The hour grows late, but the challenges still await!
Ban This Book! is a nod to banned book week. The object is to take any book, maybe your current readathon book, and find a ridiculous way to get it on the banned/challenged list. Present the story or events completely out of context, use innocent quotes and turn them into something dark and dirty!
For instance I just picked a book at random from the shelf- The Princess Bride by William Goldman, and I'm going to use the plot to present my case as to why the book should be banned.
The Princess Bride is a book that glorifies violence, murder, torture and crime! The main "hero" is a blood thirsty pirate who attacks a poor scarred man and chokes unconscious a mentally challenged giant, then kills a man with poison! Not to mention, this so-called "hero" brutally slays the endangered R.O.U.S's (rodents of unusual size) and later threatens to chop off various body parts of another character. The "love story" is immorality at it's best, the heroine is engaged, and then married, to another man when she abandons him to live in sin with the hero. Revenge against a physically deformed man is a major subplot and his murder is quite excessive. I shudder to think what reading this book could do to the fragile young minds of our youths. No doubt they would want to take up sword fighting and plan careers as assassins. I implore you to take this book of your shelves before more innocent children are corrupted!
Hmm, I might have gone a little crazy there, but hopefully you get the drift. And it doesn't matter if you pick a book already on the banned or challenged list, I know what a bunch of rebellious readers we have out here in the book blogging world! Just have fun with it.
The prize is a $15.00 Amazon gift certificate, which will be emailed to you, so this is open to all readathon participants. It would be helpful to include your email address in your comment, and you can either post a link to your banned books argument or, if you don't have a blog, just enter the entire thing into the comments section. This contest will be open for 3 hours.
Have fun with it and be silly!
http://blkosiner.blogspot.com/2010/10/mini-challenge-ban-this-book.html
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brandileigh2003@yahoo.com
fun idea :) I'm going with my current book White Witch, Black Curse by Kim Harrison:
ReplyDeleteThis book should be banned for many reasons!
The dangerously short skirt the character wears on the cover
She's a Witch!
Foul mouthed pixies
AND this book dares to portray complex emotional love between two women!
that was fun, dont mean it but it was fun
Kai Charles
mailkaicharles@yahoo.com
(First off, I looove this book)
ReplyDeleteTerrior (Beka Cooper #2) should be banned for many reasons. First Beka Cooper talks to the dead. She must be the devil's minon.
Beka also decides to take a lover and have random acts of sex with him.
Also there is a cross-dressing gay man who goes and sings, as a very hot woman. Then he comes home and makes out with his gay lover.
Devil worship, unmartial sex and homosexuality! Our children will be be crossing dressing, magic welding gay people! We cannot allow this!
You guys are killing me! It's like putting on the crazy glasses and seeing everything all messed up, isn't? :)
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ReplyDeleteMine is on Little Women! :)
lesleykjones@hotmail.com
Mine's up! Super fun challenge--I've never done a satire like that before. It was an interesting process.
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Fun! I am currently reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath which is a banned book!
ReplyDeleteHowever... I think I would like to go with....
The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Suess. Certainly this book should be BANNED BANNED BANNED!!!
First off you have these two children left alone in the house by their reckless (and probably medicated) mother.
Then of course there is the cat. This Cat breaks into the home and causes chaos in the lives of these children - teaching them bad habits of destroying a home.
Of course there is magic - and well,have we learned nothing from the banning of that horrible trash Harry Potter? That's right - magic is bad and causes our children to want to smash things and see if it will go back together on its own.
Seriously? I have to wonder.... was Dr. Suess even a Dr?
(OK....LOL, that was fun!) I am posting here because I am too tired to post on my blog.) :)
journeythroughbooks@ gmail.com
http://booksfornerds.blogspot.com/2010/10/readathon-hour-seventeen-ban-this-book.html
ReplyDeleteHunger by Jackie Morse Kessler should not be allowed on bookshelves because it promotes sex, eating disorders, and godlessness.
