110BannedBooks

by Candy Saturday, March 05, 2005 at 12:33 AM

Thanks to Jay, here’s a list of 110 banned books. I’m jumping in late on this game, but what the hell. Bolded items are books I’ve read, italicized items are books I’ve read partially.

1 Indicates I first read it in college
2 Indicates I first read it before I was 16 years old (actually, a lot of them I read before I turned 12)
3 Indicates that I think it’s one of the greatest books ever written

I’m so grateful my mom and dad allowed me to read anything I wanted. Well, OK, not anything, they did make an effort to hide actual pornography from me, though I found Dad’s stash of Playboys when I was 10 years old (and was completely horrified by the sight of pubic hair). Then when I was around 17 years old and they realized I was going to go to college some time soon and live on my own, they started freaking out about my movie and book choices, which was really funny because man, talk about the horse having long bolted from this particular barn… Here’s an example: I was reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind one day, and this particular edition’s cover was a close-up of some old painting featuring a nude girl sleeping. Very tasteful, very pretty. And my dad freaked out. “Mummy, come see what your daughter is reading!” he yelled. They didn’t stop me from reading the book, though, just gave me a really dirty look and fussed over the “indecent” cover.

And really, if they’d actually read Perfume, I think the cover would’ve been the least of their objections.

Anyway, enough babbling, on to the list!

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Picture of Jay Jay said on...
03.07.05 at 07:46 PM |

Wow, not only bolded but also indexed by date read...that’s awesome. I was tired of bolding the books about half way in.

In the meantime, however, whoo hoo! I’m a smart bitch!

also as an aside, my type-this-to-prove-you’re-not-a-spambot thingy (i cant remember the name of it) is car52. wouldnt it be that much more fun if it was car54? Or am I the only loser around here?

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