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Real hope for the next generation

Yes, keep doing what your doing. but dont get caught.
no school anywhere should have the right to deny students to read any book. (unless its erotic literature.)

You are doing a good thing.

Some school banned Animal Farm? That sure makes them look stupid. Guess they didn't read it first.

This is what our generation should be doing. We are more open minded and we are now can see that these ridiculous thoughts on banning books. All forms of knowledge should be be used for inquiry on this life we live. Keep doing your thing man , I just read an article about you and was appalled by what I read. If you are stimulating people to get out and learn then there is nothing wrong. We must fight for what we believe is right, our founding fathers did it to try and create a nation free of tyranny and it has been corrupted so now, we must do the same. We will one day win this war with ignorance.

in the original question thread, as it turns out through evidence from the user's own prior question, this was all pretty well fabricated.

It's a good fake, thoough.

Hate to do this, but from the same author's previous question at :

“I find that usually the books teens and other age groups are discouraged from reading are the best. My school doesn't have any banned books, but my friend goes to a catholic private school and the list is list ten pages long. It doesn't even have to be a school list. Any banned books please thanks.”

And then an about-face claiming that actually, she does go to a private school, and making use of a long hard-to-believe list of banned books (many commentators mention that their own Christian private schools used the same books as required reading)? Come on now.

NOTE: Just noticed Ridley's post. But here's the specific evidence regardless.

You know what? that's amazing. I can't believe that people would be so obtuse as to ban a book just because it might change someone's mind. I think you're performing an excellent thing here. Im agnostic, but i think everyone, regardless of religion should have the right to read ANYTHING they want. I mean, if you ban a book because of the content, you may as well shut off your TV, stop using a magazine, and God forbid you touch that News paper. Good for you, Kat. Excellent work. You are a Matriarch of literature in my eyes now. GO FORTH AND SPREAD THE FICTION!

You are now on my awsomeness list.

Good Job……you rock

If want to read all these books go to a public school. A lot of them were REQUIRED reading even back in my high school years, way back in 1973!

Dear Subversive Librarian,

I am so proud of you! That takes some guts to stand up for free thinkiing in an age where it is 'supposedly' our right as a citizen. You might want to include “1984″, “Bradbury's “Feirenhiet 451″, and “Lord of the Flies” , and any of the Harry Potter books in your collection. It is appauling that you should have to go to these lenghts at all during your formative years. Gallileao went through the same issues that you are going through; only he had discovered the stars and could be burned at the stake. People have been fighting this battle for countless centuries. But who knows maybe you have secretively sparked a reading revolution. Knowledge IS power. Take back your power and feed your brain—Best wishes and may you never get caught—Randy

P.S. I would also anonamously report the catholic school authorities to the state school board.

Some of those books I read for classes. I love to read, and I'm glad someone has taken a chance to get others to do more of it. This story reminds me of many books about the future… Scary glimpse really.

I'm tingly all over. =)

I am a young person — definitely a product of the digital age — and I am a huge reader and appreciator of the classics. I think that there is something appealing about the slower pace of a good novel because it matches the actual pace of life. Sure the world moves much faster than it once did, but you still live your life one moment at a time. There is a narrative that this experience creates that goes beyond the sound bytes of modern communication and the only way to express that experience is with a well crafted novel.

As to this issue: read everything you can. It will make you be able to discern the good ideas from the bad ones. You are doing a service to your classmates in the face of an incredible injustice. I commend you and I hope that they do not succeed in destroying your natural instinct to encourage the free spread of ideas.

I wish you the best.

I am Currently reading: The Brothers Kamazarov,

Bravo! Keep at it. They'll be happy they read those banned books once they get into college. Most of the list you gave I have had to write some paper on. God Speed.

That is beautiful. I am so proud of my generation now.

I think what you're doing is excellent. Many of those books are beautifully written works… His Dark Materials is in my top ten list for sure.

Anyway, people have to learn to make their own decisions. A child learns that they shouldn't touch the stove element because they've been burnt and they know what 'hot' means, right? If a person truly believes in their faith, they aren't going to completely lose it just because they read a book that supports anti-religious ideas.

I think it's wrong for any organization to tell you NOT to learn more… It's like a jealous husband telling his wife she can't leave the house because then she'll know that other men exist. If she cheats, it's because she's a lousy wife or he's a lousy husband! Sorry for all the metaphors, but anyway…

Just don't get caught, and be prepared to defend yourself in case you do. Maybe keep the books at home instead of at school? Having your principal bust open your two lockers stuffed full of anti-religious material would probably cause an awful scene.

No way this is real. I went to a Catholic school. Beyond the fact that this seems a little absurd, I refuse to believe that a student dabbling in literary masterpieces would misspell Catholicism. That is something they make sure you can do at parochial school

And why are you drawing the line at erotic literature? That doesn't make any sense; why draw the line at sex but not at stories about people being killed, tortured etc.? And does that mean that books like Brave New World, which feature sex prominently, should be banned?

For the record, I don't support the idea of banning any books at all. Of course kids will be more excited about reading a banned book. Maybe these schools should start banning the Bible and other stuff that they clearly want their kids to be reading; that's the only way they'll get their students interested.

If you do a Google for Kat's Yahoo questions you will see that this delightful story is unfortunately a hoax. Her other questions are contradictory.

I wonder if Fahrenheit 451 is in that locker?

This guy is a fake! He posted this comment earlier on the same site:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As…

Maybe not a “fake” but at least a good writer, and that coincides with his profile, check it out!

Very well done my friend!!! In this days, it is a shame that somebody thinks he has got the right to bann any book!!
even the pope, you have guts!!! and there is no reason to be ashamed, since in the end the truth always gaze its face!!!
You can try to include to your valuable hiden library: The Myths by Joseph Campbells (or any book by him)

Best regards!!

Now you kow how to start any company you want to. One piece at a time till it becomes contaigous!

Randy,
If you're attempting to sound intelligent and/or educated, you should take the time to spell check (or at least use words that you know). Also, I would go to a basic grammar class and review the proper use of a semicolon and subject agreement.
I personally cannot stand people who lurk on the internet, making “intelligent” comments, and who have extremely limited knowledge of history, grammar and SPELLING.

Gallileao = Galileo
Feirenhiet = Fahrenheit
anonamously = anonymously
thinkiing = thinking
appauling = appalling
lenghts = lengths

I admire your message, but you're discrediting your point by writing at a 7th grade level. Please make an effort to sound less stupid.
Thanks

One other collection of books you should add. These describe incest, murder, rape, child sacrifice, prostitution, gang rape, dismemberment, slavery, torture, and genocide. These books are best sellers, although they are seldom read. These books are commonly referred to as the Holy Bible.
In defense of the Catholic church, the Bible was at one time banned. But I find it funny that a lot of Christians get on a high horse about banning books when the content of the Bible is much more graphic.
Don't misunderstand me, I am a Christian, and most people would call me extremely conservative in my faith. But I get really pissed at religious people who want to make God pretty and safe. Do you know that “hung like a horse” was a phrase attributed to being spoken by God? And God describes a situation in which hoitey-toitey women fight with their husbands over who gets to eat their own afterbirth. People today want a clean and sanitary religion. But from what I read, God is not that way.
I believe that the reasons Christians want to ban some books is that they don't want to have to think hard enough to defend their faith. Come to think of it, I see a lot of that kind of fear these days. Putting yourself out there in the marketplace of ideas is not easy. Whether it's catholic schools or secular, the first response is to try to shut people up who disagree with us on things we care about. It gives us the luxury of making our mind up only once and then never having to hear a differing opinion and hurt our brains thinking about the issue again.