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Jumper
Michael Barnes wrote:
"There was a book?"
Steven Gould, Jumper, Tor, 1992. He also wrote Wildside in 1996, about a parallel world. Both are excellent.
MWChapel wrote:
"Not just a book, but one of the top 100 most banned books in the US "
I guess "banned" reads better than "most frequently challenged"? I've been wracking my brain as to what possible objection there could be to Jumper. The American Library Association website doesn't appear to give the reasons. The only thing I could come up with is maybe he was confused with Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary biologist.
May have to do with the "magic" ability thing, like the fuss over Potter. I'm curious why number 98 is there. That one looks like a good read to me.
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Probably the same fuckers that developed Websense. And what's funny, is that the people who are generally behind banning these books are typically the kinkiest fucks on the planet.....that top 100 most banned books in the US kind of makes me sad.
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Druen Kree wrote:
Probably the same fuckers that developed Websense. And what's funny, is that the people who are generally behind banning these books are typically the kinkiest fucks on the planet.....that top 100 most banned books in the US kind of makes me sad.
It has to be the same people who try to ban these books year after year, because I'm actually amazed at how many of those books I've read in school myself.
Now, I have to admit that this list is almost 10 years old, so things might have changed in the intervening time, but you'd think that there would be a lot more SF/F/Horror novels on the list than there are. Why are these people concerned about The Chocolate War (good book, btw) when they should be more concerned about more direct affronts on their sensibilities, such as Dune or The Golden Compass?
--Mike L.
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