Missouri high school banned Slaughterhouse-Five; Vonnegut Library offers free copies for students.

[khakidoggy]

This pertains to a post I wrote at the start of this year about the censoring of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, where Nigger Jim was renamed Slave Jim for modern audiences.

Comments

[toob]

"Give me knowledge or give me death!"
--Kurt Vonnegut

Well, we know he didn't get knowledge, I guess.

[khakidoggy]

Too soon? Nah :)

[rattuskid]

Vonnegut specifically targets a young adult reader. Hell, a lot of Slaughterhouse Five is autobiographical. The bit with the carnage of a fire-bombed Dresden, where flame-throwers had to be used to dispose of the bodies... That's Vonnegut's experience. It's a crime to rob a reader of that.

Then again, these are the same kind of idiots who ban Fahrenheit 451 from libraries without getting a hint of the irony.

[khakidoggy]

Fahrenheit 451? That's fantastic. Do you have a link to an article about that occurrence? :)

[rattuskid]

I remember reading about it in a list. Probably formed off this AARP article, but it gives no specifics.

http://pubs.aarp.org/aarpbulletin/201009_NJ/?pg=39&pm=2&u1=friend#pg39

However, it's on two other lists.

http://www.banned-books.com/bblista-i.html

This book is about censorship and those who ban books for fear of creating too much individualism and independent thought. In late 1998, this book was removed from the required reading list of the West Marion High School in Foxworth, Mississippi. A parent complained of the use of the words "God damn" in the book. Subsequently, the superintendent instructed the the teacher to remove the book from the required reading list.

and...

http://www.highlands.edu/academics/library/banned/books.htm

Expurged at the Venada Middle