The Banned Books Challenge: Are you reader enough?
From The Inkwell Bookstore Blog, Tuesday, October 2, 2007:
“Banned Book Week is the book industry’s annual celebration of their own self-satisfaction and self-importance. Bookstores everywhere (including us) hang signs in their windows and around their stores boasting that THEY. SELL. BANNED. BOOKS. They get a write up in the local paper, place little white cards around their store and (inevitably) blog about it, and for what? To make themselves feel progressive and important. But of all the books that they are so ‘bravely’ selling, how many have been considered ‘dangerous’ in the past ten years? How many have been banned in a marginally enlightened society in the past twenty years? None. Ooh…you sell Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Huck Finn. How cutting edge! That really sticks it to The Man. Are you serious? I bet you Bill O’Reilly wouldn’t even say anything bad about freakin’ Huck Finn. But how many copies of the Anarchist’s Cookbook does your store have on hand? Or Mein Kampf? Or…”[Read the rest.]
