LoveLife | May 25, 2009 | 9 comments

Locker library of banned books

source: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/24/kid-keeping-a-lendin.html

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A post on Yahoo! Questions asks, 'Is it okay to be running an illegal library from my locker?' Apparently, a teen in a strict private high school runs an underground library from her locker of banned books, including The Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, and the Qu'ran. The girl wrote that Twilight is also banned, but she does not plan on putting it in her library because she wants to maintain high literary quality.
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9 comments // Locker library of banned books

  • MiguelSanchez
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  • unclecharlie
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    • Most excellent! I read the Catcher in the Rye, and it was obviously a poke in the eye with a sharp stick to polite, upper crust WASP culture of the 1950's. Animal Farm was a great commentary on fascism, done in the form of a story of farm animals. The Quaran is a very violent book, condoning murder done in a religious context. Twilight? Never heard of it. But this young lady needs to be commended. However, when she starts passing out Lorraine Boettner's "Catholicism" or starts passing out Chick tracts, well, that's when I would lower the boom.

    • 2 years ago
  • abbym0308
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      abbym0308  
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    • I love this kid! We need more people like him/her. Not only are most of the books on this list some of the best and most important books to read (in my opinion), but it's also refreshing to hear that there are still kids out there who love literature and go out of their way (and off of the computer) to find it.

    • 2 years ago
  • timetide
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      timetide  

    • 1) why would they ban the Qu'ran?
      2) why would they ban half those books? Seriously the catcher in the rye is a threat to young people...

    • 2 years ago
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  • emmaboswood
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    • This kid deserves some serious kudos. Not just for running this make-shift library, but for having the guts to say what a lot of people are thinking: Twilight stinks.

    • 2 years ago
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