"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading."
Isaac Asimov
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I admire anyone who champion bold ideas, connects and share favorite thoughts provoking reads!
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Absolutely! It feared enough to ban, its powerful enough to open minds and spark change
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Ashay my people...ashay
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Books carry ideas, some uncomfortable, some revolutionary. The impulse to ban them only proves their power and relevance.
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And he read a lot of books.
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Mein Kampf is banned all over the place and I looked: there is absolutely nothing of value in there. Asimov didn’t really think that one through.
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Joyce's "Ulysses" was once banned. Greatest book I've ever read.
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No book should ever be banned. You can often learn more from the bad than the good
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I'm starting a collection. Thriftbooks is a great place to begin~
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The diary of Anne Frank? FFS. Evil.
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Facts
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Indeed!
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Is a. Ok really "banned" on account of not being in grade school libraries, id any adult can buy it in any bookstore?
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Asimov was my hero!
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Makes me appreciate this genius more.
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For the record: Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy of five books IS definitely worth reading. However, it's difficult to keep it on lists of banned books cuz it's so darn cuddly!
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I am lucky to live in California. Just try and ban a book here! After seeing "To Kill a Mockingbird" a couple times....great film with Gregory Peck....I bought the book and read it. All it did was make me understand how things were in a certain time and period of America. We should all know this.
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Bibles?
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There you go👽
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He was a wise man.
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Take it. Take my follow.
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RIP mister Azimov, you are the greatest !
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Yeah, fine, but Ayn Rand books should still come with a warning label.
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Most of the book I read as a child are now banned like Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax".
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Agreed
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And Asimov was ALWAYS worth reading.
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That is a great piece of advice.
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True dat!
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I have always instinctively known this.
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You got that right. If I hear a book is banned, I want it. However, when I'm finished reading it, I can never figure out why it was banned. No book should EVER be banned. Besides the 1rst amendment ruling, if you don't want to read it, dont. Reader's choice. Funny, Trump hasn't banned Mein Kampf.
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Exactly!
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Agreed
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Yes absolutely!
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The Diary of Anne Frank
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Exactly
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I've read many banned books not worth reading. As a college student, I tried to read a part of "120 Days of Sodom" and quit quickly. On principle, I will fight for an adult's right to read it, but it had no literary contribution to recommend it be included in an elementary school library.
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Here's one of the books your Democrat friends want in schools. This was in TWO districts that my kids attended.
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Except it's a total lie.
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Someone needs to find the book he wrote that in and get it off the shelves, STAT!
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I read Asimov as a child and absolutely adored the windows his writings opened in my mind.
Currently enjoying FOUNDATION on AppleTV.
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I know I run right out to see it or buy it
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The art of the deal is worth banning without reading😵💫😵💫😵💫
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EXACTLY🤗!
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I am putting “The Diary of Anne Frank” on my banned book reading list. WTF, MAGAts!?!
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Good thing no books are banned.
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Foundation is awesome
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So children should read hardcore porn because its banned for under 18s?
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And now, in rebuttal:
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*except Captain Underpants
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The shirt I’m wearing today.
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Unless it's "Art of the Steal", then banning/burning every copy is encouraged.
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I agree. Isaac need the Nobel Prize.
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Absofuckinglutly
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hear hear!
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Read it and make up your own mind. Nothing worse than the thought police.
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Absolutely !!!
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Hello
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Well the Bible is def not worth banning. People need to read the words supporting slavery, misogyny, and general hate.
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I agree
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Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
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I was reading a collection of his short stories, kind of scary how prophetic he was, considering the technology at the time of his writing…
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Quite. It’s an amplifier anyways. What can’t I read? What can’t I see? What can’t I hear?!!!!!
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Please post the title of a book that you cannot purchase
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Agreed! Same goes for just about any material in any medium.
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Except for Project 2025! That book should be banned and burned!
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Yes!
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I believe it!
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Truth!!
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True statement from one of my favorite writers!
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Every book that has been banned in the last 8 years is somewhere here in my house.
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What about a book on the best ways to ban books.
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Banned Book in Germany:
"Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler. Worth reading? I don't think so.
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I rushed the stage after his lecture at PA's Clarion state college when I was 14, he seemed a little startled at first, but was very kind to me and let me shake his hand. A real gent.
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“Any video worth banning is a video worth watching”
Chicago Tafia
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"Any mutton chop worth shaving is a mutton chop worth growing."
Isaac Asimov
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Amen 🙏
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Encourage your public library to create a display of books that are banned.
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Such as the “Diary of Ann Frank” banned in Florida…
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I read most banned books when I was younger. Perhaps it’s time for me to catch up on the newer banned books.
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even Lolita?
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Isaac Asimov is one of my favorite authors. I've read many books by him. But here I have to respectfully disagree (if he ever actually said this at all).
"Fifty Shades of Gray" is a frequently banned book. I read a bit once. Fifty Shades of Gray is not worth reading. ;)
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Not sure i agree. Far too general a statement.
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Start reading…
More than 1,600 books banned in Escambia County, Florida - PEN America
Five dictionaries are on Escambia County's list of more than 1,600 books banned pending investigation in December 2023, along with eight different encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of World Records, an...
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I guess Florida school banned The Dairy of Anne Frank. I wonder why?
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LOL That's how I started watching Married with Children. Some blonde Karen was on all the talk shows saying how bad it was. Not that she could't monitor her children's viewing.
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That's right
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Except tropic of cancer.... That book sucks
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Except the book trump’s ex said he keeps in his night stand. 😉
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Yeah that book where a boy sucks off another older boy, That's a classic. Can't believe they kept that out of Middle School libraries
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Indeed!
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Exactly when you do not have proof of wring then just ban it. These folks need to be filing in court because they will win over banning in most cases
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Who burned books because they were politically inconvenient? Nazis! Education is the enemy of the tyrant, and that is why politicians love to ban books and cut education funding.
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Consider considering every book that was written by Donald J Trump deserves to be banned, is certainly not worth reading
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Indeed
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Any book worth reading is worth reading again.
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Hallelujah
