VP Palin's big list of books that should have been banned

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This information has been verified through the Wasilla Library Board?s official minutes. If you would like to further verify, please contact KJ Martin-Albright at 907-376-5913 ext. 11, or fax to 907-376-2347

This is a list of books that then-mayor, Sarah Palin tried to ban from Wasilla library.

1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L?Engle

3. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

5. Blubber by Judy Blume

6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

7. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

8. Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

9. Carrie by Stephen King

10. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

11. Christine by Stephen King

12. Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

13. Cujo by Stephen King

14. Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen

15. Daddy?s Roommate by Michael Willhoite

16. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

17. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

18. Decameron by Boccaccio

19. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

20. Fallen Angels by Walter Myers

21. Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland

22. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

23. Forever by Judy Blume

24. Grendel by John Champlin Gardner

25. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam

26. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer?s Stone by J.K. Rowling

27. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

28. Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

29. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

30. Have to Go by Robert Munsch

31. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

32. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

33. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

34. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

35. Impressions edited by Jack Booth

36. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

37. It?s Okay if You Don?t Love Me by Norma Klein

38. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

39. Lady Chatterley?s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

40. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

41. Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

42. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

43. Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein

44. Lysistrata by Aristophanes

45. More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

46. My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

47. My House by Nikki Giovanni

48. My Friend Flicka by Mary O?Hara

49. Night Chills by Dean Koontz

50. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

51. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

52. One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

53. One Flew Over The Cuckoo?s Nest by Ken Kesey

54. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

55. Ordinary People by Judith Guest

56. Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women?s Health Collective

57. Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

58. Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

59. Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

60. Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

61. Separate Peace by John Knowles

62. Silas Marner by George Eliot

63. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

64. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

65. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

66. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

67. The Bastard by John Jakes

68. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

69. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

70. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

71. The Devil?s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

72. The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs

73. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

74. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

75. The Handmaid?s Tale by Margaret Atwood

76. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder

77. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

78. The Living Bible by William C. Bower

79. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

80. The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman

81. The Pigman by Paul Zindel

82. The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders

83. The Shining by Stephen King

84. The Witches by Roald Dahl

85. The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder

86. Then Again, Maybe I Won?t by Judy Blume

87. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

88. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

89. Webster?s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster

90. Editorial Staff

91. Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween

92. Symbols by Edna Barth
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there's quite a few weird choices in there: 100yrs of solitude, The Merchant of Venice, anything by stephen king (boring yes, but offensive? how?), Tom Sawyer, huck finn, tarzan, One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich? James and the Giant Peach? death of a salesman?

besides using dated dialogue I cant see why any of them would be banned

http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/blog2/157



morality ninnies ftl
 
dammit:

versions of this list have been circulating since at least as far back as 1998, and is actually a catch-all collection of titles said to be "books banned at one time or another in the United States.
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/shakes fist at snopes/no limit

still think she should be tarred and feathered


also it's not that big of stretch seeing as how far right she appears to be
 
CptStern said:
still think she should be tarred and feathered


also it's not that big of stretch seeing as how far right she appears to be
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Heh, offense in this case really isn't the best defence.
 
so .....you're saying we should just kill her? it's a little extreme seeing as how she isnt a vp yet and there's more deserving people in politics ..but meh, I wont shed a tear
 
I guess information that comes via blog's isn't as reliable as it used to be.
 
well yes and no:

versions of this list have been circulating since at least as far back as 1998, and is actually a catch-all collection of titles said to be "books banned at one time or another in the United States.
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I think most banned books were just local libraries and thigs like that. Like in Minniechuessahio or wherever the crazy religial states are.
 
Glad it's not the case (though I find the prospect of her potentially running the US quite troubling given her fundamentalist Pro life views), but it's quite alarming that some political forces do want those books banned. Albeit the list isn't related to her, clearly someone put it together. I mean who the **** wants to ban 'The Decameron by Boccaccio, or Canterbury Tales by Chaucer? Hardly up there with Harry Potter in terms of popularity...
 
I am very glad this is fake.

Canturbury Tales? Really?
 
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