Tell me what you really think.
You werent allowed to read Flowers for Algernon?
Oh my goodness that was formative literature - one of my favourites; I cried buckets and never would have found the book at all if it wasnt for the school library.
You know what they say - forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. They also say that all good Catholic girls are goers, and theres truth somewhere in both - make something 'forbidden' and it becomes twice as scintillating - human nature.
What if that was reverse psychology? That those were the works they really wanted you to read in your free time?
We had to memorize the opening to the vicar's tale in 10th grade...God bless Ms. Mary Louise Thomas for that. I still remember it to this day.
Racy, huh? whuddah thunk it?
I convinced my college honors teacher to let us read the Miller's Tale.
I wondered what all the fuss was about.
WF
In my day it was Judy Blume's stuff... I don't remember if it was banned, exactly, but it certainly made the rounds among the girls in my school. Boys would read it, too, but we weren't as open about it. It was more like research for us!
"Comfort me with flagons, stay me with apples, for I am sick of love."
That's the kind of stuff that just stays with a person.
Curious - I've been vetting books
for my son's bedtime storytime. He's gotten Phantom Tollbooth, Jungle Book (original text, not the updated/dumbed down one) and we've just started The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I'm reading Ivanhoe now, (for the first time at age 44!)
and frankly, I'm uneasy about reading it to an eight-year-old.
But I wouldn't _forbid_ it. That sort of thing always reminds me of the scene in "Thief of Bagdad" where the old King of the Land of Legend tells Abu the Thief that everything in the entire land now belongs to him, "except for that carpet". Needless to say, it becomes imperative for the thief to steal that carpet. . . .
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