A person can decide that they don't want to read a certain book. They can decide that they don't want their child to read that book. But they can't decide that an entire school or entire town can't read that book.

@deltatango5765

Ай бұрын

Agreed, but I think the problem is that the school doesn't give them that choice. They just hand out the books to the entire class, and if the parent doesn't want their kid to read it, too bad.

Literature is a safe place to process hard truths.

@jonathanfeldheim6554

Ай бұрын

Finding out the Lord of the Flies book I read was the "edited for America" version kinda pisses me off....processing that hard truth is....hard

@MeetThaNewDealer

Ай бұрын

You have said the actual truth.

@sketchygetchey8299

Ай бұрын

@@jonathanfeldheim6554”freedom of speech” is really going far!

@drfranks1158

Ай бұрын

It only works if the reader can read. Knowing what A word is does not mean a person can understand a bunch of words strung together into a sentence. Not everyone can get this far and understand what I wrote, even if they can identify some of these words.

@Stukupgorgeous1

Ай бұрын

Ten thousand likes for that sentence.

If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking.

Fahrenheit 451 is feeling left out as are Lolita, 1984, Catch 22, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and many many more.

@TH-hy9kr

Ай бұрын

Three of those are on my shelf ❤

@katarinadreams6955

Ай бұрын

I read a few pages of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Ronald Dahl and stopped after reading the racially insensitive name given to the Chinese prime minister

@6thwilbury2331

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, good call... Lolita even had two different versions. So that's twice spurned.

I find it interesting that Gloria Steinem found the book of American Psycho misogynistic only for her own step-son to play the main character in the film version.

@ayebing

Ай бұрын

And directed by a woman 😂

@effkay3691

20 күн бұрын

If the lead character is a misogynist then probably the movie will depict misogyny. She may be stating the obvious.

To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies were both required reading at my school. We also watched the film for both after reading each book. TKaM is still one of my favorites from school and i made sure to grab a copy when i saw it in a used bookstore. Gregory Peck is still an incredible Atticus

@nickc247

Ай бұрын

Most of the versions you read in modern high schools are edited versions with many of the graphic parts cut out.

@milleijones2828

Ай бұрын

@@nickc247 That's a shame. Our high school lit class studied" To Kill . . ." uncensored. However, they weren't brave enough to have us read "Lord of the Flies"

@justhereforthevideos2798

Ай бұрын

Same here in Canada

@chromicapop4595

Ай бұрын

Same we read first in public school 7th grade then latter in private school of 60 kids(willow hill) super engaging

@johnkrieger185

23 күн бұрын

"Incredible" means unbelievable.

I love how you mentioned prison in the first 30 seconds. As a former DOC inmate, the rules on what books get through are ridiculous. If you have a family member send you a book and DOC rejects it, the prison review board sends you a letter explaining the reason. Game of Thrones was rejected because it had incest in it - big surprise there. The Philippa Gregory books were rejected because of “sexual content” and yet somehow they allowed all of these urban books in that had explicit sex scenes on every other page. And then the worst was when my brother sent me a book about Saint Patrick - DOC rejected it because they said it depicted “child trafficking.” - Patrick was sold into slavery to the druids when he was a kid in the 3rd Century! I just wondered who the small minds were that were in charge of the project…but needless to say, they didn’t want us to elevate ourselves, which is why they wanted people to just keep reading crappy mystery and urban books.

I will never be done being exasperated by people who think that if a thing isn't discussed then it didn't happen.

I bought and read "Peyton Place" when I was 19 years old in 1961 because it was banned in many libraries, some states and several countries. including Canada. for being obscene. I wasn't impressed. I wouldn't have purchased it if it hadn't been banned.

Kinda crazy that ppl try to ban books based on things that actually happen. Women menstruate and teenagers have sex, why is that ban worthy? You can see a story about murder or incest on the news but can’t read it in a book?? That’s a bit ridiculous

@TH-hy9kr

Ай бұрын

Fundys pretend everyone is conceived within the confines of marriage and delivered by storks.

