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6/12/2012

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I know you need a little quote to go with such a post. I searched many banned books for a good quote, worthy of encompassing the world today where 50 Shades of Grey stirs such controversy, popularity and censure. Here ya go!


"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work. There is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Ch. 1 
Here's a list of banned and challenged books.
  • 1984 - George Orwell
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain
  • Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  • Animal Farm - George Orwell
  • Arabian Nights
  • As I Lay Dying (1932) - William Faulkner
  • Awakening - Kate Chopin
  • Beloved - Toni Morrison 
  • Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
  • Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  • Call of the Wild - Jack London
  • Candide - Voltaire
  • Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  • Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger 
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  • Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
  • Color Purple - Alice Walker
  • Dubliners - James Joyce
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
  • Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck
  • Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  • Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
  • House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
  • Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  • King Lear - William Shakespeare
  • Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
  • Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  • Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  • Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  • Madame Bovary
  • Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  • Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin
  • Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Separate Peace - John Knowles
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Gregorific is well aware that 50 Shades is not banned; it is only considered smut or 'less than'. But so were some of the books above. Give it a try or ignore it. Book bashing should be banned. 

Just sayin',
~gregorific

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