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September 7th, 2008

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eddie_the_padre
05:54 am - Can we say Censorship... Hello Mr. Regan.
Books (then) Mayor Sarah Palin tried to remove from Wasilla library. When the librarian refused to ban the books, Palin tried to get her fired. This information is taken from the official minutes of the Wasilla Library Board.

  1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

  2. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

  3. Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

  4. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

  5. Blubber by Judy Blume

  6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  7. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

  8. Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

  9. Carrie by Stephen King

  10. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

  11. Christine by Stephen King

  12. Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  13. Cujo by Stephen King

  14. Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen

  15. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite

  16. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

  17. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

  18. Decameron by Boccaccio

  19. East of Eden by John Steinbeck

  20. Fallen Angels by Walter Myers

  21. Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland

  22. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

  23. Forever by Judy Blume

  24. Grendel by John Champlin Gardner

  25. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam

  26. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

  27. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

  28. Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

  29. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

  30. Have to Go by Robert Munsch

  31. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

  32. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

  33. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  34. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

  35. Impressions edited by Jack Booth

  36. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

  37. It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein

  38. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

  39. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

  40. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

  41. Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

  42. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  43. Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein

  44. Lysistrata by Aristophanes

  45. More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

  46. My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

  47. My House by Nikki Giovanni

  48. My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara

  49. Night Chills by Dean Koontz

  50. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

  51. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

  52. One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  53. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

  54. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  55. Ordinary People by Judith Guest

  56. Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective

  57. Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

  58. Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

  59. Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

  60. Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

  61. Separate Peace by John Knowles

  62. Silas Marner by George Eliot

  63. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

  64. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  65. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

  66. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  67. The Bastard by John Jakes

  68. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

  69. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

  70. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

  71. The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

  72. The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs

  73. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

  74. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

  75. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

  76. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder

  77. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

  78. The Living Bible by William C. Bower

  79. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

  80. The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman

  81. The Pigman by Paul Zindel

  82. The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders

  83. The Shining by Stephen King

  84. The Witches by Roald Dahl

  85. The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder

  86. Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume

  87. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  88. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

  89. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster

  90. Editorial Staff

  91. Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween

  92. Symbols by Edna Barth


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From:[info]papananook
Date:September 7th, 2008 12:25 pm (UTC)

THANKS FOR THIS!

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That's an amazin' list of great books, many of which I've read and cherished...Palin should be shunned and ignored, not championed by anyone...leave it to McCain and the Rethugs.
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From:[info]papananook
Date:September 7th, 2008 12:28 pm (UTC)
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But here's the thing--the PEOPLE of Wasilla stood up to her and the Librarian did too and Palin eventually had to back down...Which is what we gotta do with the Rethuglicans.
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From:[info]iamarapgod
Date:September 8th, 2008 03:51 am (UTC)
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what happened to the assassins?
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From:[info]papananook
Date:September 8th, 2008 09:50 am (UTC)
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C'mon-- Nobody kills the bad guys in 'Merikan Politics...And BTW--I'm a Pacifist so take that weak shit somewhere else.
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From:[info]iamarapgod
Date:September 8th, 2008 10:59 am (UTC)
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it was a joke. what have been the major political assassinations of the past...martin, and john, aand robert.
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From:[info]papananook
Date:September 8th, 2008 01:12 pm (UTC)
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I guess I don't find Assassinations funny in any way...I was 15 when JFK was killed by the CIA/Pentagon tool Oswald and 20 when RFK and MLK were killed by other Gov't tools in L>A. and Memphis. Please don't joke about that...If Obama doesn't blow the election and actually DOES stand up to the Corporations, there's a good chance they will try to kill him, too. Not funny at all.
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From:[info]iamarapgod
Date:September 8th, 2008 03:39 pm (UTC)
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I'm sorry dude, but what are you on about?
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From:[info]papananook
Date:September 8th, 2008 04:51 pm (UTC)
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i don't know what yer trip is, I'm NOT a "dude" and fuhgetaboudit!
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From:[info]rudimentation
Date:September 8th, 2008 12:06 pm (UTC)

Source??

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Can you tell us how you came by this list? Is it available online?
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From:[info]crataegus
Date:September 8th, 2008 12:30 pm (UTC)
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The list has been debunked.
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From:[info]papananook
Date:September 8th, 2008 01:16 pm (UTC)
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Altho this list is a hoax, Palin's try at banning books isn't...she's a narrow-minded clown. Anyone who wants to ban books, no matter what they are is a tool of their own ideology. Stoopid dumb Alaskan twit.
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From:[info]__theanalogkid
Date:September 8th, 2008 01:22 pm (UTC)
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Old meme.
From:[info]bigkahuna13
Date:September 9th, 2008 01:24 pm (UTC)

You are kidding, right?

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How could you believe this is even true? You thought # 89 (THE FREAKIN' DICTIONARY) was banned? To Kill A Mockingbird (# 87)? Shakespeare? You guys will believe ANYTHING!

Maybe you should have checked here first sheeple: http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/bannedbooks.asp
From:[info]ash_farr
Date:September 10th, 2008 03:39 am (UTC)

is this the best you've got?

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what exactly does this say about her? she doesn't like some books.... okay... she doesn't think some are appropriate.... okay... so it's a lil lame, oh well. it didn't pass and she moved on with life.... what the crap does this have to do... with anything?
From:[info]ewalk57
Date:September 10th, 2008 05:42 pm (UTC)

Palin's Ban List

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This is unbelievable - many are classics in American Literature that we all grew up on. And. when you want to ban William Shakespeare, you have to go back where you came from. You can't be on the national scene!!!!

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