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Let's read Mein Kampf while we're at it! *NM* Great Lord of Chaos Send a noteboard - 27/09/2010 11:37:39 PM
There's been rather a to-do at Twitter for the past week or two. It's over the latest attempts to censor Laurie Halse Anderson's book <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_(novel)">Speak</a>. This is because the Young Adult book is about a victim of rape. Some parents feel that their children shouldn't be reading that sort of thing.

So all sorts of people the world over have been adding the hashtag #SpeakLoudly to related posts in a show of support for Anderson and other authors whose books show up frequently in Banned Book list.

Makes me want to read To Kill A Mockingbird again. But not The Catcher in the Rye. Ick.
Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
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Are you reading anything special for Banned Books Week? - 27/09/2010 07:31:32 PM 1206 Views
The concept remains very strange to me. - 27/09/2010 09:17:53 PM 1115 Views
Indeed. - 27/09/2010 11:44:00 PM 833 Views
Re: Indeed. - 28/09/2010 12:20:24 AM 855 Views
Let's read Mein Kampf while we're at it! *NM* - 27/09/2010 11:37:39 PM 443 Views
My Oma has a 1930s copy of Mein Kampf which is bound with pages from the Bible. - 27/09/2010 11:42:24 PM 833 Views
Dare I ask why? *NM* - 28/09/2010 12:10:18 AM 371 Views
Because she can, I guess. - 28/09/2010 06:13:48 PM 828 Views
LOL wow... *NM* - 29/09/2010 07:42:38 PM 387 Views
Not at the moment - 28/09/2010 12:33:10 AM 805 Views
Yes! - 28/09/2010 01:08:44 AM 819 Views
I may re-read Candide - 28/09/2010 01:44:47 AM 878 Views
I didn't know about it. - 28/09/2010 02:38:30 AM 894 Views
Everybook I read is special to me - 28/09/2010 12:46:45 PM 810 Views
I might read de Sade again or something. *NM* - 28/09/2010 07:57:02 PM 442 Views
The Way of Kings - 28/09/2010 09:57:18 PM 852 Views
Royalist propaganda *NM* - 29/09/2010 09:32:59 PM 392 Views
Whatever my Great Books professor tells me to read. *NM* - 28/09/2010 10:31:03 PM 475 Views
I don't know if this counts... - 29/09/2010 03:20:04 AM 832 Views
Re: I'm using my "I read books for me and not for my principles" card. - 29/09/2010 09:03:32 PM 847 Views

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