Howard Bagwell wants to pull \”The Catcher in the Rye\” off the bookshelves in school libraries, he thinks it\’s inappropriate for teens, unfortunatly he is a School Board member in South Carolina. Bagwell checked out one copy of \”The Catcher in the Rye\” at Summerville High School\’s library last week. He checked another out at Fort Dorchester High on Wednesday. He plans to buy them from the schools instead of returning them.
\”It is a filthy, filthy book,\” Bagwell said. \”It has 269 some odd pages or so, and if you took out all the (profanity), the sarcasm, the mockery of old people, the mockery of women and decent people, you would get to read about 10 minutes\’ worth. I can\’t figure out for the life of me why it is considered an important book.\”
I honestly can\’t figure out why it\’s important, or why someone would hate it, either.
Full Story from charleston.net, with props going to Mefi.
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