Heads22 Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I have read: Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier The Giver by Lois Lowry Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - I have heard this one performed..pretty good. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell I've seen to movie of All Quiet on the Western Front...IMO it's very good. So is A Farewell to Arms. Also, if you are into football at all, read Friday night Lights about the football team in Odessa Texas. VERY good read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiff Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I am jumping in late but I will add a few things. Dead Zone should never be banned in school, it's one of the greatest books I've ever read. Johnny is still one of my favorite characters. Along those same lines I would argue that books can be even more compelling than movies. They can be way deeper, because you can know what's going on in the characters' minds. Once in a while, a movie will have narrative and once in a while it will shine (ie: Adaptation), but I have on many occasions read a book and seen the movie [including the Green Mile(the book made more sense)], and rarely does the movie do more for me. Other ones I have read on that list, A Day No Pigs Would Die, The Witches (great book, but the movie freaked me out), Julie of the Wolves, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Light in the Attic (Silverstein and Dahl are two of my adolescent heroes), James and the Giant Peach (love that story), Lord of the Flies (classic), and of course Where's Waldo. None of those should be banned IMO, and I doubt many of them are banned nowadays, but this list is 1900-1999. Oh and speaking of burns, I got the mother of all burns last year running track. 100 meter dash I lunged at the end, lost my balance, fell forward on a rubber track. Burned from elbow to wrist as roman put it, skin totally gone. Also some burning on my hip and thigh, but the arm took a good three weeks to heal. Without being too descriptive, those were some of the most painful showers I've ever taken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitesox247 Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Those books contain nothing that they havent heard/seen on TV before. As for books I've read so far in highschool: Of Mice and Men Catch 22 (I see Yosarrian surfing around) Crime and Punishment Flowers for Algernon To Kill a Mockingbird Huck Finn All Quiet on the Western Front Lord of the Flies 1984 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YASNY Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I really find it disturbing, but not at all surprising, the "Huck Finn" is on that list. The reason it is being banned, of course, is all the references to "the n*****, Jim", the slave that was Huck's traveling companion. Twain was one of the greatest American authors of his, or any other, time. How can a portrayal of life along the Mississippi River in a pre-Civil War timeframe be accurately portrayed without including the fact that slavery existed and the racial attitudes that were held toward those slaves. It seems to me that if we ignore it, we will eventually forget it. Those that forget history and doomed to repeat it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBAHO Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I have my finaly year 12 exams in about a month and one of those exams will be Egnlish. The books that I have to do for English r either THings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Divine Wind by Garry Disher or Othello by Shakespeare. We can also write about the film Gattaca with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. U hav to choose 2 of em. I did To Kill a Mockingbird in year 10 and The Great Gatsby in year 11. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soxplosion Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Oh and speaking of burns, I got the mother of all burns last year running track. 100 meter dash I lunged at the end, lost my balance, fell forward on a rubber track. Burned from elbow to wrist as roman put it, skin totally gone. Also some burning on my hip and thigh, but the arm took a good three weeks to heal. Without being too descriptive, those were some of the most painful showers I've ever taken. Thats brutal. Im not even sure I would shower... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wong & Owens Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I can't believe "God's Grace" by Bernard Malamud wasn't on the list. The man who gave us The Natural also penned this odd novel that contains a description of a guy f***ing an ape. They don't differentiate what types of schools are doing the banning. I am completely un-censorship, but could understand why someone would have a problem with a grammar school library containing Madonna's "Sex," or why a catholic school wouldn't want "The Joy of Fisting with Rod and Todd" on their shelves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSteve Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 I've seen to movie of All Quiet on the Western Front...IMO it's very good. Read the book sometime. I thought it was a very good book, better than the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleM23 Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Maybe I missed it, but I could have sworn The Autobiography of Malcolm X was one of, if not the, most banned books... Although, maybe schools never even think of teaching it so there's no need to ban it? Either way, it's an incredible book. Easily one of the best I've ever read along with To Kill A Mockingbird, Slaughter-house 5, The Qu'ran, and Catcher in the Rye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Siddartha is a good book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonkeyKongerko Posted September 26, 2003 Share Posted September 26, 2003 Wow Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz??? When I was in 1st grade Alvin Schwartz himself visited our school and read all of his Scary Stories to us. Wow times have changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1549 Posted September 27, 2003 Author Share Posted September 27, 2003 Siddartha is a good book. I personally didn't like it. Then again, I shocked my history class by announcing I enjoyed reading centennial, a 1000+ page masterpiece describing the evolution of a mouse in the jurrasic period into the humans that run the colorado town in the 1970's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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