tree_and_leaf | (no subject)

While I'd quite like to believe this (who doesn't love a story about kids fighting for the right to read what they want?) I find it hard to believe that a Roman Catholic school* would ban some of these. I mean, admittedly you might censor Paradise Lost, because its Christology is certainly very dubious, but getting upset about works on human evolution is more of a fundamentalist Protestant thing, and I can't imagine why any school that didn't have a Stalinist axe to grind would want to ban Animal Farm.

But.... Dante? I'm not buying it without considerably more substantiation.

* The OP doesn't specify what kind of 'strict private school' they attend, but states that "most of the books contained information that opposed Catholicism".

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As an explanation why a school *might* ban that particular list of books I suppose, just about. As an explanation why the kids don't get them from the local library, doubtful. I'm with

tree_and_leaf here; there's something about that list which pings me as off, and what pings me is that it's not a list of books which I'd expect kids to be panting to read in the first place. It feels middle-aged.