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Originally Posted by Animal Boything
What the fuck? I would be interested to know exactly what "JFK/Reagan thing" you are talking about.
I read it in school too, but I know there's been a lot of controversy about teaching it for really dumb reasons... puritanical idiots flipping out over the vaguest mention of sex and a few very mild examples of coarse language. The kind of people who want to ban this book are the kind of people who would love to ban any book that doesn't have the words "holy" and "bible" in the title. If they were to read, say, Of Mice and Men, it would probably kill them.
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I read that it was banned in American Schools somewhere... I'm not American so it could have been wrong... looks like I am.
The JFK/Reagan thing, you've not heard of the connections of this book with Lee Harvey Oswald and John Hinckley Jr? I just made an (obviously incorrect) assumption that maybe the powers that be in the US thought that by reading this book American youths would go out and attempt to assassinate Presidents...