Taking the wrong lesson from Fahrenheit 451
With word that Sarah Palin fancies herself a fireman, we have an unofficial list of the books she wanted burnedbanned. If only she were 1/50th as self-aware as some in the book.
How many have you read? If not, why not? The ones I’ve read are highlighted.
- Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- Blubber by Judy Blume
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Bridge to Terabithida by Katherine Paterson
- Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Christine by Stephen King
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Cujo by Stephen King
- Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
- Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
- Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
- Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Decameron by Boccaccio
- Eastof Eden by John Steinbeck
- Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
- Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
- Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Forever by Judy Blume
- Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
- Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
- Have to Go by Robert Munsch
- Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Impressions edited by Jack Booth
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
- My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- My House by Nikki Giovanni
- My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
- Night Chills by Dean Koontz
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
- Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
- Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
- Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
- Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
- Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Bastard by John Jakes
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
- The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
- The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
- The Living Bible by William C. Bower
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
- Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
- Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
Seriously, a dictionary?
Why is Gabriel-Garcia Marquez’ One-hundred Years of Solitude on here, but not Love in the Time of Cholera? What about Yusef Komunyakaa’s collection of semi-blasphemous poetry Talking Dirty to the Gods? Sure that’s offensive?
She can’t even figure out what books to ban.
Idiot
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Apparently this blog doesn’t mind posting lies about Sarah Palin. First, it took me all of 5 minutes to confirm that this list did not come from a list of books supposedly banned by Sarah Palin, but rather from a list of books that have ever been banned in the US. If you had bothered to even look at the list, you would have realized that some of these books were published after Sarah Palin was mayor, which should have tipped you off. I guess though among Democrats, the truth doesn’t matter and sources are irrelevant (after all, it was Joe Biden who proved that plagiarism is okay).