The American Library Association (ALA) has revealed 10 books that got the toughest time in America and which some of the public have tried with all their power to ban in the democratic land where the freedom to read is part of the rights of everyone. Hahahaha not really, they want to ban books on homosexuality, adolescence and vampires in the 21st century like the Puritan bitches they are.
The ALA aren't all that evil though, they work on a bases of complaints from parents and other usually moaning Christians, who whimper through their phlegm gelled lungs that the world was created in seven days, homosexuals are evil etcetera these wackos should be burned, requests for their burning, send to ALA at http://www.ala.org/
The most shocking inclusion on the list is number 1 and 10; number 1 is the children's story of two male penguins who bring up a chick with a positive message for children to learn in this day and age.The children's author Melvin Burgess encapsulated the reasons for any backlash on such a positive story, she points out that the very small amount of people, minuscule really that are against the book, does not give the media enough of a story to report so "They want a ding-dong, so they invite someone from Mad Bitches Against Gay People [onto their programme]."
Number 10 is the massively popular Twilight which has of course been churned into the Hollywood machine and made Robert Pattinson a household name. It is laughable that someone could find the vampires in the book would corrupt the religious values of their children which is what the complaints about the book were.
Barbara Jones who speaks with a lot of sense is the director of ALA's office for intellectual freedom has said:
While we firmly support the right of every reader to choose or reject a book for themselves or their families, those objecting to a particular book should not be given the power to restrict other readers' right to access and read that book [...] As members of a pluralistic and complex society, we must have free access to a diverse range of viewpoints on the human condition in order to foster critical thinking and understanding.
This list was aimed at schools and libraries:
1. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson (The story about penguins, two male penguins who bring up a chick.)
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
6. Lush by Natasha Friend
7. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich
9. Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology edited by Amy Sonnie
10. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
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