Burn the Books (29.09.06)
Thanks Jax!
I read a fair bit. I read more when I wasn’t writing, but I still read a fair bit. Interestingly I’ve read 28 of the list of ………..
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
Actually I own a few of them now. I’m sitting here pondering now. Should any book ever be banned? Can the written word be a bad thing? I’m not sure. The words themselves are just words, the books just paper and print. But the ideas inside, there’s a different story. The list of most frequently challenged Authors is interesting too. Even JK Rowling gets in there(top 10 1999 - 2004 - scroll down the page a bit) must be that evil wizarding magic…..An idea in and of itself is not bad or good surely? It’s human interpretation or implementation of that idea. Then I get myself tangled up in knots - of course some ideas are bad, so the written form must be bad too. But which of us is to judge what is bad and what is good.
I could ramble for ages but I won’t, I have a novel to write and my brain needs to be not oozing out of my ears. I wonder if my books will ever make those lists?
