Top Banned Books of 2003
Found on Slashdot on Friday, 27 August 2004
The ALA (American Library Association) recently published the new 100 most frequently banned books list of 2003. Of the banned books, Harry Potter was in the number 7th place in the most frequently banned. Also included were 'Where's Waldo' and 'The Giver' along with 'Goosebumps' and 'How to Eat Fried Worms.' These books were banned from various public institutions. This means that they were banned from various public libraries and public schools around the nation. (private schools, libraries, and institutions of higher learning don't count) The ALA encourages the people of the United States to fight against the book bans and read a banned book today!
As far as I see it, it's a list of book which some people want to see banned. Nevertheless, it is disturbing to see what they try to ban: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Catcher in the Rye", "Cujo", "Lord of the Flies" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", amongst many others. Interesting are also the reasons: "sexually explicit", "offensive language", "occult theme", "violent", "promoting homosexuality" and "sex education", plus more. That's puritanism in its purest form.