Why is it always atwood and never somebody actually worth reading? There's gotta be quality challenged or censored books out there, right?
I would love to see one of these "banned books libraries" stock, like, Martin Luther's On The Jews And Their Lies. Something blatantly antisemitic. But they won't, and that's how you know what's REALLY banned in the world of books.
>>25369202I don't think your question is very serious, but it's because she agrees with the political leanings of the author (or at least the perceived leanings).No one is legitimately concerned with the censorship of views they do not hold.
>>25369213I am. I've been trying to find a copy of camp of the saints at half price books for months now so I can flip to the end and laugh and laugh and laugh but those libpol nanny state book mongers won't carry it. She named the library the manifesto library for God's sake. I bet the words "hypergamy state" won't even be used once in any of those books!
>>25369234Being unable to find a book you can laugh it does not sound like "legitimate concern", but I maybe saying "No one" is an overreach if taken literally.The ACLU for example is probably the only organization I know of that takes a more principled stance on the issue of censorship.
banned books fans when you read the turner diaries instead of margaret atwood
>>25369202Why don't these american libtards include books banned in China like Four Books by Yan Lianke? A book that had to be smugled out of china to be released.Why not include Bandi, the North Korean writer who lives in North Korea and one time was able to smuggle his uncensored writing out of the country?Instead they include books "banned" by some schools, banned means "the school considers it inapropriate for 6 year old children", which the books in OP's pic are (since they are breeding fetish porn). Like motherfucker try bringing Blood Meridian to primary school library.
always felt like the banned books gimmick was just another ploy to make money. what do you mean the book is banned? search online and there’s loose pdfs and archives floating around. nothing truly dies now
>>25369202You ever notice how every single one of the "banned books" that they showcase is some blatant neoliberal propaganda?
>>25369202Can I get the Turner Diaries there?
Because Margaret Atwood is “safe edgy”. It feels cool to read a “banned book” and feel like you’re a rebel but at the same time people don’t want to look like a weirdo. Margaret Atwood fits both criteria. The banned books display at my Barnes and Noble is so shit and a perfect example of this. It has fucking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in it. I assumed some troll put it there but it’s remained there for months alongside Harry Potter and some book by Trevor Noah. The sad part is that a banned book section is actually a somewhat cool idea. It would be interesting to see books that were banned, censored, or heavily pushed back on. I’m not even asking for them to put only far right poltard books even something like The Prince has a much better case for being in the section than half the books already in it. I’m heading to the same store today so I’ll return with a pic of the display in a few hours.
based Dua Lipa ensuring Mein Kampf and the Turner Diaries are available to all
>>25373400In America "banned book" has a very different meaning than in other countries. All it means is one particular town or district decided to pull books from public libraries, including school libraries. That's it. The book's still available in stores, it's not illegal to own it, or to give it away for free on the street corner if you want, you just can't put it on a shelf in certain buildings. And to earn a spot on one of those "banned book" lists, you just have to have been banned once, by a single town or school district. So it's akin to somebody poking you in the arm, and then showing up in a cast and sling later claiming you were maimed.
>>25369202I mean modern 'banned books' are either some racist tirades nobody wants to read, a bomb manual, or some vaguely woke stuff a bunch of christian moms got mad about. The closest you're going to get to actually good books that were in some way repressed or 'banned' are unorthodox progressive authors that were forced into the Samizdat by the USSR, but were too progressive for Americans to promote as 'anti-communist' counter-literature. They ended up kind of deliberately forgotten or repressed from both sides of the cold war and as a result got some of the most criminally underrated novels ive ever read. Platonov, Daniil Kharms, Victor Serge, Vasily Grossman, etc.
>>25369202in america? 1984 and little red riding hood.
Like I said earlier here’s the banned books section at my local Barnes and Noble.
>>25373861I understand they may technically have been banned somewhere at some time but the whole thought process of>these forbidden books are banned and edgy but also they're taught in every school in every grade level in the country for decades and decadesIs either completely dishonest or completely schizophrenic. Either way it ends up being a completely meaningless marketing gimmick.
If it's doesn't go for 200 to a thousand bux on ebay its not banned.
If I was a lefty few things would make me more dubious about my stances than the sight of celebs and corporate middle manager types shilling this sort of shit for safe edgy cool points.
>>25373917The part that irks me is the dumbass quote. I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the giver, the hunger games and the crucible for school. I don’t know what schizo made this shelf. At least put some actually edgy shit like Julius Evola if you wanna larp as some fucking oppressed philosopher.
"Banned books" is a marketing gimmick. It usually means a random parent somewhere was mad or, more and more frequently, public workers were handing out porn to kids via taxpayer funded outlets.For some reason, midwits feel like heroic revolutionaries in a standoff against "literally Hitler" when some taxpayer says "maybe you shouldn't be inviting sex performers to hangout with toddlers at publically funded libraries and maybe don't give middle-schoolers books about how to prepare yourself for anal sex and meet homosexual strangers via the internet."
