explode?

PBSnipes

I've read a good handful of those books. I can understand why some people would challenge them. To me its just good literature.

Of Mice and Men, Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird? why would someone want to challenge these books?

And come on, Captain Underpants? Goosebumps? Really?

Of Mice and Men, Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird? why would someone want to challenge these books?

And come on, Captain Underpants? Goosebumps? Really?

DJ-Lafleur

1984, how appropriate. The only thing more appropriate would be Fahrenheit 451.

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Of Mice and Men, Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird? why would someone want to challenge these books?

And come on, Captain Underpants? Goosebumps? Really?

CommanderShiro

I figured it would be for trivial reasons such as those, but still, come one people, get a back bone for Chrsit's sake. :x

I'm not surprised that Howard Stern's Private Parts were challenged. :lol: The same goes with The Great Gatsby. I never read the book, but the movie was pretty graphic at least. Captain Underpants should be challenged. That book was disgusting. I liked it when I was a child, but now I see it as the repulsive novel that it is. A Clockwork Orange is no surprise. I'm astonished Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Wrinkle in Time was challenged. Where is On the Origin of Species or The Communist Manifesto?

Welcome to America. And people wonder why our education system is so poor. GettingTired

Reely? wut givs U that idia?

I used to love Captain Underpants books. *Runs to tree house and starts to read Captain Underpants*

the adventures of super diaper baby? what the ****? this book is challenged? by who? LOL

needled24-7

I read that book. I used to think that Captain Underpants was the best. :lol: