Re: Banned Books -Reply
Patti Larrabee (Patti.Larrabee@hsc.utah.edu)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 12:06:53 -0600
Hear, Hear Malcolm. I, too, remeber Banned Book Week from the seventies. It
may have been around even longer for all I know. It was not dreamed up by
Barnes & Noble. People don't read anymore?!? Get real. Thanks to Oprah
people are reading more then ever before, and the authors she chooses are
really quite good. Being chosen by Oprah is better then been the featured
Book Of The Month, which Salinger was several times. Book groups are all the
rage. Some people, especially women, are in several. As for keeping a vigil
on banned books we can't let our guard down. A children's book by Cynthia
Rylant called Dog Heaven was banned in the Bible belt. Why? Because it
insinuated that dogs went to heaven. Evidently this goes against most
fundamentalist religions. (there is a sequeal now, Cat Heaven).