tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post7442677979994891808..comments2023-11-09T22:51:59.986-05:00Comments on Dreaming About Other Worlds: Book Blogger Hop October 5th - October 11th: Exponential Thermostellar Bomb Number 20 Threatened to Detonate in the Dark Star's Bomb BayAaron Poundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11747596648152141394noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-13443460252879093652012-10-06T16:39:24.232-04:002012-10-06T16:39:24.232-04:00@Cheryl: Yep. Trying to ban Fahrenheit 451 is pret...@Cheryl: Yep. Trying to ban <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> is pretty much the very definition of irony.Aaron Poundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11747596648152141394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-19834013530923173692012-10-06T16:38:33.300-04:002012-10-06T16:38:33.300-04:00@gabrielreads: Yes, the rallying cry of book banne...@gabrielreads: Yes, the rallying cry of book banners is usually "protect the children". But if they are concerned with what their children are reading, then they can handle that matter for themselves. The real reason that book banners usually want books banned is not to protect their own children - their poor children are probably already forbidden to read anything more controversial than <i>Goodnight Moon</i> - but rather to get those books out of the hands of <i>your</i> children, and <i>my</i> children.<br /><br />And also out of the hands of you and me. They arrogate to themselves the right to choose what you and your family should and should not know. Book banners who come saying "think of the children" are nothing more than wolfish tyrants dressed in sheep's clothing.Aaron Poundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11747596648152141394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-20576330242725727822012-10-06T16:30:51.088-04:002012-10-06T16:30:51.088-04:00@erlessard: One thing I am passionate about is the...@erlessard: One thing I am passionate about is the free press. Anyone who wants to ban a book is, in my opinion, far more dangerous than any book could possibly be.Aaron Poundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11747596648152141394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-14754843752323079972012-10-06T16:06:44.292-04:002012-10-06T16:06:44.292-04:00You have to wonder if people who wanted to burn Fa...You have to wonder if people who wanted to burn Fahrenheit 451 thought AT ALL...Cheryl @ Tales of the Marveloushttp://marveloustales.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-2051030356629959082012-10-06T09:52:12.779-04:002012-10-06T09:52:12.779-04:00Thank you! I've seen a lot of really distressi...Thank you! I've seen a lot of really distressing comments this week about how children need to be protected, which in my mind is akin to saying that they need someone to think for them. I'm a huge opponent of censorship, especially where books are concerned. If people want to stop their own kids from reading things, that's their choice (although I disagree with it). Trying to stop other people's kids from reading something is not. <br /><br />I think that genre fiction *does* get the short end of the stick, mostly because of religious fundamentalism and over-zealous conservatives. Perhaps I'm a little biased but I've never had a liberal or atheist friend say to me, "Hey, you know what book should be banned?"gabrielreadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11809365791580695386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-89115535007742667972012-10-06T05:00:18.171-04:002012-10-06T05:00:18.171-04:00Amen. Preach on!Amen. Preach on!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-56616022589536723872012-10-05T14:55:10.771-04:002012-10-05T14:55:10.771-04:00@Elizabeth: I read several of the banned books as ...@Elizabeth: I read several of the banned books as assigned reading in high school, and I have read many, many others on my own.Aaron Poundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11747596648152141394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3304302673132222419.post-29956252245056254132012-10-05T14:28:18.400-04:002012-10-05T14:28:18.400-04:00I have read almost every one of the books in the b...I have read almost every one of the books in the banned book list in high school as required reading. :) They were not banned at that time.<br /><br />Stop by to see the list I read. :) My link is below.<br /><br />Happy Hopping.<br /><br />Elizabeth<br />Silver's Reviews<br />http://silversolara.blogspot.com/2012/10/book-blogger-hop-105-1011.html<br />Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01522861943931628690noreply@blogger.com