You may have noticed that the Independent is promoting a series of "banned books" which they launched by giving away a hardback edition of A Clockwork Orange. The only problem with that is that ACO has never been "banned". True, Kubrick withdrew the film from circulation during his lifetime, but AFAIK there have never been any restrictions on the sale of the book. The best they can come up with (in the Introduction to the free edition) is that it was "removed from two Alabama high school libraries in the 1980s". I'm sure that doesn't take much. Oh and BTW it's a pretty shoddy edition, the pages started coming away from the spine while I was reading it, unlike my old Penguin paperback which is sitll intact after 30 years or so.
Actually, A Clockwork Orange was indeed banned in many libraries throughout the United States. Including Alabama, Colorado, and Rhode Island.
Also, how could I get these books? And how hard do you turn the pages, or hold them, for them to come from the spine?:tongue:
yea i have the clockwork orange book.,..my dad gave it me to read, but i read the back and it looks too scary for me so i dont want it
I was curious when I saw SlaughterHouse Five on the upcoming list. I never knew that was banned either. Autumn ... you are missing out. Nothing scary in the book really, at least not in my opinion. The movie is excellent as well. Still a poignant look at where law enforcement under certain governments could go.
You should, it's fantastic, one of my favourite books And if the rules are that the book just has to have been banned somewhere, by someone, you just need to look at China and you can have pretty much any book ever published in that series
My old English teacher once left a copy of Animal Farm in his bag when travelling to the USSR avec his English group Not pretty.
yea but the topics covered in it scare me, im a complete wuss, scared by all sorts of things, screws my head up
well, ACO came free with the Saturday Feb 24th(?) Independent; the rest of the series are low-priced, not free, and you have to order them somehow. Couldn't tell you exactly as I didn't keep the rest of the paper. And I can assure you there was no rough handling, they must have just used some cheap glue. The only other books that's happened with lately were Wordsworth Classics.
Would they happen to have the books at the bigger chainstores, such as WHSmith? Perhaps under the counter, or something? I swear by Penguin books for durability.:tongue:
It wasn't too bad, after ages of interrogation and whatever they just took the book off him and let him go in. That was AMAZINGLY lucky. But it was really scary for everyone, just having to wait and see what happened...
