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The Most Misunderstood Books?
Demetrius
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Dec 14, 2014 11:28AM
How about a list of books misunderstood by many people or misread on first reading? Most of these books were attacked as being simply trashy and nothing more.
1. Catcher in the Rye
2. The Godfather : Puzo was bothered that some people missed the point and thought he was simply glorifying the mafia.
3 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest: Attacked as porno. Have to read again as I don't recall these things being in book :
"1974: Five residents of Strongsville, Ohio sued the local Board of Education to remove the novel from classrooms. They deemed the book "pornographic" and said that it "glorifies criminal activity, has a tendency to corrupt juveniles, and contains descriptions of bestiality, bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and human elimination".
1975: The book was removed from public schools in Randolph, New York and Alton, Oklahoma
1977: Removed from the required reading list in Westport, Maine"
1. Catcher in the Rye
2. The Godfather : Puzo was bothered that some people missed the point and thought he was simply glorifying the mafia.
3 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest: Attacked as porno. Have to read again as I don't recall these things being in book :
"1974: Five residents of Strongsville, Ohio sued the local Board of Education to remove the novel from classrooms. They deemed the book "pornographic" and said that it "glorifies criminal activity, has a tendency to corrupt juveniles, and contains descriptions of bestiality, bizarre violence, and torture, dismemberment, death, and human elimination".
1975: The book was removed from public schools in Randolph, New York and Alton, Oklahoma
1977: Removed from the required reading list in Westport, Maine"
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I've been told several times that I have misunderstood "The Story of O".
I would second Lolita and Catcher in the Rye.
Here's a link to an interesting article on six books that are purportedly often misunderstood:
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"The Prince" by Machiavelli
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
http://www.cracked.com/article_18787_...
Here's a link to an interesting article on six books that are purportedly often misunderstood:
"The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
"Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
"The Prince" by Machiavelli
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll
"On the Road" by Jack Kerouac
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche
http://www.cracked.com/article_18787_...
All Fairy Tales are misunderstood! People think they paint some glorious picture of an idyllic (and impossible to attain) existence, when in reality they are bleak reflections of superstitious life in the Middle Ages.
Demetrius Sherman
Original Sleeping Beauty , Prince sees underage girl asleep and he has sex with her. Beauty wakes up to adulthood by being pregnant and all. Jack was
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Which one? James Thurber`s or the multiple X one?
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