@u-neekusername4430

6 күн бұрын

Didn't you know menstruation is GROSS, nice girls don't talk about it, it's shameful....oh yeah, n it's also much easier to "less than" an entire group of people by stigmatising their basic biological functions or inherited genetic traits. All these banned book subjects are about control & power over - a narrative, a population, a belief system, an agenda. So sadly it's not ridiculous, it's calculated & intentional to the point where it becomes unconscious & unquestioned "reasoning" by many after generations of normalisation. BTW Diving deep into sociology (& industrial & social complexes) is literally the source of most of my nightmares. Truly bloody horrifying - menstrual pun intended.

To Kill a Mockingbird is still one of my favorite books. I had to read it for 7th grade English (at a private school, gasp!) and fell in love with the characters and story.

@user-cx6vl1tg4f

Ай бұрын

Same! It impacted me in a big way.

@benjamindover4337

Ай бұрын

When people say To Kill a Mockingbird is their favorite book, I can't help but wonder if they're revealing that the only books they've read are those they were forced to read in middle-school.

_Slaughterhouse-Five_ was such a trip. Definitely a book that's worth a reread as an adult, his idea of being "unstuck" in time is such a cool framing device and it gives you SO MUCH to think about. "So it goes. . ."

To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic…the movie and the book.

You forgot to mention one ironic fact about American Psycho: though Gloria Steinem called for the book to be banned, ironically, her stepson, Christian Bale, played the main character in the movie. Yep. Christian Bale is Gloria Steinem's stepson.

The way he says "the pig's blood prom scene" so cheerily 😂

@MetalMouse67

Ай бұрын

The pinnacle of every prom 😂

Lets not forget Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis. The book is brilliant. And to my mind, To Kill a Mockingbird is the Great American Novel and is one of my favorite movies.

Love these vids w fun narrator guy 👍🏼

I took a class in college comparing books and their movie adaptation. Quite the list to pick from! I really like "A Clockwork Orange", "Carrie", "To Kill A Mockingbird". Others not on your list include "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", "Iron Weed" (I live in Albany, New York, so it was a local thing)and "The Great Gatsby", which I saw three different movie versions of. I always enjoy seeing similarities and differences between book and film adaptation...

@johnkrieger185

23 күн бұрын

Every adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" has been considered inadequate---even at the time of its release.

I have absolutely no problem with prisons banning certain books from their libraries. I have some problem with schools banning books. But for the general public, anything written should be available to any adult wishing to read it. Except, maybe, books on how to build bombs and the like.

@Dave-bj3pq

Ай бұрын

So you ban only what you feel should be banned.. ok😂

@hyperchord

28 күн бұрын

@@Dave-bj3pq What would you ban?

Another classic (some say the greatest Modern novel) James Joyce's "Ulysses" was banned almost everywhere for a while. And yes, believe it or not there is a movie based on the book and it can be seen on YT.

I didn't read Lord of the Flies or To Kill a Mockingbird for school - we had other requirements when I was finishing up - but both are great books. I can see why some prudes would want them banned, but I read them both for pleasure when I was 17 or 18 and they were both great.

I've read about 90% of these books and seem maybe 50% of the movies. And although not all of them were my cuppa tea, I'm sure glad I had the freedom to make that decision on my own. I can see age restriction, possibly, but it sure seems like we have a whole bunch of "big" kids who are easily hurt nowadays, because they grew up in bubbles of protection. Sticks and stones for those of you who know. I don't know if they allow children to hear that rhyme anymore.

@starflakey

Ай бұрын

👍

@uosdwisrdewoh418

Ай бұрын

I know its a tad pedantic, but your using of percents makes it sound like you read all but a tenth of each book and have only watched half of each movie. Why not just say most and half?

