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Playinghardball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:22 PM Original message |
Brave New World the third most challenged book in America |
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palm_to_forehead (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. People love to cite 1984... |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. guess i have another book to add to my list after i finish the handmaid's tale. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Depends on where you live, and how far you step out of line. |
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palm_to_forehead (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Most certainly |
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catnhatnh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. You call it "dystopian"... |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. note the readers' choice for top 100 books: |
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Richard D (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. vote bombing . . . |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. That's creepy. Rand and El Ron. Blech. nt |
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Daphne08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
5. Unbelievable. I read it in high school |
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davidthegnome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
7. Going to have to read that one |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:12 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Huxley is well worth a read. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
8. Too realistic for our modern "sensitivities". nt |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
10. I've taught it and never had a problem. |
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postulater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 08:42 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Amazing. I just found that Collins trilogy on my wife's bookshelf. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:26 PM Response to Original message |
11. I taught it. There is no "sexually explicit content." |
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PufPuf23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
13. Aldous Huxley was a fine mind, man, and writer. |
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Keith Bee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
15. "Distractions" |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
17. "Brave New World" for the upper and upper middle classes |
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