{"id":199,"date":"2004-12-06T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=199"},"modified":"2004-12-06T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T17:59:04","slug":"banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this list of banned books on Bill Leisner<\/a>‘s LiveJournal.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look. Which have I read?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Have read in whole<\/b>
\nHave read in part<\/i>
\nNot read<\/p>\n

#1 The Bible<\/i>
\n#2 Huckleberry Finn<\/b> by Mark Twain
\n#3 Don Quixote<\/i> by Miguel de Cervantes
\n#4 The Koran<\/i>
\n#5 Arabian Nights<\/i>
\n#6 Tom Sawyer<\/i> by Mark Twain
\n#7 Gulliver’s Travels<\/i> by Jonathan Swift
\n#8 Canterbury Tales<\/i> by Geoffrey Chaucer
\n#9 Scarlet Letter<\/b> by Nathaniel Hawthorne
\n#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman<\/p>\n

I’m starting to feel like a literature abuser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#11 Prince<\/b> by Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli
\n#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/b> by Harriet Beecher Stowe
\n#13 Diary of a Young Girl<\/b> by Anne Frank
\n#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
\n#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
\n#16 Les Mis\u00e9rables by Victor Hugo
\n#17 Dracula<\/b> by Bram Stoker
\n#18 Autobiography<\/b> by Benjamin Franklin
\n#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
\n#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
\n#21 Grapes of Wrath<\/b> by John Steinbeck
\n#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/i> by Edward Gibbon
\n#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
\n#24 Origin of Species<\/i> by Charles Darwin
\n#25 Ulysses<\/i> by James Joyce<\/p>\n

Well, I started<\/i> reading Ulysses<\/i>. Isn’t that all<\/i> anyone does? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

#26 Decameron<\/i> by Giovanni Boccaccio
\n#27 Animal Farm<\/b> by George Orwell
\n#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/b> by George Orwell
\n#29 Candide<\/i> by Voltaire
\n#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
\n#31 Analects<\/i> by Confucius
\n#32 Dubliners<\/i> by James Joyce<\/p>\n

Another Joyce book started an not finished.<\/p>\n

#33 Of Mice and Men<\/b> by John Steinbeck
\n#34 Farewell to Arms<\/b> by Ernest Hemingway<\/p>\n

Why would someone want to ban A Farewell to Arms<\/i>? Sodding idiots.<\/p>\n

#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
\n#36 Capital (Das Kapital)<\/i> by Karl Marx
\n#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
\n#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<\/b> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/p>\n

You have got<\/i> to be kidding me! What’s so offensive about Sherlock Holmes?<\/p>\n

#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
\n#40 Brave New World<\/b> by Aldous Huxley
\n#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
\n#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell<\/p>\n

I hate the movie. Why would I read<\/i> this?<\/p>\n

#43 Jungle<\/b> by Upton Sinclair<\/p>\n

I just gave my copy of this away a few days ago.<\/p>\n

#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque<\/p>\n

I really<\/i> want to read this.<\/p>\n

#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
\n#46 Lord of the Flies<\/b> by William Golding
\n#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
\n#48 Sun Also Rises<\/b> by Ernest Hemingway
\n#49 Jude the Obscure<\/i> by Thomas Hardy
\n#50 Fahrenheit 451<\/b> by Ray Bradbury
\n#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
\n#52 Critique of Pure Reason<\/b> by Immanuel Kant
\n#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest<\/b> by Ken Kesey
\n#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
\n#55 Catch-22<\/b> by Joseph Heller
\n#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
\n#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
\n#58 Catcher in the Rye<\/b> by J. D. Salinger
\n#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding<\/b> by John Locke<\/p>\n

To think. This book is sitting on my desk right now.<\/p>\n

#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
\n#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
\n#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
\n#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
\n#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
\n#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
\n#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
\n#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais
\n#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
\n#69 The Talmud
\n#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau<\/p>\n

Now I don’t feel so bad. Ten in a row I’ve not read.<\/p>\n

#71 Bridge to Terabithia<\/b> by Katherine Paterson
\n#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
\n#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
\n#74 Mein Kampf<\/i> by Adolf Hitler
\n#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
\n#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
\n#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
\n#78 Popol Vuh
\n#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
\n#80 Satyricon by Petronius
\n#81 James and the Giant Peach<\/b> by Roald Dahl
\n#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
\n#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
\n#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
\n#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut<\/p>\n

I’ve read a fair bit of Vonnegut. Just not Slaughterhouse Five<\/i>. I tend to prefer his phildickian works.<\/p>\n

#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
\n#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
\n#88 Little House on the Prairie<\/b> by Laura Ingalls Wilder
\n#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
\n#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
\n#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
\n#92 Sanctuary<\/b> by William Faulkner
\n#93 As I Lay Dying<\/b> by William Faulkner
\n#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
\n#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
\n#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
\n#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
\n#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
\n#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
\n#100 Clockwork Orange<\/b> by Anthony Burgess
\n#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
\n#102 \u00c9mile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
\n#103 Nana by \u00c9mile Zola
\n#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
\n#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
\n#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
\n#107 Stranger in a Strange Land<\/b> by Robert A. Heinlein
\n#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
\n#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
\n#110 Flowers for Algernon<\/b> by Daniel Keyes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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