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How is it easier to ban a book then read and discuss it from an informed point of view. It's lazy parenting at its core. Read it together so you can give your pont of view. Learn with your children and help them develop as skills for the future.

The little fucker will burn in Hell with the book!

Great. My favorite book from high school is on the chopping block...again. High school in the early 80s was filled with the children of kooks from the Moral Majority trying to remove books from our library. Thankfully, reason won out and they didn't succeed. For North Lebanon students, I hope it works the same for them. Perhaps the kid should bring home Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 so his parents can learn something about censorship.

Great. My favorite book from high school is on the chopping block...again. It was the one book I read in high school that let me I was a normal 15 year old.

High school (for me) in the early 80s was filled with the children of kooks from the Moral Majority trying to remove books (and J.D. Salinger was one of the authors they wanted gone) from our library. Thankfully, reason won out and they didn't succeed. For North Berwick students, I hope it works the same for them. Perhaps the kid should bring home Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 so his parents can learn something about censorship.

I'm sorry - I just can't get past the comment that she had never heard of "The Catcher in the Rye."

haha yeah who hasn't heard of Catcher in the Rye?? Who are these people.

I remember when I was in h.s., The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was banned, but it was on our AP test. Great education I had...

My favourite part is how the comments after the story—that were posted by teenagers—use a far superior logic.

The deja in this just won't stop vu-ing. Is Ronald Reagan in the White House again? Is Tipper Gore going to start fussing about the evil in music? Holy shit.

Oh, ok, I see...

A book that was required reading from the Mom's time period, and it still is in many places. Now it’s a threat? A book she has never read is a threat? I wonder what little Spencer is hearing from his classmates or seeing on TV; I am sure it's far worse than anything that is in that book. If she had any idea what little Spencer did and said in school, she would home school him immediately.

People have allowed things like reality TV and other inane crap on the tube to creep into their homes without any resistance, yet they pick up something so unimportant like this classic book and pounce all over it. What's next, Cat's Cradle?

WTF?!

It blows my mind that this woman from Lebanon hasn't heard of "Catcher in the Rye".Speaking of Lebanon, she's probably so ignorant that she doesn't know that there is a country called Lebanon.I wonder if she knows who John Lennon is or what book Mark David Chapman was carrying that fateful day.If you want to censor a book lets start with the bible,otherwise known as the "Mein Kampf" for evangelical christians like George Bush,remember what he said "You're either with us or against us!" I'm so glad I'm Canadian!

you know, the Nazi's banned alot of books

you just know that same mom lets her kids watch 'desperate housewives' or 'wife swap' or some other useless and disposable crap.

it's comforting to know that "catcher" will outlive every single person who's ever tried to destroy it. holden will always be more memorable than every two bit idiot who tries to ban it.

She doesn't want her child to read a certain book (or presumably, the Sparknotes version of the book either) -- fine. But when she tries to ban everyone else from reading it so that her child won't "miss out" on discussion time, she crosses the line.

To my mind, the issue is not so much about censorship (she thinks it might be OK for older kids) but rather that she wants to avoid the consequences of her actions. And what sort of lesson is that to teach her child?

"Come to think of it Andrea, he was talking about you."

That hits the nail on the head. Why are they always going after Catcher in the Rye? On the subject of bad language or sexual situations, there are books FAR worse.

It's because it exposes phonies as phonies, and because it rails against hypocrites. They are the book's targets.

These Pharisees don't recognize real morality, or they would realize that Holden Caulfield is a REAL crusader of righteousness.

So how is this chick any different than Harvey Weinstein when he was trying to get all the movie distribution companies to not distribute Passion of the Christ. Did everyone else freak out like this when that story broke? By the way, I agree wholeheartedly with you. Catcher in the Rye is one of the best books ever for a teenager to read, and this chick is nuts. Just wondering if everyone is as outraged against all actions of this sort and not just the ones perpetrated or proposed by crazy right wing women - cuz it ain't just them doin' it.

white buffalo, you are un-fucked, for the moment.

I'm not even sure what that means, MM, but thanks!

Unfucked is a good thing buffalo.

You are absolutely correct that it needs to be applied on both sides. I think we have far less to apologize for on that count than does the right-wing.

Anyone remember how St. Martin's Press caved with the book about the evildoer "Fortunate Son?"

That book was yanked off the market before the ink was dry. The author, J. H. Hatfield's prison term was disclosed and it was gone.

It finally did make it back to press and "unfortunate author" J. H. Hatfield killed himself.

Damn I wish my daddy owned judges in Houston and I could go from felon to "hatchet man" or mule, so to speck. Thats it, my new handle, "hatchet mule."

With God as my waitress, I'm roundin' up a posse and make everyone sign loyalty oaths on my sack of oats. Do as I say, not as I do, or die!

Then

It's entartete Kunst all over again.

"Minors were barred from the show, the pretext being that decent German youth needed to be shielded from the depth of the artworks' obscenity, lest the future of the Reich be corrupted."

http://www.olinda.com/ArtAndIdeas/lectures/ArtWeDontLike/entarteteKunst.htm

I am sure that lady's son tortures cats and masturbates to Britney Spears videos.

Morons of the world unite to take over.

"Before filing her complaint, Minnon said, she and her husband researched the book using Sparknotes, an online study guide. She is now reading the book."

So not only had this waste of fucking space never heard of the book, she demanded it be banned (read 'burned') before she had even read it!

There's no reasoning with these people, they're completely insane. Why do we allow them to reproduce?

Now I think about it, I wonder why the hell didn't whoever she was filing her complaint with ask her the simple question, "have you read it?" and then when she said no laugh hysterically at her as if the whole complaint was a prank.

I don't believe this: the Harry Potter series is #2 on the list because of -- get this -- the "focus on wizardry and magic".

What the hell do you call VIRGIN birth???