Kid keeping a lending library of banned books in her locker
A school friend asked to borrow off him The Catcher in the Rye, one of the books in the banned list, and one thing led to another..."
This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality.
Anyway, I now operate a little mini-library that no one has access to but myself. Practically a real library, because I keep an inventory log and give people due dates and everything. I would be in so much trouble if I got caught, but I think it's the right thing to do because before I started, almost no kid at school but myself took an active interest in reading! Now not only are all the kids reading the banned books, but go out of their way to read anything they can get their hands on
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/24/kid-keeping-a-lendin.html
Where the heck does this poor kid live?
They've banned, Candide, The Divine Comedy, and Paradise Lost!?
Great civil disobedience;
maybe you could gift the kid a copy of RP's The Revolution for her lending library?
Best way to get somebody to do something they don't want to.
Tell them they can't do it.
The people who want to ban these books to "protect" the children, just made the kids desire to learn. Once you open the door to knowledge, it is as addicting as any drug. That young person who did this deserves a free college education!
great post
growing up in communist Poland it was a joy to obtain banned books from the underground printing places.
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This thread prompted me to buy these books.
I had read some of them, but I wanted to have a copy of the actual books, should the internet and local libraries close. Survivalists should also consider a library of knowledge in addition to everything else.
Thanks again for posting.
Ship by: June 1, 2009
1 "Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited"
Aldous Huxley; Paperback; $11.53
2 "Animal Farm and 1984"
George Orwell; Hardcover; $15.60
3 "Steppenwolf: A Novel"
Hermann Hesse; Paperback; $10.98
4 "The Catcher in the Rye"
J.D. Salinger; Paperback; $10.77
5 "A Clockwork Orange"
Anthony Burgess; Paperback; $10.94
6 "The Fountainhead"
Ayn Rand; Mass Market Paperback; $8.99
7 "Atlas Shrugged"
Ayn Rand; Paperback; $11.50
Buy Anthem, and read it before you read the Fountainhead and
Atlas Shrugged.
I am curious. Why Anthem 1st?
Ron Paul is my President.
Ron Paul is my President.
Why so?
Why so? I found Anthem in my Father's collection and I've not read the others yet so I'm wondering why you say this.
Yes yes DP crew I've not read Atlas Shrugged....
Although I did pick up Atlas Shrugged at B&N, toted that monster book all over the store and considered it all the way to the counter but chose Robert's Rules of Order instead. Just like a good lil Republican right?
Halp. ;)
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Whatever you do read Atlas Shrugged.
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If you used a credit card, a copy of the receipt went to HS.
You just bought the terrorist trifecta.
Any one of those books checked out at the library gets you reported. Think about the eyebrows you would raise with the whole list.
Nice list!
I have to plug my favorite wise-ass anti-authoritarian of all time: Henry David Thoreau. HDT's "Civil Disobedience" is a classic. It's a devastating combination of logic, cynicism, and humor. Of course "Walden" is good too.
Who banned the books?
The school? Are these books not allowed in the school library, or have they not been chosen to be in the school library, or are they not used the the classroom, or not allowed to be used in the classroom? Are they not allowed on the school property?
"Banned books" can mean anything today.
It looks like it is a school
It looks like it is a school ban based on religious content:
So, it would appear that this is probably a private Catholic school imposing their own restrictions.
Most of those books I read in high school
like some others have said, as required reading. I remember us making a big ta-do in English class about The Cantebury Tales in-class reading....
And whatever in the world is now wrong with Grimm's Fairy Tales?
My son's 10th grade English class has just finished up with Animal Farm so we've been discussing that book quite a lot lately.
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
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Freedom is not: doing everything you want to.
Freedom is: not having to do what you don't want to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Animal Farm, Catch 22, Lord of the Flies
I know...those books were fine to read when I was in High School!
heres a partial list of her books
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoCt3NHGwM8BxD2...
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Thanks for posting! I just bought a copy for my teens to read.
I read it when I was in high school, and they should also.
I turned out all right and they will too!
We were REQUIRED to read it in high school
Now it's banned??? Everything's fine.
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Somebody please tell that kid to run it from home
For some reason kids think their lockers are their private property and get shocked and upset when the school goes through them. With this thing in the light, his locker is as good as raided. He needs to get those books home, TODAY! And keep doing what he's doing from actual private property (or as close as you can get).
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I went through that in HS in the 90s
Other kids were breaking into my locker, others' lockers too. So I put my own padlock on it, and the school threatened to cut it off. I told them to try it and see how far that went. They did, I sued for the cost of the lock and the lost personal property from their neglect. I won in small claims, and they finally took care of the bullies that were on the locker crime spree. The administrators weren't too happy with me. I told the principal, in front of the school board, "Well, maybe if you did your job and actually disciplined these kids so this stuff wouldn't happen then we wouldn't be here."
They weren't about to discipline a 4.62 GPA kid with perfect attendance, 3 athletic letters, two academic scholarships, and the anchor of every academic competition team they had. It would have shot themselves in the foot badly and been a PR fiasco.
But I agree, the kid should run this library from home. And make sure 1984 is in the pile as well. And the school needs to brush up on the First Amendment.
Banned books make my reading list immediately upon being banned.
This kid is learning some important lessons
The kids at her school are more interested in reading just because the books are banned. Also, she doesn't lend to freshmen so she has the angle on exclusivity. She's a marketing genius, except the part where she doesn't get any money.
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Prohibition doesn't work
It drives up demand and makes criminals out of users and suppliers.
This girl has to keep her operation underground and secret. At any time her library could be raided by government enforcers.
She could have severe penalties imposed upon her for her actions. Suspension and expulsion are equivalent to serving time and life in prison.
If her records are seized, that would likely lead to more searches and more penalties levied upon the users.
While the analogies may seem humorous, this is no joke. There is officially a War on Words going on across this country enforced by thought police.
I wonder if 1984 is on the banned list.