"Tammy was disciplined when it came to food. She could bring up a doughnut in thirty seconds." This passage places binging and purging on a pedestal, especially with the main character musing: "Maybe one day, she would be able to control her body the way Tammy controlled hers." It is an ill-disguised attempt at a bulimia how-to guide.
And the main character is constantly stripping her clothes off: not a good example for the girls who will be reading this book. For example on page 78: "Lisa stripped off her flannel pajamas...Next came her underwear..."
Great idea! I wrote about this in my central read-a-thon post.
ReplyDeleteMy son (we call him "Tesla" because he's going to build a death ray before he's out of high school) and I are lobbying for the "banning" of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
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Enjoy!
Here is mine! (bottom of the post)
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I am going to pick..one of my favorite picture books "Are You My Mother" by Dr.Seuss.
ReplyDeleteThis book should definitely be banned. It encourages children or small helpless animals to approach total strangers in search of a maternal parent. Often these "possible parents' are dangerous including a piece of dangerous machinery which children should never be encouraged to play on. This book teaches children to talk to strangers, question their parentage and even play with heavy machinery. Wrong Wrong Wrong I say!
stilettostorytime at gmail dot com
Great challenge!
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading How to Steal A Dog.. and it should totally be banned for:
-animal cruelty
-encouraging kids to steal
-showing homelessness in a positive light
There really isn't any animal cruelty.. but hey :-D
dragonzgoil at gmail dot com
The Princess Bride is my all time favorite! lol Loved it. My entry is at my blog I randomly picked Peter Pan and just gave out a short silly entry. Thanks for hosting it was fun! :D
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Mine is easy to ban for several reasons. I'm reading the sequel to Leviathan - Behemoth - and it could be banned because its imagining an alternate reality where Darwinism is a way of life. And because a girl is cross-dressing as a boy!! Scandal ;) and she's a woman on a military ship!
ReplyDeleteGoogled is thoroughly subversive and should be removed from library shelves everywhere.
ReplyDeleteClearly, the book glorifies a bunch of misfits who have no concept of corporate decorum. They don't have manners, either, as evidenced by the "protaganists" inability to pull themselves away from their personal information devices, even for important business meetings.
Perhaps more damning than anything else, however, is the insistence that Google should have as its motto "Don't be evil," which clearly implies that every for-profit company is evil. The emphasis on deconstructing capitalism is hugely disturbing.
My current read, Spirit Bound, should be banned for violence, murder, criminal acts, and occult.
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Here's mine!
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My current readathon book, HALF A YELLOW SUN, is horribly subversive book. It represents people living together outside of marriage, including a teenage boy! This is not a lesson for today's youth! Beyond that, it depicts people from POLYGAMOUS relationships with out suggesting that such relationships are bad! What would such depictions of a relationship teach our children about marriage? Youth should be protected from such literature. Adichie's book should be taken from public libraries to protect our children.
ReplyDelete[Of course, it also depicts the Nigerian CIVIL WAR, in which people are cut open with machetes, but to be ridiculous, we won't go there for now :) ]
This is brilliant! please read my letter to the custodians of our children's minds here:
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Clever challenge! I've got my response posted over on my Update #6 post (scroll down):
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Great challenge! Here's my post for Seth Baumgartner's Love Manifesto.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting! I've entered and its under the hour 18th mark:
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Totally forgot to give you a link! Here's mine http://www.eclectic-eccentric.com/2010/10/readathon-report-hours-16-17.html
ReplyDeleteHow fun - here's mine:
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http://thebookiemonster.blogspot.com/2010/10/its-almost-midnight-and-im-still-awake.html
ReplyDeleteThis is where my current post is, including this minichallenge. I used the book The Wastelands by Stephen King. Kind of easy. =)
You all did such a fantastic job! I picked out a random winner, well, Random.org picked out a random winner, and I'll announce the winner here once it's been updated on the Readathon site. The winner will need to send me their email address, since the Amazon gift certificate will be emailed.
ReplyDeleteThank you all so much for taking the time to stop by my blog, and thanks for keeping the readathon going! I don't know about ya'll, but I'm having a blast!