Man demands that book about book-burning be banned — during Banned Books Week
Published by n1kk1 October 9th, 2006 in Uncategorized. Tags: No Tags.Mark Frauenfelder:
Meredith says: “Last week, a 15-year-old girl at Caney Creek High School (near Houston) complained to her father [Alton Verm] about “bad language” in Ray Bradbury’s classic SF novel Fahrenheit 451. Dad complained to the district and pushed for the book — which tells the story of a man in a futuristic, totalitarian society whose job is to burn unapproved literature — to be removed from the curriculum. As the icing on the cake, his request came during the last week of September, which just happens to be the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week.”
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“It’s just all kinds of filth,” said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read Fahrenheit 451.
Man demands that book about book-burning be banned — during Banned Books Week
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