SevenWritez

The Catcher in the Rye
The Bookseller of Kabul (my school, for some such reason or another)
Speak
The Diary of Anne Frank

Those are the ones off the top of my head. I'm sure there's a list somewhere.

Malone

Anne Frank was required reading in my school.

Censorship is a pretty strong word to be throwing around. Not putting something in a child's library isn't quite the same. It's not like I can't go into a bookstore and pick up a copy of Hesse, or get on the net and find how to build...things that the FBI would track me for mentioning here.

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JosephB

Well, like I said, get parents and school boards involved and mistakes will be made. Blame this more on the sorry state of of public education and how our schools are run. The books are available. You can go to the store and buy them.

Exactly. I didn't see your post.

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Shawn

Get this: my school doesn't have required reading. Isn't that messed up? I think I've spent more time discussing politics this year in my English class than I've spent reading. Atrocious.


In any case, I thought Twilight was crap. But if somebody likes it, I don't see the point in saying what I thought of it. I find the fans of the book mostly includes teenage girls; or older girls stuck in a teenage mentality.

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mi is happy

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I enjoyed the books. Of course I am not someone who goes around not liking something, because everyone else doesn't. I don't need some bull crap excuse to be artistic or different.

They aren't the best books ever, but Stephanie Meyer did a good job. She created a book that got people who didn't read to pick this book up. In the end that is what counts most to me. What was the authors impact on their audience. Did they just read it and then shrug, or did they go crazy over it?

I like many others at first looked at it with disdain, though I hadn't read it. Vampire falls in love with a human? How unoriginal. (I will not use cliche for fear of being cliche) I could go on GiaOnline and find thousands of RPG's on this topic. But that cover! Oh it was so attracting. I finally decided to rent it from my library. And you know what? I read it for three hours non-stop. I just couldn't put it down. It was simplistic yet descriptive. I've read all the books and enjoyed them pretty well, though I thought the ending of the last one wasn't the best. It was something nice to read in my free time.

Love,
Mi

(I'm lazy so I just pasted a reply I did in one of the other subjects on this forum about this book. It still applies. Oh quite trying to say it's bad for kids to read this book.

Ugh. If they are reading something, then at lest their IQ will rise a few points. Plus, what, are they going to die by reading a crappy book? Ridiculous.)

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Damien.

I didn't like the book Speak.

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Damien.

Oh, and the IQ thing; your IQ goes up and down three points while reading; it doesn't stay up.

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