I Think That It's Rant Week...

Originally I was going to rant about flaky people, but I won't.
Because guess what this week is?
Banned Books Week.
So I shall semi-rant about how ridiculous it is to ban words put on mushed up trees.
Semi-rant because I'm not in a ranting mood. More of a sleeping one.


I've never understood this completely. Because when a book is banned, it just gives the author and the book more attention.
Like The Da Vinci Code. Until fundamentalist Christians were all "Woah. Dude. This is blasphemous," not that many people knew about it. And those who did had probably read Angles and Demons, so they knew that Langdon didn't hate the Vatican, just some of the people in it.

I'm looking at my bookshelves right now.
Almost all of them have been banned of challenged.
Everything from The It Girl to The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe*
The best books of all time have been banned, I think.
Like, The Awakening. And A Separate Peace**.
Also, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. Because it depressed readers. And, in Lebanon, as it positively portrayed Jews. :facepalm:

My favourite challenging has to be A Catcher in the Rye.
Let me tell you about this book.
I hate it.
And it's been banned and challenged since it came out. In 1951.
The same school boards keep trying to ban it. After nearly sixty years.

More information:
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm


Imma go lay down and watch vlogbrothers.




*WTF? Aslan=Jesus
**even though I totally hated A Separate Peace, it's apparently a classic. Whatever.