Comments on: UPDATE: What books did Sarah Palin want to ban from library?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:10:31 +0000

Um, that last Harry Potter book on the list didn’t come out until 2005 (after she was no longer mayor.) So while it seems pretty clear she did very much look into banning books, I think the list is bogus.

By: Jessica Wolfe

Jessica Wolfe — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:25:04 +0000

I am a college professor — at a public university — and I teach several of these books regularly, including The Canterbury Tales and Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night. If Palin is elected, is she going to try and control what I decide to teach in my classroom? Will she ban works that have been deemed classics for centuries?

By: Krisan Matthews

Krisan Matthews — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:42:46 +0000

She wanted the DICTIONARY banned?! Wow…I have no words right now…

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:30:17 +0000

This is especially astounding to me, because some of these books I was *required* to read in school:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
And come on, Blubber? Little Red Riding Hood? Really?