Further to my preceding post, why not call over to Kylie Betzner’s blog and do the poll – just for fun 😀
Happy Banned Book Week! For those of you who aren’t familiar, this week falls on the last week of September and is dedicated to raising awareness and celebrating freedom of speech in literature. To be honest, most of you have probably heard of Banned Book Week, or at least you’ve read a banned book (either because it was banned or simply because it was an awesome book). Some of you may have even written a book that would top the Banned Book list. For fun, please take the poll below. If you could have your book banned for any reason, what would it be?
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Imagine having your book banned. Oh-well there is no such thing as bad publicity. If it’s banned people will talk about it. Thanks for sharing this post! Imagine having any booked banned in the twenty or twenty first century. Ridiculous. Think about it, though, some great authors were banned. I would be honored to have my book banned., especially if it is for a cause I believe in. My first novel, Shattered Lies is due for release in 2015 and I have no doubt that the subject matter of racial issues will upset a great number of readers.
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Can apes of the blogging variety be viewed as subversive? I mean I have heard stories of one such ape who drops in on unsuspecting authors, helps himself to their bananas without a by your leave and makes his escape leaving only the banana skin behind!
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Absolutely Kevin – I know this miscreant personally and berate myself (I mean HIM) every time lol 😀 😀 😀
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I believe that J S Mill’s argument in his 1859 essay, On Liberty is correct. Namely that we should allow the free flow of ideas as banning specific ideas inhibits progress. We may, in fact believe an idea to be wrong when, in fact it is correct or at the very least contains an element of truth. Even if an idea is wrong prohibiting it stifles liberty. In point of fact the growth of the internet makes it increasingly difficult to ban books or the ideas contained in them as works banned in one country are often found online and can be accessed (from the country in which they are prohibited) by going online. Even with internet filters the growth of proxies means that those with a modest knowledge of IT can often circumvent them and access banned material including books.
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Unless certain Security Corporations deemed the requestor a potential subversive and went after them Kevin 😀
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I WAS banned by the KOBO and W H Smiths, for the series title. (The Banned Underground). The content wasn’t even looked at…
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WOW!
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I’ve just been banned (your preceding post 😉 )
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NOT BY ME MASSIMO 😀 😀 😀
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I enjoyed reading authors’ replies to ‘ban this book’.
I’m flattered to be even only slightly put in the same context with them.
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