If you could ban any book in the world, what would it be?

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Egyptian group wants to censor Arabic classic

Lawyers Without Shackles seeks to delete salacious passages from contemporary literature and cherished classics. Its campaign against 'The Arabian Nights' is part of a growing religious conservatism.


Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-book-ban-20100711,0,5439563.story

This got me to thinking, if YOU could ban any book in the world, what would it be?

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If you mean to make illegal I would choose none. If you mean to destroy all copies and cause to fall from the memory of mankind I would choose the Quran, with the bible being a close second.

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anything remotely bible or religon related would be an excellent start

but we beleive in free speech unlike the guys who write the books like that so i guess we cant be hypocrites and they can have their say

[jakee 1,254]

Fahrenheit 451.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[yoink 321]

Retroactively?

Take your pick from just about any holy book.

[captain1976 0]

An Inconvenient TruthBy Al Gore. Not to ban it of course but re-categorize it as a prime example of how some worthless idiot profited over an issue that means nothing and does nothing but blur the truth for money.

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Child porn.

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Egyptian group wants to censor Arabic classic

Lawyers Without Shackles seeks to delete salacious passages from contemporary literature and cherished classics. Its campaign against 'The Arabian Nights' is part of a growing religious conservatism.


Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-book-ban-20100711,0,5439563.story

This got me to thinking, if YOU could ban any book in the world, what would it be?

Tale of Two Cities. There are far, far better books to make these points than Dickens does in this unreadable drivel; there is a far, far better place to look than an 8th grade summer reading list to enlighten your mind than I have ever known before.

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Also, any abridged version of any book ever written.

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Fahrenheit 451.

I wouldn't ban it. I would burn it.

"For you see, an airplane is an airplane. A landing area is a landing area. But a dropzone... a dropzone is the people."

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Tale of Two Cities. There are far, far better books to make these points than Dickens does in this unreadable drivel; there is a far, far better place to look than an 8th grade summer reading list to enlighten your mind than I have ever known before.

God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore.

(with apologies to Mel Brooks)

"For you see, an airplane is an airplane. A landing area is a landing area. But a dropzone... a dropzone is the people."

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Egyptian group wants to censor Arabic classic

Lawyers Without Shackles seeks to delete salacious passages from contemporary literature and cherished classics. Its campaign against 'The Arabian Nights' is part of a growing religious conservatism.


Story: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-egypt-book-ban-20100711,0,5439563.story

This got me to thinking, if YOU could ban any book in the world, what would it be?

Bible.

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Fahrenheit 451.

...read a lil bit, didn't finish.

*refers back to the deep recesses of the brain*

wait.....didn't it have something to do with burning books?

oh....I get it now...haha.

(seriously though)

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anything remotely bible or religon related would be an excellent start

but we beleive in free speech

But if we didn't, I bet u'd be right along with those that imprisons or kills anyone that tries to smuggle them or, Luci-forbid, tries to live by them...just like in many countries TODAY.

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The story of "O" that book changed my life forever

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[Skyrad 0]

Harry Potter

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Child porn.

Its already banned John

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anything remotely bible or religon related would be an excellent start

but we beleive in free speech unlike the guys who write the books like that so i guess we cant be hypocrites and they can have their say

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My vision of God depends upon the state of my character. Character determines revelation. Before I can say "I saw also the Lord," there must be something corresponding to God in my character. Until I am born again and begin to see the Kingdom of God, I see along the line of my prejudices only; I need the surgical operation of external events and an internal purification. ~ Oswald Chambers

For the OP question, none.

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As many, I'd definitely go with religious books... All of them deserve to be burned- but picking one is the difficult part.

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But if we didn't, I bet u'd be right along with those that imprisons or kills anyone that tries to smuggle them or, Luci-forbid, tries to live by them...just like in many countries TODAY.

you would lose that bet

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Serious answer: None. Not a single one. If you consider the types that want to ban stuff, they always want to control how you think. They claim to be "protecting the children" or to be "offended" or "insulted" by the books, but mainly they want to stop people from getting ideas they don't like. This does not include things that require hurting innocent people to produce it, like child porn.

Just like freedom of speech, if I want to express ideas that others don't like, I have to allow them to express ideas that I don't like.

Not so serious answer (but think about it a little): I do favor reasonable restrictions on them and the people who read them. Required education so that the reader can differentiate between truth and fiction. Limits on the length of the books and the number of plot twists in a given book. Requiring locks on them so that untrained people can't misuse them.

Since the pen is mightier than the sword, shouldn't there be similar restrictions??

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Child porn.

Its already banned John

Besides, it's not a book in the context of this conversation. That's like calling Mad Magazine a book. Shhhesh, John.

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The SIM

What's a SIM? (sarcasm)

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you would lose that bet

Yeah, that's usually how it goes when I make bets...I probably could've/should've phrased it in a way that wasn't directed toward you specifically.

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