eldavojohn's Journal: What's Your Favorite Banned Book?

Favorite Banned Book?

• Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Ulysses - James Joyce
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Lorax - Theodor Seuss Geisel
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Personally, I'm going with Ulysses because it's my favorite book of all time.

Wealth of Nations

[The Fun Guy]

Wealth of Nations [wikipedia.org] - Adam Smith

Because oligarchy thrives in poverty, but democracy thrives in abundance.

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Good list, two suggestions

[jambarama]

You got a couple of mine, the only things I could add would be these:
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Missing option...

[powerpants]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. A nice read.

Though I'd probably still pick Slaughterhouse 5, with 1984 as a close second.

Tough one

[Captain Splendid]

S5 is still superb (just reread it a couple of months ago), but my love of Mark Twain knows no bounds, so Huck Finn it is.

Am I the only one who was underwhelmed by Catcher? I can see when it came out in the 50s it would have been a big deal, but it seems a bit trifling now.

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[OldHawk777]

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I lost your email address again....

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[andphi]

No, you're not the only one to be underwhelmed by Catcher in the Rye.

Ivan Denisovich

[andphi]

Of the listed books, I'm going to go with Ivan Denisovich. I've also read Catcher, Mockingbird, 1984, and Huck Finn, but I prefer Ivan Denisovich to the others on the list. If A Wrinkle in Time were on the list, I would have chosen it instead. Ivan Denisovich is a fun read, but I like Wrinkle more.