One of My Required Banned Books Posts
I liked this one:
I’m always confused when I seeĀ books like Brave New World on a banned book list. Yes, it is about a homogenized world. Yes people can have sex with whomever they please without fear of disease or babies. Yes there are no families. However, the whole point of the novel is that a life like that is entirely unsatisfying. It’s not condoning that sort of lifestyle in the least.
I often wonder if the people who attempt to ban books even read them, as they often decide what to ban on by the base content of the book, and not the message it contains.
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Yep– They completely MISS the message. I gotta wonder if they read it too.
kim - September 25, 2008 at 12:14 am