Science fiction books deemed too dangerous to read
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Fahrenheit 451 was my favorite in school.
I found it around the same time as Inherit the Wind, about the 1925 Scopes monkey trial, a teacher on trial for teaching evolution in Tennessee.
For Rushdie I'd recommend maybe trying Midnight's Children. It's an easier read, and I think better regarded in terms of his body of work. I still think of several moments often. That initial setup in Satanic Versus, and the story around the book and the author, is immense though. His newest one looked interesting.
Beloved is a classic. Toni Morrison was a genius.
I love your new shelves ❤
I’ve actually read six of the eight books on this list; I must be a rebel just like you! I may need to revisit this list during Banned Books week in October.
Clockwork orange is disturbing. The movie is hard to watch.
Banned books is something still ongoing in the US today! My state of Nebraska was literally just voting on some book banning laws and stuff. Usually it’s centered around LGBTQIA+ and Black representation
Books that even children can read?
Read Brave New World five years ago, and was shocked at how poor the prose was. It took me longer to get through that book than Way of Kings, which is a real brick of a book.
I really liked the adaptation of Brave New World. It was available on the streaming service “Peacock” in the United States. The book, I agree, is quite a slog.
@@georginatoland a movie? Only saw one but that was years ago.
@@spookyfirst9514It's a series.
I've read five of the eight on your list, with plans to read the others in the next couple years. I read 1984 for a class project in high school and distinctly remember it freaking me out for weeks - all I could do was look around and say to myself "yep, we're here."
I own 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale on my shelves, and I'm looking forward to read them.
1984 is one of my absolute favourite books of all time as well. Definitely want to read brave new world and satanic verses. The problem with the handmaids tale for me is the show made me pretty much hate the man character. It’s just not for me to be honest. Particularly with your feedback.
I'm currently buddy-reading Brave New World with my dad! He doesn't read much fiction and NEVER reads anything speculative so he's really stretching himself 😂
Read Brave New World in December and it immediately became one of my all time favorite scifi novels
Most of these were required reading in my junior high English class (7th grade). And most of them were readily available in the high school library. Those that weren’t are because they hadn’t been written yet when I was in school. (Yes, I am that old.😂)
I worked for a bookstore when the controversy over Rushdie’s book was going on. We pulled the book from the displays and folks had to ask for it specifically. There was concern that there would be violence against us if we had it visible.
Anyone looking for The Handmaiden’s Tale can just take a quick trip to Texas and see the real thing in action.
If you enjoy Brave new world and 1984 I have to recommend Kallocain by Karin Boye. ❤
Beloved, and Toni Morrison as a whole, is just pure genius!
Am I the only person who has notiticed that America has this strange thing going where they enjoy banning books, then create movies off of the banned books? The Hunger Games being the most recent ones, yet there's also A Clockwork Orange that was turned into a movie, along with a list of others.
They are also banning/ challenging ACOTAR. Still not going to read it.
read them all, highly recommend the satanic verses, so much fun to read! go and enjoy it. I work in a bookshop and these are all standard stock, which is what happens to banning books is that it makes people want to read them to find out what the fuss is all about
lol, sorry, but it's so funny and desperate also to see how you are retitling this video like the fourth time now after you uploaded this...
Hello 👋 I’m not sorry in to Sci-fi books….. thanks for the video 🎥🎥🎥
Take care now. Bye bye then!
None of these books are "fantasy" books. They're SF, probably best described as speculative fiction. Rushdie himself said his work is not magical realism, and Beloved is lit. fiction.
Be careful defining these books as outright bans. Some where not recommended for specific grade levels, but activists defined that as an outright ban.
I have read four of these books, a record for some of your lists. I am not an avid reader and prefer the time tested classics. I have written work that I have already been told, "Does not meet the criterion of collection."
It is getting scary in the art world. In my case, a short story that uses gay and racial slurs just for comedic value, I am vilified. However those same words and slurs can be used in books aimed at 13 year olds with graphic sexual content, and they are just fine, because they are depicting victimization. However, I am not allowed to use them by the progressive gatekeepers to make people laugh.
Awful times we live in Today. I am glad that you are not feeding into the nonsense.
Maybe because the context is what matters ?
In my opinion there are three different ways
1)First the context of it being comedic itself. Some people disagree that it should be comedic itself. Victimization shows that this is harmful behavior comedy can but usually does not have that point.
2)then of it being comedic with an accepting undertone or one of ridicule.
3)And third if the humor is actually good or if it hinges too much on using slurs
2)If two is one of ridicule and dislike of the actual people then you shouldn’t be surprised if people criticize you. That’s also part of free speech as long as they don’t start to use anti democratic tactics like doxxing.
3) If the humor solely hinges on it being shocking you will also be criticized because shocking doesn’t work for repeated use. There must be more to it like an underlying meaning or it will be called tasteless
Personally I don’t agree with 1) too much.
I don’t have anything against people calling me a faggot if it’s enveloped in a good joke. I’m honestly a bit intrigued by your short story how did you try to make people laugh ?
@@foodsupply5071 If you want to check it out, it is a click away, and thanks for asking, and see for yourself. There is an underlying meaning, but it appears in the third chapter. I am gay as well, and the piece begins, "In the bowels of the poorest part of the city of Milwaukee in the late 1980's there lived a motley and loving circle of f words and queers. I laugh like a troll thinking of how a lot of people get disgusted at that and put it down right away.
At the end of it all, I love it. It makes me laugh every time I hear or read it.
Beloved was one of the most discussed books in our literature class in college. I've heard of it being taught in Lit classes in High School as a college prep course. It deserves to be read and studied as one of the best in American Literature.
Would I give it to a grade school student? No. It belongs in a higher age bracket.
fiction is great source of escapism and entertainment and people like Salman Rashid shouldn't be exploiting it by disrespecting Prophet Muhammad and other Islamic values in the name of novel.
I've read the satanic verses for that exact reason. i wanted to know what all the fuss was about, and i can honestly say it was terrible. It's essentially a bollywood movie on paper i did not enjoy