According to the ALA, the first reason given was "insensitivity." Perhaps that's why the book has, at times, been banned from high school reading lists. You might be wondering what about this book some people found so objectionable. Oddly, the book also predicts a lack of individuality, which, some might feel, could never have been imagined by those behind the drive to globalization. The book has enjoyed some wonderful cover art. That's a similar reaction to the one I get when I watch a James Cameron movie. Well, actually, in the book it's called a "feelie", and it gets you all over. It also offers the idea that the highest form of entertainment will be a James Cameron 3D movie. It offers such utterly nonsensical notions as people taking a drug called "soma" to battle depression. Should you have not managed to encounter this book, it is a clearly seditious tome that offers such ideas as "Community, Identity and Stability" being the motto of a World State in the mid-21st century. 3, sits one of the more joyous works of science fiction, Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World". It so happens that the American Libraries Association, conscious of its continuing role in monitoring the national mood and culture, issues a list of those books that have been challenged by individuals or news organizations in 2010.Īnd there, at No. I had always assumed that Google and Amazon had corralled the library system between them, leaving few with the need to go and sit next to the coughing, the chatting, and the lonely.īut it seems that people do still go to libraries and still object to some of the books they see there.
I am not sure what sorts of people go to libraries these days.
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