On a question posted to Yahoo! Answers, a high school student asks, Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?, then continues:
“Let me explain.
I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we’re not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well… I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality. Some of these books are:
>The Perks of Being a Wallflower
>His Dark Materials trilogy
>Sabriel
>The Canterbury Tales
>Candide
>The Divine Comedy
>Paradise Lost
>The Godfather
>Mort
>Interview with the Vampire
>The Hunger Games
>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
>Animal Farm
>The Witches
>Shade’s Children
>The Evolution of Man
> the Holy Qu’ran
… and lots more.
On a question posted to Yahoo! Answers, a high school student asks, Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?, then continues:
“Let me explain.
I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we’re not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well… I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality. Some of these books are:
>The Perks of Being a Wallflower
>His Dark Materials trilogy
>Sabriel
>The Canterbury Tales
>Candide
>The Divine Comedy
>Paradise Lost
>The Godfather
>Mort
>Interview with the Vampire
>The Hunger Games
>The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
>Animal Farm
>The Witches
>Shade’s Children
>The Evolution of Man
> the Holy Qu’ran
… and lots more.
Anyway, I now operate a little mini-library that no one has access to but myself. Practically a real library, because I keep an inventory log and give people due dates and everything…”
My hero. [read rest of Yahoo! Answers post]
Hoax?
I think it’s bogus. Too anonymous! Too perfect!
WTF
What is this “Footloose 2: Library Edition”?
Something’s fishy in Catholic school
I agree it might be false. Read the original posting on yahoo answers.. most of the way down the page there is a poster who refers to another question Kat posted asking for a list of banned books in which she says something about a friend at a private school. I tried to investigate the same question, but all Kat’s Q & A is now set to private… I think this story is unlikely. It’s too bad it has been seized upon by so many other websites so quickly!
It’s false.
I just posted the “Something’s fishy in Catholic school” comment and I realized I could search for her other question (I’m not a YahooAnswers user- had to sign up just to search so please excuse my naivete!) and here is the link. She clearly states that her school does not have a banned book list but a friend goes to Catholic school and they have a list which is supposedly 10 pages long.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiJv6RhfH8reKk2Udz1DNN0jzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20090303155822AAUdqXd
::laughs::
The Italians have a saying: “I don’t know if it’s true or not, but it’s a good story.”
“Electricity is really just organized lightning.” – George Carlin
To vague
Sounds to me like someone wanted to stir up lively debate or start a flame war.