Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Yankeefan007
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#1Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:27pm
The list of books Gov. Palin allegedly tried to have banned. Allegedly being the operative word.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
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#2re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:30pmIF this is true, what a horrible person she is. And a sad one, too.
#2re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:30pmWell, it does contain some unpleasant words. Won't you think of the children?
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#3re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:32pmI really, REALLY hope that isn't the real list. Two Shakespeare plays? That hurts my heart a little.
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mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#4re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:33pm"To Kill a Mockingbird".........oh dear, this might be a good time to plan a relocation to Canada....
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#5re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:34pm
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
no...I would die a little bit inside...
edit: I take that back, I would completely die inside.
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 9/4/08 at 11:34 PM
#6re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:35pm
harry potter?
that evil mudblood!
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#7re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:36pmNot true. That's the list of all the books that are banned anywhere in the United States.
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Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#8re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:39pm
I find it hard to believe that she really tried to get all those books banned. The fact is that she did bring up the subject of banning books - apparently a number of times - and that fact alone is abhorent enough. If she, or ANYONE, tries to ban even one book - no matter how bad - then I lose control. Stifling free thought is absolutely unconscionable.
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Updated On: 9/4/08 at 11:39 PM
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BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#9re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:55pmAdd me to the relocation to Canada list. Anyone know a good place? Toronto? Montreal?
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#10re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:56pm
Mamie - thats how I felt about "Catcher in the Rye"... someone hold me back!!! someone hold me back!!!
what??? wha-wha-whaaaattt?? The Color Purple!!! i'll kill her!!! i'll kill her...
#11re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:58pm
And The Color Purple. Racist?
Celie: [lunging towards Sarah with a knife] I curse you. Until you do right by me everything you think about is gonna crumble!
Sofia: Don't do it Miss. Celie. Don't trade places with what I been through.
Shug: Come on, Celie, let's go to the car.
Sofia: He ain't worth it, he ain't worth it.
Sarah: Who you think you is? You can curse nobody. Look at you. Your black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman, you're nothing at all!
Updated On: 9/5/08 at 11:58 PM
Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
#12re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/5/08 at 12:51amI doubt that she would try to ban "A Wrinkle in Time."
Li'l_Devil
Understudy Joined: 2/23/07
#13re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/5/08 at 1:01am
i doubt she tried to get all those books banned. but it's disgraceful that she even attempted to get *any* book banned.
hmmm, funny how Fahrenheit 451 was left off that list.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#14re: Palin tried to have the Dictionary banned
Posted: 9/5/08 at 3:28am
Funny. The one book I WOULD try to ban - The Bible - doesn't seem to appear on the list.
I must be out of the stream. Poor me.
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Swing Joined: 1/25/08
#15re: no truth to this bullsh*t
Posted: 9/5/08 at 4:07am
f*ck, people, are ALL of you ignorant?
do ANY of you know the meaning of critical thinking?
I knew before I clicked on the link posted that this was bogus.
from the link the original poster linked to but I guess forgot to read the actual article like an idiot:
"The list is here, but there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up."
um, do you all know the meaning of the words "NO TRUTH TO THE CLAIM" and "NO FURTHER DOCUMENTATION OR SUPPORT"
Updated On: 9/5/08 at 04:07 AM
#17re: no truth to this bullsh*t
Posted: 9/5/08 at 6:14am
Honestly now, 38 Shakespeare plays ripe for the banning, and the author of this piece goes for 'Merchant of Venice' and 'Twelfth Night'? Is that normal behaviour? What about 'Macbeth', with all the witchcraft? What about 'Troilus and Cressida', with those gays? What about 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', which I'm totally fed-up with? Apparently anti-semitism and cross-dressing are the most offensive things anyone can possibly think of (anti-semitism is terrible, but not usually one of the primary concerns of book-banners); in which case, why is 'As You Like It' allowed to roam free?
#19re: no truth to this bullsh*t
Posted: 9/5/08 at 9:45am
Wow, as an English educator I am repulsed by this list!
I've read most of the books on the list and most of them are VERY historically accurate. To me a person who ignores the truth has no reason to be in poltiics.
And yet Republicans are still around...
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#20re: no truth to this bullsh*t
Posted: 9/5/08 at 9:54am
as it says on the memorial to the Jewish book burning in Berlin, "Those who would burn books, would burn people."
And of course she would want Catcher in the Rye" banned... honestly, it's already banned from most school districts (not mine though, I got lucky!).
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#21re: no truth to this bullsh*t
Posted: 9/5/08 at 9:58am
Are these really the books she wanted banned? All I've been able to find online is a story that she contacted the librarian in her town when she was mayor, asking how to go about banning books.
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kelzama
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#22re: no truth to this bullsh*t
Posted: 9/5/08 at 10:04am
No, this is a list compiled by a site of all the books they could find that have been banned in the US at some point in time.
It's in the very fine print of the initially linked site.
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