NO MORE WALDO FOR YOU!!!!

[qwertysaur]

List of most commonly challenged books in the U.S.

So, which books on that list have you read or want to read?

I have read
1984
Bless me, Ultima
The Call of the Wild
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
The Face on the Milk Carton
The Giver
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaids Tale
All 7 Harry Potter books
James and the Giant Peach
Lord of the Flies
My Brother Sam is Dead
Of Mice and Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Outsiders
The Pigman
A Separate Peace
To Kill A Mockingbird
Wheres Waldo
A Wrinkle in Time

[CimminyCricket]

Read
The Great Gatsby
6 Harry Potters
Of Mice and Men
The Outsiders
A Separate Peace
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Wrinkle in Time

[Roto13]

A lot of those don't even make any sense.

I'm convinced that a lot of those books were challenged by school students who didn't want to read them.

[scrumpleberry]

1984
Goosebumps
Harry Potter (Series)
James and the Giant Peach
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Witches

Oh man, that's a bit rubbish. But I have to agree with what Roto's said.

edit: oh, I want to read heaps on that list. cba to go back through them.

[Aerith's Knight]

I always found Waldo.. took me while sometimes.. but i found him alright!

[Dolentrean]

Read:

Bless me, Ultima
The Giver
All 7 Harry Potter
James and the Giant Peach
A Seperate Peice
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Wheres Waldo
A Wrinkle in Time
The Anarchist Cookbook
As I lay Dying
Bridge to Teribithia
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Some Goosebumps
How to Eat fried Worms

[Jessweeee♪]

Goodness!

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Blubber
Captain Underpants (I haven't read the more recent ones!)
A Face on the Milk Carton (Does anyone know why this series is on the list?)
Goosebumps
Harry Potter
How to Eat Fried Worms
Lord of the Flies
Tiger Eyes
To Kill a Mocking Bird
What my Mother Doesn't Know
Where's Waldo?

[Shlup]

Most of these were assigned, which means I probably didn't read it very closely.

1984 (Assigned)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Assigned)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Assigned)
Brave New World (Assigned)
A Clockwork Orange
The Face on the Milk Carton (and the sequel)
Goosebumps (#1 - #48)
The Great Gatsby (Assigned and boring)
James and the Giant Peach (Assigned)
The OUtsiders (Assigned but awesome)
Scary Stories
That was Then, This is Now
To Kill a Mockingbird (Assigned but enjoyed)
Where's Waldo? (Obviously)

[Vincent, Thunder God]

I almost want to read them all now, just because they were contested in the US, because I like most of everything that the US contests, and vice versa.

I started most of the Steven King ones, and though I wasn't offended, I didn't really like some of them (Cujo, Christine, the Dead Zone). I made it through the Dead Zone because I really liked the concept and the TV show, but the book was extremely boring to survive - I just hoped it would get better.

I already planned to read a lot of the ones on the list irrelevant of whether or not they were assigned as required reading. Some I started, only to leave for later.

I'm not surprised that a lot of the books' pages on Wikipedia listed the following reasons for raising contrevery...

-Preposterous accusations by the Catholic Church
-Suggesting children contesting authority
-The presence of sex or obscenity

All of those reasons are, in my opinion, irrelevant and not worth protesting, and in my opinion, children should contest authority, it's what's motivated the best changes in our histories that society takes for granted! The next generation is meant to think for itself and be more open-minded, but authority hopes to quell and squash that to make us all more like our parents.

What's really ironic is, despite having American organizations preaching how terrible they are, most of these books are required reading!