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09-06-2008, 01:20 PM
| | hypefairy | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: feed your soul and forget your manners
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Originally Posted by RockitToTheMoon  When I read about Palin trying to have books banned and firing librarians my first thought was that I really want to see her list. According to my cousin in DC this is the list of books Palin tried to have banned:
Blubber by Judy Blume
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women©ˆs Health Collective
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
I don't know where the list is from, and I've asked my cousin where she got it from. Anyway. I think it's interesting. | lol forever if this list is true. we should ban this bitch instead.
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09-06-2008, 01:23 PM
|  | why u bullshittin' | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | Yeah, seriously, read the McCain nut's argument. It actually makes sense. |
09-06-2008, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by RockitToTheMoon When I read about Palin trying to have books banned and firing librarians my first thought was that I really want to see her list. According to my cousin in DC this is the list of books Palin tried to have banned:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine LˆEngle
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 Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by 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©ˆs Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of 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©ˆs 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©ˆHara
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©ˆs Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women©ˆs 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
I don't know where the list is from, and I've asked my cousin where she got it from. Anyway. I think it's interesting. | One of the Harry Potter books wasn't out till two years after this reportedly happened. The list is a lie. What appears to have happened is this:
Palin asked the city librarian how she'd react if Palin wanted to pull some books from the library. The librarian refused. The librarian was NOT fired (another rumor). Mary Ellen, the librarian, actually resigned around Palin's second term.
So yeah.. just another smear. The letter, as reportedly said by the Palin camp back then, was just a test of loyalty er some wierd shit like that.
Anyway.. here's an article that seems to have a bit more information. Palin asked Wasilla librarian about censoring books - BostonHerald.com |
09-06-2008, 02:49 PM
| | why u bullshittin' | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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The letter, as reportedly said by the Palin camp back then, was just a test of loyalty er some wierd shit like that.
| And that's better because...? Why would Palin "test" her reaction in this way, if she didn't support the banning of books from public libraries? Why would she be seeking "loyalty" from a fucking librarian?
Hate to say this, but even if this happened exactly as you've described, no worse, no better, Palin still sounds like a bit of a cock. |
09-06-2008, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Ophiel And that's better because...? Why would Palin "test" her reaction in this way, if she didn't support the banning of books from public libraries? Why would she be seeking "loyalty" from a fucking librarian?
Hate to say this, but even if this happened exactly as you've described, no worse, no better, Palin still sounds like a bit of a cock. | I didn't imply anything is better or worse above. What I simply posted was a clarification of the actual events. Lies kind of get on my nerves is all. Dunno, maybe it's just me.
However I disagree with you. Banning all these books and firing the librarian would be worse than sending a letter to test a librarians loyalty in some weird mind game.
I'm waiting to hear more information on the topic. I don't know what this "test" was all about.. or what this letter contained. Not going to judge the situation until I know all sides of the story. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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