>>25369202>”I’ve been super interested in edgy books lately.” says the British singer. “I just finished this book by Confederate intellectual George Fitzhugh. In it, Fitzhugh posits that plantation slavery is actually the highest form of socialism because it provides laborers with security, shelter, and medical care, freeing them from the anxieties of surviving a ruthless free market. Really interesting stuff.”wtf
>The 100 titles are arranged across four themes: power, control, voice and memory.>Power examines who holds influence, who challenges it and who gets to define the narratives we inherit. The section includes The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts, Free by Lea Ypi, Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.>Control maps the mechanisms through which freedom of thought is constrained: surveillance, propaganda, ideology and the quieter instruments of institutional pressure. On these shelves: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, and Ai Weiwei on Censorship by the artist and activist whose exhibition A4 is currently showing at Livraria Lello.>Voice amplifies perspectives that have been systematically excluded or overlooked. The section features The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong and My Pen Is The Wing Of A Bird: New Fiction By Afghan Women.>Memory examines the relationship between history and erasure. These books preserve personal and collective testimony in the face of deliberate forgetting, particularly across contexts of war, dictatorship, exile and injustice. Among them: Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Patriot by Alexei Navalny, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera and The Books Of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk.
>>25369234Ironically you have the grifters to blame for that. The context is very funnyVauban Books acquired the rights to the book in 2025. Up until that point the author's estate had it locked down and didn't allow any new printings. They released the book to essentially zero acclaim. So for a marketing stunt they pretended to be banned from Amazon for a single day.It worked! Sorta. Obviously they wanted the attention and they tried directing people to their own website and trick people into paying $45 for the "hotly in demand" hardback edition which was never on Amazon in the first place. But their audience is obviously low IQ, so most people just googled "The Camp of the Saints" and started buying copies of the used 1970s edition.This in turn caused the bots, dropshippers and speculators to adjust prices and buy up stock, and now it's more expensive and rare than ever before.New it's pretty cheap, paperback for ~$20 and ebook for ~$10. But of course those aren't the editions people want, because Vauban inadvertently made the other edition much more rare and in-demand. Whoops!!
>>25369202I was just thinking about this because I listened to some baby boomers read poetry. It's safe and sanitized, like the Walmart of art. The mainstream is choking off all darkness and madness from literature. Albeit Atwood has put in some work in her career.
>>25373935I mean there are more radical leftwing books, you're just not going to find them at big box bookstores, you've got to go to leftwing bookstores to find them. You'll also find them at your show trial being presented to the jury before you're convicted for terrorism and sentenced to thirty years in federal prison, so maybe just stick to atwood if you don't want to get your life destroyed for a paperback written by a guy named "aragorn!"
>>25373434Why were these 'too progressive' for Americans
>>25369202I hate how angloids are capitalizing this absurdity.>seventy years ago [insert book] was banned in bolivia for two years, but pirated and imported copies were available
>>25373861>They both die at the end>Harry Potter>Trevor Noah>Hunger GamesWhat is this based country banning slop?
>>25374348It's dumber than that. It's parents saying "I don't think 'The Dumb Bunnies' is a good fit for our kindergarden library. Why don't we put something more tasteful instead?" And then libshits lose their mind and call it a banned book.
>>25373861>"banned" books>you can freely buy them>vive la resistance!
There is a women's clothes shop in my town called DV8. Their tagline is "your look - your way" or some nonsense in that direction. It is notably not an alt clothing shop. No goth clothes, no punk clothes, the most unremarkable, inoffensive, normie clothes a woman could wear, marketed and branded as a rebellious statement about your individuality. People, and especially young women, but people generally, like the label of being transgressive, but are horrified at the thought of the stigma associated with actually transgressing. That's why they like Atwood, because some very boring, very clever marketing psychos realised long ago that with persistent, widespread labelling you can sell the most generic, milquetoast slop as transgression without any of the downsides of actual transgression. I enjoyed Oryx and Crake thoughbeit.
>>25374758Oh, followimg from this, this is also why so many young women like to pretend to be into kinky sex or BDSM, when in fact what they like is for a partner to gently place their hands on their neck and say some slightly mean things about them.
>>25373861>>25373949>completely dishonestGentlemen, it is with great sadness I inform you that businesses sometimes deceive in order to sell their products...
>>25374766I can't believe this.
These people are the paid propagandists of the Rothschild globohomo project. They literally work for Jewish agents and producers who don’t function any differently from investment firms like BlackRock.
>>25369202>The Handmade's Tale>banned bookJust a couple of years ago you couldn't open your chops without somebody stuffing it down your throat.
>>25374766Wat?! That's false advertising!
>>25373861i'm in a neck brace now thanks
>>25373861For some reason I can't see The Anarchist's Cookbook on that shelf. Maybe it sold out already.
>>25375631kek
>>25375667Why would it be on this shelf?
>>25369202she's probably a federal agent.
even though this is a gay publicity stunt, maybe she'll get some women to read something that isn't smut or disney adult popcorn flicks
>>25374797books for this feel?
