'Lolita' Could Be Pulled From Library's Shelves

WESH - 2 ^ | January 22, 2006

[Borges]

Man I hate stuff like this! One of the truly great American novels. It was actually written in between 1950-1953 so it's well over 50 years old.

[Constitution Day]

Good grief.

[SlowBoat407]

All books can be indecent books
Though recent books are bolder
For filth, I'm glad to say
Is in the mind of the beholder
When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz is a dirty old man...

-Tom Lehrer - "Smut"

[billorites]

It's stuff like this that makes me feel positively hostile towards public education.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

This gives a lot of publicity to a book that most have never heard of. Unintended consequences??

[MineralMan]

Oh, for Pete's sake! Lolita? It's not an obscene book. It's not pornography. It's a novel about a very sad character and his obsession.

Should it be on the adult shelves? Absolutely. Should minors be allowed to read it? That depends on their parents.

[atomicpossum]

And 'Romeo and Juliet' opens a whole can of worms, too. 'Huckleberry Finn' has hate speech. And a book by Helen Thomas probably has her picture on the dust jacket. How bad will we let things get?

[AD from SpringBay]

What about Under the Volcano by Thomas Mann? That's about an old man who lusts after a young teen boy he sees on the beach.

[Valpal1]

One of the truly great American novels? Sheesh, it was crap in the 50's and it's still crap.

[oceanview]

next, Summer of 42 will be considered "child porn".

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Oh brother. First the nonsense about regulating cable TV and satellite radio, now this. If there's one thing the self-appointed guardians of virtue/political correctness on both the left and right side of the political spectrum can agree on, it's the need to censor what the rest of us watch, listen to, and read.

[Borges]

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, and to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was fifteen years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean, sweet breath again this side of the grave.

- Mark Twain

[dfwgator]

I only learned about the book because I wanted to find out what Sting was singing about when he mentioned "that book by Nabokov."

[trebb]

Fanny Hill!

[Petronski]

[MineralMan]

"next, Summer of 42 will be considered "child porn"."

And "Peyton Place," another book with incest in it. I thought the book-banning nonsense had finally gone away.

[Crawdad]

The movie is on today at 3:00pm eastern on Turner Classic Movies.

[Borges]

Sting also pronounced Na-BO-kov wrong.

[Hoodlum91]

I don't think it should be pulled, but it is a god-awful novel.

I was so disgusted, I didn't finish it.