I found this in the email this morning and found it rather interesting. Borders UK is having a banned book sale. 40% of books that have been banned.
Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Dark by John McGahern
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
American Psycho by Bret Easton Elli
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Germinal by Emile Zola
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H Lawrence
Common Sense & the Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Go to the site to see why a particular book was banned.
I don’t know if they are doing the same thing at Borders here in the States but, it’s a good idea. It calls attention to some important books.
Maybe they should have a banned book section at the library. You know; Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, Banned…
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Kenski wrote,
Now I feel positively conformist. Of the whole list I’ve only actually read 6 of them… though I’ve seen ‘the movie’ of several others.
I’ve never seen Clockwork Orange, either… though I have the DVD sitting unwatched in my cabinet.
Link | September 19th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Kenski wrote,
Interestingly…
“American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis: One of the most disturbingly violent books of recent years, American Psycho caused controversy before it was even published, with it’s original publishers dropping it and the New York Times urging people not to buy it. In Germany, Australia and New Zealand it was shrink wrapped and sold only to over-18s. However, it’s a classic that says a huge amount Western society, and you can skip the nasty bits, although they are no worse than the violent scenes in many crime novels published in recent years”
I have a pretty strong stomach and had no problem with watching the movie adaptation. When I read the book, however, there were scenes which made me sick to my stomach and on two separate occasions I came this close (picture fingers pinched together) to giving up on it and throwing it in trash.
Now, on the one hand I actually think it’s a good (clever) book, but it’s truly disgusting. Goes to show the power of (in)human imagination.
Link | September 19th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
I think a composer from Japan is featured in the Clockwork Orange movie; Tomita.. no?
Born in 1932 in Tokyo, Isao Tomita (Tomita Isao in Japanese) was an established composer of conventional classical music until he was captivated by Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach, a 1968 album containing synthesized interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach.
OOps… it is Wendy [aka Walter] Carlos who influenced Tomita who did Clockwork O’s soundtrack… “Title Music from A Clockwork Orange”[2], Wendy Carlos, credited as Walter Carlos… etc.
[...] anyhow, Mr Kenski, you should watch it. Maybe not your collector’s copy, but “Malcolm McDowell as the charismatic and psychopathic delinquent Alex DeLarge whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and ultraviolence…. soundtrack comprising mostly classical music selections and Moog synthesizer compositions by Wendy (then Walter) Carlos. One notable exception is “Singing in the Rain,” which was chosen because it was a song actor Malcolm McDowell knew all the words to. (attributed to: why Iki peed ya’s)
Link | September 19th, 2008 at 10:48 am
J wrote,
Popcorn(Kingsley) , Switched-on Bach(Carlos), Tubular Bells (Oldfield), & Tomita’s The Planets. Classics!
Jack, any lists of banned records floating about?
Link | September 20th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Pribek wrote,
Good idea J, I’m going to look in to that. Of course I’ve heard stories going way back about songs like “Gloomy Sunday” and “Strange Fruit” all the way up to profanity laced hip hop stuff. I’d like to fing a somehat comprehensive scholarly study of it though.
Link | September 20th, 2008 at 2:07 pm