Posted on 04/14/2022 4:40:33 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
“That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. They can drive you crazy. They really can.” ~ The Catcher in the Rye
About 2 decades ago I was still doing consulting and traveling a lot.
Our local library refused to carry books by Thomas Sowell, Limbaugh and other conservative writers. Our local left wing book stores were in on this B$.
So I had a few book stores in airports or malls near to where I traveled where I often bought books and paid the so called recommended recommended price plus a sales tax.
On a plane back home, I had a book bag with some new purchases, and a guy in the same row of seats on the plane, introduced me to Amazon. Amazon has carried every conservative book I was interested in.
A DIL introduced me to Kindle, which my wife is now addicted to.
She pays a small monthly fee and gets a ton of books for free on Kindle.
She has had a bad hip and due to covid, it seemed to take forever for her get approved for a hip replacement surgery.
She had the hip replaced about 5 weeks ago and is doing good. So she read about one kindle book a day before and after her surgery.
I have a few books about the dangers and realities of the Covid shots and the booster shots.
I’m ashamed to be a man, just reading that. Ashamed.
/sarc
What about banning the 45th President of the United States from making comments on Twitter?
I was amazed to find it in our county library. According to the Worldcat global library database, only five other library systems carry this book, and it's hard to find in bookstores.
I would agree that there is the opportunity for a distorted logic unconnected from the essence of the book.
It is available in paperback and Kindle on Amazon, and there is a summary.
they left out anything written by David Horowitz after he was red pilled
What’s that old expression? “Banned In Boston” - Mein Kampf was banned in the 30’s - if only people would have been able to read it, a different view of Hitler would have been known.
In NYS a local elementary school pulled the Little House books for cultural sensitivity reasons.
It’s just ludicrous.
These books were not "Banned". They were occasionally removed from CHILDREN's school libraries. Sometimes it was just suggested that they be removed from children's school libraries.
The "Banned books" is a bunch of hogwash.
Many books in those days generated controversy, but they weren’t pornographic trash.
I couldn’t finish it. I kept wondering where the “there” was in the story.
It wasn’t until years later that someone said the catcher in the rye was a person who wanted to save kids from falling down the cliff of luzing their innocence, save them from it. I still think the whole thing was overrated.
Huckleberry Finn, there was a real interesting story.
And Xenophontas’ Anabasis The March Up Country, that was interesting reading. History is always better than fiction.
I guarantee this is not the reason.
Bingo! LOLs!
My sister was sent to the office and questioned for having a copy of “Mein Kampf” at high school, in the ‘70s.
Mom is crazy about history and the US, and has lots of books from the enemy, including Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. She wanted us to read them (I still haven’t).
If I recall, the story was about the inner thoughts of a teenage boy. There was something about stories told in first person that appealed to me.
We also had to read dystopian fiction and fantasy. I loved fiction when I was young, but these days, all I read is the news.
I've always thought of The Catcher in the Rye as a portrait of a long-winded self-important loser. I guess that was the point of it?
Chinese General Tso(?) said to understand your enemy is you to be your enemy as in learn everything you can about him.
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