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9.29.2005

the other big news is "Banned Books Week"

i am a huge reader.
i read my first novel at 7 and i haven't stopped since.
i am now reading Foucault's Pendulum and i think it only fitting that i talk about books now since this is possibly one of the more difficult reads i have undertaken.
i am thinking of carrying a pocket dictionary on the train (although methinks that if it is a 'pocket' dictionary, they probably had to eliminate some words. i am guessing they would be any of the ones i need to read this book).

i was perusing the list of the most banned books and it seems that i have read all or part of about 80 books on that list (Gormley said "Well there you go, thats what's wrong with you.")
reading got me through the worst of my adolecence.
people called me "Webster" when i was a kid (not after the miniature tv star, but the book with all the fancy words.)
i started college as a "comp lit" major.
reading was my way of checking out of all the crap that went on in my life.
i am not sure who i would be without my love of literature.

read everything you can get your hands on
its all we have.

top 25 banned books
(i have italicized the ones i have read
I apparently do not not like Faulkner)

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Ulysses, James Joyce
Beloved, Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
1984, George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Charlotte's Web, EB White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Winnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne
Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

.: posted by landry 10:57 PM

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