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What American books should be banned in the UK?

With Shakespeare being banned in part of Florida, what American books should we ban in the UK?

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Dlrannie · 31-35, F

Anything claimed to have been written by Donald J Trump😂😂😂

SW-User

No books should really be banned for adults. We all have our tastes.

AlchemyFox · 36-40, F

Ban the government, not books.

maskedbandit · 61-69, M

No books should be banned or destroyed, ever. Just put them on the self until we are old enough to read and understand them. 😂 🤷‍♂️ 🙂

SW-User

Anything with a reference to woke.

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Slade · 56-60, M

@SW-User that's terrible. I don't want to dream about what could be wrong with stained glass windows. And shame on the bishops for weakly abing by it

revenant · F

@SW-User wowowowo......but what on earth could be wrong with stained glass windows ?

NativePortlander1970 ·

@SW-User Henry VIII would have them all burned as heretics.

ImpeccablyImperfect · 51-55, F

None!

Here’s a thought….stop with all the banning and censoring of everything that doesn’t line up with your opinions.

(I use the term ‘your’ in a general sense, not YOU specifically)

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

Anything written by the Confederates

HannibalAteMeOut · 22-25, F

The book of Mormon

akindheart · 61-69, F

@HannibalAteMeOut i agree. i hated that play.

thisguy20 · 41-45, M

The Art of the Deal

pride49 · 31-35, M

Why is Shakespeare being banned? Sorry but no books should be banned

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ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

@akindheart So the Bible is out, I assume?

pride49 · 31-35, M

@akindheart um. Don't? Let kids read that? Seems pretty obvious. Or maybe lonely mothers could stash their smutt? Seriously.

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@pride49 it isn't. Liberals being over dramatic.

PoetryNEmotion · F

I do.not support censorship in books.

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PoetryNEmotion · F

@MasterLee Who determines this? Close- minded religious prudes? I shall not debate this. People are flawed. They cannot censor when they are flawed.

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@PoetryNEmotion the law states that pornography and sexual information be restricted from minors. Of course you won't debate because it is wrong.

PoetryNEmotion · F

@MasterLee You are a pompous man. Do not waste my time. You are master of nothing. Be gone.

GeniUs · 56-60, M

Anything that talks about The War of Independence being about religious freedom and taxation without representation. It was all about greedy people not wanting to pay their dues and recognising that there was vast wealth for the powerful who'd crossed the Atlantic. The excuses were to get the average man and woman to fight the war for the wealthy.

Slade · 56-60, M

@GeniUs 🤡🙄

Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M

God Desantis is such a weird little virgin of a man

Nimbus · M

Joe Biden.
My rise to fame and infamy.

metaldog

bible 😈

SW-User

@metaldog Well if you are going to ban our English heritage, I suppose it follows the you will ban the King James Version of the Bible, which is the most beautiful expression of the English language. What have you got in America to compare?

SW-User

@SW-User To be fair, we had Dickens thrust upon us in school. I would rather have had the poems of Edgar Allen Poe or the novels of Ernest Hemingway.

Slade · 56-60, M

Nothing is banned in FL or anywhere else here. Some are just kept out of grammer and middle schools

Drama Queen much?

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Slade you nailed it. i don't want my kids learning explicit sex. have they taken it too far? probably. but who knows with the media

auris · M

Wait what? The americans banned shakespeare?

Wol62 · 51-55, M

@auris For being too woke.

auris · M

@Wol62 How?

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@auris no they didn't. It's just the all or nothing liberals whining.

Mamapolo2016 · F

The Florida legal code

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Convivial · 26-30, F

@Mamapolo2016 it has one?
I thought they just made things up as they went along?

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Convivial Well, they do, but then they write it down so they don't forget.

Convivial · 26-30, F

@Mamapolo2016 an, ok, now i understand

Wol62 · 51-55, M

Anything by Ayn Rand of course.

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@Wol62 why?

Wol62 · 51-55, M

@MasterLee Because she is a dreadful writer.

Wol62 · 51-55, M

The novels of S.E Hinton. Every book was the same...

wildbill83 · 36-40, M

several already are...

such as

ServantOfTheGoddess · 61-69, M

The "Left Behind" series.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@ServantOfTheGoddess you go to any thrift store here and find that entire series and also the twilight one.

At one time people were pre-ordering twilight books but now thrift stores cannot even get rid of them.

SW-User

@Slade So Sky News has got it wrong.
There is no DeSantis law on parental rights in Education. And no Hillsborough County restriction on Shakespeare.
I’ll keep believing the Earth is flat too.

Slade · 56-60, M

@SW-User restriction is the word. It's not required reading in grammer and middke schools anymore. That's as far as it goes

Hardly a blanket ban

SW-User

@Slade Restriction means ban in British English.

To be fair we have had restrictions in England too. DH Lawrence. And in the Thatcher era, anything that promoted gay.

CestManan · 46-50, F

Why do the feds have such a hard-on about banning books now?

I mean it started with LGBT books and of course the conservatives were happy but now they are just going for damn near ANY books to ban.

Slade · 56-60, M

@CestManan They are huh?

helenS · 36-40, F

Shakespeare being "banned" in parts of Florida? What the f*ck are you talking about??? 🤨

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TexChik · F

@helenS Wokeness demands ignorance

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@helenS it isn't

helenS · 36-40, F

@MasterLee I thought so 🌷

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

Hey, the UK led the way in censoring Shakespeare -- remember Thomas Bowdler and his family friendly editions of the Bard?

SW-User

@ChipmunkErnie The late Tudor and early Jacobian playwrights had to treat very carefully.

originnone · 61-69, M

@ChipmunkErnie I sort of wish some of his plays had been banned for the four years I was in high school. Keep Macbeth and hamlet. I really didn't like R and J.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

Why are people in Florida banning the bard?

I didn't even think they read at that level.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Thevy29 well we do. we even have Shakespeare by the sea. Certain books were banned for sexual content. way beyond normal reading. but the libs have taken it a little too far to make an issue of it

thisguy20 · 41-45, M

@Thevy29 They can't: that's why they're banning it.

SatyrService · M

Florida is a Banana Republic
dont take it as a standard of this country

ronisme1 · 61-69, M

None, books should never be banned. Even the most hateful, racist type.,

Convivial · 26-30, F

Please tell me you're joking?

SW-User

@Convivial Hillsborough County, according to Sky news.

Shakespeare is pivotal to our English heritage, whether the present generation like it or not.

Please do not make woke yours.

Convivial · 26-30, F

@SW-User thanks for that info... And no, we won't

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@Convivial they are joking

TJNewton · M

Any that contains spelling mistakes so i guess that will be all of them

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

Why’d they ban the Bard? 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

MasterLee · 56-60, M

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout they didn't

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

How to spell in English the American edition

bijouxbroussard · F

No books should be banned. Just because some states in [b]our[/b] country are regressing in fear of an educated population is no reason to follow suit. 🤨

basilfawlty89 · 31-35, M

The Turner Diaries

BlueGreenGrey ·

[i]The Art of the Deal[/i]
[i]Dianetics[/i]

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