@meganh4011

Ай бұрын

@@uosdwisrdewoh418 I don't know sorry to let you down

Most of these are absurd to ban in schools but I can see the arguments about A Clock Work Orange and American Psycho. If you haven’t read them, the films look like TV-G compared to the actual books. I remember having to actually stop for a few seconds at times in American Psycho and just wait for a few seconds before going on because certain moments were beyond f***ed up.

Very good subject. Thanks alot.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird 2. The Color Purple 3. Lord of the Flies 4. Carrie 5. Slaughterhouse-Five 6. Sophie's Choice 7. Gone With the Wind 8. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret 9. A Clockwork Orange 10. American Psycho 11. Brokeback Mountain 12. The Kite Runner 13. A Wrinkle in Time

This needs a part two... 1984 by George Orwell which was adapted into film and TV movies numerous times. As well as Animal Farm, which was an animated feature film and a TV movie that was live-action with CGI Babe-style. ("That'll do, pig. That'll do.) Crash by JG Ballard, adapted by writer/director David Cronenberg as well as Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs and also adapted by David Cronenberg. Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom by The Marquis De Sade and adapted by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who was possibly murdered for making the film. Well, he was actually murdered but it's not entirely proven it was for making the movie or for political reasons or possibly both. To be fair, I can't really blame Weird History for not bringing that up. If you know, you know... Honorable Mention: Battle Royale by Koushon Takami, which was never technically banned despite the best efforts of the Japanese Parliament towards the novel and the film.

@SunflowerHeliotrope

Ай бұрын

Totally agree. There needs to be a part 2. I mean, it’ll be impossible for Weird History to do a video that mentions *every* banned book that later became a movie, but there are others out there that were huge commercial successes that should’ve at least gotten an honorable mention: Harry Potter, 50 Shades of Grey, Da Vinci Code, etc. The publicity from banning these books (as mentioned in this video) only made people want to read them more.

@johnkrieger185

23 күн бұрын

He was murdered by one of the boys he paid to have sex with. Maybe the conspiracies are true. Maybe they aren't----it could be that the boy just killed him for personal reasons.

I remember when the Brokeback Mountain movie came out, it started a stereotype in my high school that cowboys were gay for whatever reason 😂 Funny part is back then, my town was still pretty big in livestock, so there were a LOT of cowboys, or children of cowboys, ranch hands, and farmers in the high school

To Kill a Mockingbird had a Broadway adaptation that hit the road last summer with Richard Thomas (John Boy Walton) playing Atticus Finch. Saw it for my bday.

Utah briefly banned the bible from schools because it fit the state's definition of books that should be banned.

4:45 "Slaughterhouse-Five" was the subject of a significant scene in the film Footloose.

Half of these books were on the required reading list at my New Zealand high school. Americans are weird about books, seeing difficult stories as some kind of threat rather than a social good.

@vashtic2036

Ай бұрын

Like... To Kill A Mockingbird contains "offensive language" because that's the way white people spoke to/of black people back then- and sometimes even today. The real world is OFTEN inappropriate, and entirely sheltering children from difficult stories in education just alienates the kids who experience those stories IRL from those who do not... they have to know it happens to understand why it's wrong.

Books Should Not be banned.

@Jolis_Parsec

Ай бұрын

Nor should they be burned, which is sadly what tends to come after being banned in an authoritarian society. Can’t be letting people expand their knowledge with inconvenient truths, y’know? 😞

@jesusisunstoppable4438

Ай бұрын

@@Jolis_Parsec I do know. Inconvenient truths can be Sobs for the higher ups.

If you haven't read any of these books or seen the films, but you want to (BY YOUR OWN CHOICE), I'd suggest you do so...while you can. More bans may be forthcoming.

@benjamindover4337

Ай бұрын

Gee, thanks for the warning 🙄

@ayebing

Ай бұрын

I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.

Does anyone remember the boy in the striped pajama 😢

Kite runner was a real tear jerker , my entire class was weeping and it was AWESOME!

