[Dragaera] [OT?] Read banned books!

[Jon_Lincicum at stream.com]

Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> 
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>Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:
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>>This may be slightly OT, but I saw this on Slashdot this morning, and 
>>thought the list members might appreciate it.
>>
>>It appears Google Books is publishing banned titles on their website:
>>
>>http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/
>> 
>>
>That seems to be a list of books banned because they are popular.   I 
>don't have all of them, and there's one on that list that I have, but 
>haven't read, but they are all acclaimed popular books.

Well, I'd say it's a list of popular books that are banned. 

But that's somewhat understandable. If "Farenheit 451" or "Huckleberry 
Finn" are banned, it's a "suppression of great literature". If "Suzy Goes 
to the Toilet" is banned, the outcry is likely to be much smaller.

Majikjon