"Well, It Finally Happened"

[kane_magus]

One of John Scalzi's books was finally banned by the RWNJs, as he discusses in this post on his blog. (Though he says he'll have more to say about it later, once he returns from the JoCo Cruise. I look forward to it.)

Also, this, which Mr. Scalzi linked to in his post there. That link there contains this list of all the books that were "restricted" and "weeded" (because of SB13) by the New Braunfels Independent School District.

Here is a sampling of other books that were "weeded" (the vast majority of these just have "Adult Tag" as the "rationale," so I'll just note the ones that have a different "rationale."):

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• Every A Song of Ice and Fire book. A Storm of Swords got listed for "Indecent Content," but the rest just got the usual "Adult Tag."
• A Clockwork Orange
• Alexander Hamilton, the one that, you know, Hamilton was based on.
• Carrie, apparently "weeded" twice, because it's on the list twice, both for "Adult Tag."
• Cujo
• Fables
• Gone with the Wind
• Insomnia
• Les Misérables
• Mein Kampf
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Misery
• Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight (linking to Goodreads here, because it apparently doesn't have a Wikipedia page)
• Pet Sematary, apparently so bad it was on the list three times, all for "Adult Tag."
• Prince Lestat, the only Anne Rice book on the list.
• Rainbow Six, yet another that was on the list twice, for whatever inane reason ("Adult Tag" for both).
• Speaker for the Dead
• Stan Lee: A Life in Comics (Goodreads link, no Wikipedia page)
• The American Journey of Barack Obama (Goodreads, no Wiki)
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Drawing of the Three, though none of the other The Dark Tower books are on the list, unless I just missed them.
• The Duck Commander Family (Goodreads, no WP)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• The Outsider
• The Pelican Brief
• The Pillars of the Earth
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Skies of Pern
• The Stand
• The Testaments, listed twice, once for "Indecent Content" and once for "Adult Tag."
• The Three Musketeers
• Thinner
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (GR no WP)
• War and Peace
• And at least a thousand more...

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And here is a sampling from the list of books that were apparently "merely" moved to the "Restricted Section" with the "rationale" for all of them being "AP LIT." (Because, surely, we just can't let children and teenagers read any of these. Honestly, this list seems even more asinine to me than the previous one, which was already pretty goddamned asinine.):

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• All the King's Men
• Anna Karenina
• Brave New World
• Catch-22
• Crime and Punishment
• David Copperfield
• Death of a Salesman
• Don Quixote
• Dracula
• Fahrenheit 451
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Frankenstein
• Great Expectations
• Jane Eyre
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sense and Sensibility
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Catcher in the Rye
• The Color Purple
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Crucible
• The Glass Menagerie
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Great Gatsby
• The Odyssey
• Wuthering Heights
• And some more, but I almost just transcribed that whole list. What in the actual, legitimate, sincere, shitting ass fuck.

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And here is a different list, which apparently contains extras that weren't in the previous linked list (including the one mentioned in that The Bloggess post). It also has some that were deemed "SB13 compliant." I won't be sampling this list here.

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*weary motherfucking sigh + smgdh + eye roll*

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Anyway...

Just to note, Lock In is a pretty cool book (as is the sequel, Head On). Not sure why the RWNJs decided to ban it (or any of the others)... I mean, aside from the typical dumbshit asininity that is innate and inherent and intrinsic to RWNJs, of course.

Comments

[alterin]

These lists are such a weird mix of the traditional canon that I try to shy away from teaching, but are definitely the most commonly taught books in high school and books that are just mindless, popcorn fun books (and extra shout out to stuff like Rainbow Six which I imagine is up there with a Seagull flick in levels of conservative hero worship).