The simpsons did a lord of the flies episode too.

@Blak2blue

Ай бұрын

Like thier version better!

If someone tells you a book should be banned, immediately read the shit out of it. Read [REDACTED]

@jrmckim

Ай бұрын

What My Struggle by The Failed Painter?

Clever narrator. RIP Robert Muldoon! 🎉 whoop whoop! Thanks for that addition I appreciated that.

I still remember the days of having to read To Kill A Mockingbird in school

I've always loved Remington's painting, "The Fall of the Cowboy", shown during the "Brokeback Mountain" part. I saw it at the New York Metropolitan Museum when it visited sometime in the 1980s.

0:40 The Lovely Bones is an awesome book and film combo!

Another masterpiece upload from an incredible channel, thank you ❤

I saved this video so that I can go and buy every one of these books. Except for 1. I already have a beautiful copy of gone with the wind. I've seen a lot of the screen adaptations of these books, but reading is... fun-damental 😊

Yes , yes , the Voice is here 🎉😊👍🏼!

Now let's see Paul Allen's novel.

I sure wish this narrator would just do all the videos again he makes the videos very interesting

The modern Wrinkle in the Time movie, it looks horrible haha

@gjd424

Ай бұрын

Yeah the narrators said it had “mixed reviews” and “lost money at the box office” aka should have said it was “a big flop!”

@caronstout354

Ай бұрын

Both versions were awful...

A+ video! LOVE IT! What an amazing topic and video, such great books and films!

A book that was also censured or banned was "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison. To be honest I read it during my bachelor's degree and I was really haunted for a while. I am white and though I can't relate to some situations narrated in the book, I was really upset... especially because of *some* chapters. A book that is one of the greatest novels in my country, Os Maias, is also usually banned or censored, especially in Catholic Private Schools. The protagonists falls in love with his long lost sister and the elite of Lisbon is criticised. But the problem is usually the inc*st.

@sbloome77

Ай бұрын

Yes “The Bluest Eye” was an amazing and deep read

Slaughterhouse 5 was the book that introduced me to Kurt Vonnegut. My understanding of science fiction was completely upended.

@SunflowerHeliotrope

Ай бұрын

Same, I’ve been on a Vonnegut reading spree ever since. I’m astounded I wasn’t introduced to his work until adulthood. Well…almost. If my local library doesn’t have it, I can always find a copy at a used bookstore.

To kill a kockingbird was required reading in the 80s

Kubrick also did Lolita, another banned book.

@caronstout354

Ай бұрын

And "A Clockwork Orange"

I love it when books get banned… it makes more people want to read them

It's weird to me that when I started seeing images/memes online for American Psycho, I thought it was from some movie I never saw in the '80s or '90s because I was too young (even though I had seen plenty of violent/sexualized movies as a kid, it was the 80s). Turns out it was from 2000? When I was in my 20s? I guess I just missed ALL the advertising and movie posters about it at the time.

@killerfreckles1162

12 күн бұрын

Weirdly same. I really thought it was an early 90’s movie.

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Puberty Blues (1979) by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette. film in 1982 wile calls for bans and censorship of the book where in full swing and a TV series in 2012-214 (17 eps over two seasons) the book is still controversial to this day and even it's censored productions still cop heat from the "Concerned Citizens" and parents.

I’m glad some more contemporary books made the list (The Kite Runner, American Psycho, etc.), but I’m surprised 50 Shades of Grey, the Harry Potter series, The Da Vinci Code, Bridge to Terabithia, or any books by Roald Dahl, didn’t make the list. There should be a part 2 video because, let’s be real here: no one would have read those books without the “bans” making a big stink over them. I only read Da Vinci Code and 50 Shades (as an adult) because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about…and when I was done reading them I asked myself “*This* is what they’re up in arms about? Seriously?!” 😂

A Wrinkle in Time, the rest of the Time Quintet, and L'Engle's other novels have always been favorites of mine. I first stumbled upon the books in my church's library, which makes sense since L'Engle was Episcopalian. I always found it ironic that it was occasionally banned by religious people.

