Banned Books

[drew]

Actually, this is a very good reading list. If you read all the books listed, you would have a solid foundation of important, meaningful, well written books. Quite an educational, really.

(My hat's off to anyone finishing Ulysses; that's just plain hard work.)

That's not the only Joyce book that's a chore to read. I haven't read Ulysses but I can imagine after tangling with others.

 

[isher]

I believe that "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is Joyce's shortest work; little more than a novella.

However, it is chock full of horribly twisted events, dreams, fantasies and other stuff which richly deserves to be at least banned if not burned, like all of Joyce's works.

Isher

 

[Ballistic]

If you really want to suffer, pick up Finnegan's Wake.

 

[Cougfan2]

WOW! Some of those books were assigned reading when I was in school. No cracks about my age or reading by kerosene lamp light.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Google Map of banned books from 2008-2010. West Coast is doing a **** of a lot better than the other side of the country.

Book Bans and Challenges, 2007-2010 - Google Maps

I see several incidents where a library patron refused to return the book as part of their challenge, so other patrons donate copies themselves. Fantastic!