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09-28-2013, 09:54 AM | #16 |
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And yet Elvis could girate his pelvis and form Rock and Roll that generation created it.
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09-28-2013, 02:58 PM | #18 |
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I disagree 1000% with banning books of any kind. That said, Invisible Man was a crap book. No "literary value" is pretty much my opinion on it as well. I distinctly remember the first time I read it (high school AP English) and thinking "How in HELL did this piece of crap make it on the list" because it was so blatantly inferior to everything else we were reading at the time.
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09-28-2013, 03:20 PM | #19 |
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Im sure it was the sexual themes that upset the (probably white) woman in North Carolina, and not the "uppity-ness" of the narrator.
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I remember my first encounter with the book. I was sorely disappointed that it wasn't THE invisible man. Like the one who turns invisible.
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I have one but have to admit I have never read the book.
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I'm sure this will backfire big time. Every student in that school will read the book now, even if they would never read a book on their own normally.
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