Barb, I'd love to know why those particular books are "banned". Do you have any way of finding that out?

Our Constitution needs just one more ammendment. One that says:
Before taking office, Every politician and preacher will be required to spend 30 days, on bread and water, studying the Curan; after which a quiz will be given, and failure is not an option. You can find it in english on Google

Hey Seashell, locally here, some of those books were taken out of the school libraries because they were deemed "inappropriate". Apparently there were complaints that led to it, but nobody knows where the complaints came from. Personally, I think it was some prude on the school boards.

Probably they were taking too much time away from diversity training.

Got a better idea how about Ammendment 28 - Every office holder, from each of the three Branches of Government, must submit to a polygraph test once a week while holding Office. Failure is not an option.

why would they ban 1984? That is one of my fave books of all time!

The Meaning of the Koran
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/201...on&emc=tya1

Re 1984 -- maybe the "rewriting history" and "double speak" ideas hit too close to home. ;-)

I will look for the list (but I may have recycled it), it had reasons on it like "too political", "anti gov't", "racial", etc.

One book that SHOULD be in all schools is UP FROM SLAVERY, by Booker T Washington: a truly inspirational work that reports how ones station in life, however bleak it may seem, can be remedied by hard work and an undying resolve to improve......

I doubt that it will become required reading though.... no Big Government intervention is need to aid in his sucess!!