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[niamhaevalnimue]

I haven't read Thirteen Reasons Why yet so I'm not quite sure what it's about, but it's on the NYT bestsellers list, again. And I thought it would be too much for my YA section. Silly me. Now it looks like I'm adding it to my list of stuff that I should have read when I first saw it. And to think I had an ARC of this one.

This is an interesting

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[niamhaevalnimue]

exactly. Reading is work. Why would I want to do more of it than I have to unless I want too? Makes complete sense to me. I only read stuff I enjoyed, academic or otherwise in college.

[penella22]

Hmm...I was assigned some controversial books during my college education previously...but that was mostly during the year I attended a fairly radical 'no grades' college where I was attending classes with titled like "Pattern of Wealth and Poverty" and "How Media, Big Business and Politics create unTV." So yeah...some controversial books assigned in there. But on my own...what came out that was controversial really???

As for now...what's considered controversial right now? What would these college students be reading if they were reading those controversial books??

I'm curious. I want to read them (or at least skim through them before tackling my 300 pages on Python programming.) ;)

[niamhaevalnimue]

In the article they mention A. Nin's poetry and the journals of Sylvia Plath. I don't really know what would be considered controversial nowadays. erotica? (does that count?)