The person who made this image and reasoning behind including books: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchonomicon-real-banned-book
And followup: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/addendum-the-most-banned-book
What banned/controversial books have you guys read? Which would you recommend? Are there any books that should be on this list but aren't?
Personally I think this list needs to include Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors which is currently the only book where the publisher has been successfully sued for a crime committed by the reader. Also I have no idea why Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses isn't included considering there is a bounty on the translators of the book.
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its always weird to hear about "banned books" in america. my local barnes & nobles has an entire display for what they call "banned books" but apparently its just books that shitthole towns have taken out of school libraries
found a list of it online. its exactly the kind of books you'd expect to be on the list
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It is just bullshit political rhetoric. Libraries have limited space, and so someone has to make the call on what books are kept in them, and what books are not. Whoever previously had this power bemoan the loss of these privileges to people higher up on the political chain. In desperation, they try to equate this loss with book burnings in Nazi Germany etc.
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That's because there are no banned books in the US, taking stuff out of public libraries ain't banning, especially when you can just order them on Amazon our get the pdf/epub for free. Banning and censorship goes beyond library removal, it entails government ordering publishers to stop printing, bookstores to stop selling and online content removal.
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But are these books even being banned from general public libraries? I bet I could find most of them at my local library, actually. I think most of them are simply removed from school libraries, which makes sense. I certainly don't have any objections to having a more curated set of books available at a public school library, given that students are still allowed to check the books out at a "real"/full-service public library.
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Very few of them are even removed from school libraries outside a few specific counties (which are often insane leftoids duplicitously removing these books as a protest against library restrictions)
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The uncensored version of Operation Dark Heart is a book I would consider banned.
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OY VEY THEY HAVE BANNED ALL 357 HORUS HERRSY NOVELS
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!leafs my schools banned book shelf were books banned from import at one time or another. Lead to me reading Lolita
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lmao I was like 14 and basically I took away from it was "wow that hubert guy kinda sucks."
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I cant believe they dont let kids read hustler or penthouse in scholl anymore, smh
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