I did a bad bad thing!

This week, Sept 29 to Oct 3 2008 is banned books week. The following is a list of books that have been banned at one time or another or challenged that are in our public library and schools over the years in the U.S.A. And how do I know this? I now work for the the library! My dream job! This is just a list that I was able to find,so if there any mistakes its all mine. Out of that list I have read 33 of them. I see that not all the Harry Potter books are on the list so I would have to add more to my 33 if they do get put on the list, also I have all the Tarzan books, and I just checked, there is 23 of them, so add that to my 33. And I think I have read almost all of Stephen King books. better add them, And I know I have read all of Dean Koontz, better add them to the list! Boy, I'm getting up there! The way I feel about books is that you don't have to read it if you don't like it! Its easy not to pick up a book then to turn off the T.V.! And I have read some bad books! Lets talk about James Patterson! I used to like his books, but that past 5 or so books of his? BAD! talk about drivel! Oh, dont get me started! Oops, you did! Let talk about Nicholas Sparks! I liked one or two of his, but for the most part, drivel! I have had oatmeal that had more umph to it then his books! "Bridges of Madison County" drivel! I would rather eat lumpy oatmeal then have to read that book again! When I was younger I was into SciFi books, I picked up a book called "Slave girl of Gor" I tossed (hurled) that across the room, just a bad bad book! I would rather poke a fork in my eye then to see that again. Sad thing about that book is that there is a series of them, and there are groups of people that follow that in their life? Google it! Its just weird! I still like SciFi , check out a writer by the name of Octavia Butler, she has some good SciFi books. The first book of hers that I read was
" Kindred " I was hooked on her books after that, but that's just MHO. I would tell people about books that I enjoyed but I would never tell somebody that they cant read what they want. So if " Slave girl of Gor" is up your ally, have at it, I just wont join your discussion group! In fact I would probably avoid you! As I would think that you are a freak! Heres the list. Have you been bad?



A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleAnnie
on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth