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Yo yo yo! Sparky Sweets, PhD. here. Check me out as I break down 10 banned books off
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my banned books playlist.
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#5 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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In a violent future, a teenaged troublemaker
smacks up strangers, rapes housewives, and
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robs the rich before he's captured by The
Man and brainwashed.
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Why was it banned?
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Supposedly for its objectionable language
and themes. And probably the rape. I'm pretty
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sure the rape had something to do with it.
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#4 Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Your standard World War II story, if by standard
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you mean time-jumping, alien-abduction, intergalactic
zoos, and a bangin' actress in that zoo with
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aliens doing the time-jumping. Oh yeah, and
surviving the bombing of Dresden, too.
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Why was it banned?
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A Michigan judge called it depraved, immoral,
psychotic, vulgar, and anti-Christian, probably
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referring to the novel's profanity and depictions
of sex. Though I'm guessing it has something
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to do with the ILLUSTRATION OF TITIES ON PAGE
209. Drawn titties! And drawn titties are
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my second favorite kind of titties!
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#3 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
In a futuristic state full of pill-poppin'
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orgies, a savage outsider succumbs to the
artificial temptations of the dystopia and
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offs himself to escape it.
Why was it banned?
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Language, being anti-family and anti-religion,
and for being pornographic. I guess they're
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afraid it'll make teenagers want sex and drugs.
We all know teenagers typically HATE sex and
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HATE drugs.
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#2 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The story of a middle-aged man who has an
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ongoing relationship with a 12-year-old girl,
ending with him murdering the man she runs
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off with.
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Why was it banned?
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I don't know, maybe it has something to do
with the GROWN MAN HAVING SEX WITH A 12-YEAR-OLD
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GIRL.
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#1 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A family of destitute farmers travel from
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Oklahoma to California for work, only to be
met with low wages and mistreatment.
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Why was it banned?
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The Grapes of Wrath was burned all across
America because of its anti-capitalist propaganda,
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with the Associated Farmers of California
calling the novel a "pack of lies." Also controversial
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was its ending, where a woman lets two hungry
workers drink the milk from her titties. Wanna
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know what titties look like? Well just turn
to page 209 in Slaughterhouse-five!
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Check out our banned books playlist for more literature The Man don't want you to read.