The Color Purple didn't launch the career of Oprah Winfrey. She was already fairly big at that point in her career. 🤔

@nickc247

Ай бұрын

Not really. Before The Color Purple, all she had done was local programming. She was a news anchor in Baltimore and Chicago. And she had a show on Chicago public access. The Oprah Winfrey Show didn't premiere nationally until a year after The Color Purple was released.

@billm2078

Ай бұрын

Big, that describes her perfectly.

1:58 The book The Color Purple is an example of an epistolary, it is a novel told through written letters. It's such a great book, whenever I think of an epstolary I think of it first! Also, December 7th is National Letter Writing Day (my birthday).

Bookstores all have displays of banned books. Whoever is banning these things sure sick at their job!

Gone with the wind is one of my favourite movies of all time

Part 2 needed

I think books with any kind sexual abuse in the plot shouldn't be a mandatory read in high schools. An option? Sure! Sadly, a lot of young women get abused in their teen years and books like these are extremely hard to read when you're going through the emotional roller coaster of growing up on top of having a reminder of your abuse plastered in front of your face for weeks. It feels horrible to go through!

What a great topic. There was never a time in history when the good guys banned books.

Please don't take books away from children. That's messed up. Children should read.

you should make a full-length video on the kent state shootings. never been more relevant than this moment

I love this narrator, he really makes this channel 👌

Those who banned these books were a bunch of emotional wimps

How many people have read Fifty Shades trilogy - has that been banned? Double standards 🙄

@caronstout354

Ай бұрын

Weren't they called "mommy porn" when they were published?

Sophomore English for To Kill a Mockingbird? I read that in the 7th grade!

I saw to kill a mockingbird when I was a teenager on tcm

@btetschner

Ай бұрын

Love TCM!

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Harry Potter films.

it's depressing to know that mentioning a natural biological function like menstruation can get a book banned. that first period is such a traumatizing thing, especially when you aren't allowed to talk about it with anyone. i wonder if social media bans any mention of it, too. 🤔

You wants know what I think ? I love your shows !

Lent the first 4 Harry Potter books (hardbacks too) to a dear friend over the summer of 2005. The 5th book was coming that July and she wanted to get them read by then. Her dad found her reading them and gathered other Christies. My term for ignorant hypocritical mega-religious Christians. Kinda like the Karens of Christianity. Anywho, they did a book burning and included any and all Harry Potter books or magazines they got their hands on. Later on my mom threatened to sue for lost property and emotional damages. He quickly repaid the price of books and apologized.

@Jolis_Parsec

Ай бұрын

Pharisees or Holier Than Thous are what I call them, as they tend to be quite hypocritical and act as if they’re completely blameless when they clearly aren’t.

Forgot the 1500+ other books Florida and Texas have banned in recent years.

@JuhiSRK

Ай бұрын

Because they both have Christofascist governors that pander to the ultra right wing base & their idol, Trump.

@matthewwelsh294

Ай бұрын

Because Republicans love getting triggered easily lol

I'd put Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs, here -- yes, I know the movie was a bit of a lobotamized joke, but so was the movie of American Psycho. Some books just refuse to be translated to the screen.

3:49 Bob Peck.

I went to a HS that was predominately white back in the late 90s. I was the only minority in my English class when we had to read "to kill a mockingbird" My English teacher pulled me to the side after class to tell me the book had some heavy "racial language"(its says the n word alot) and if it made me uncomfotable, that she would switch my reading. I said i should be fine but id let her know The next day in class when she hadned out the books, she made sure to remind the class that this book is a product of a different era and that she would not tolerate discrimination of any kind in her class I always appreciated the fact she let me make the decision myself and considered how i may have felt about reading the book. It ended up being one of my favorite reads that year

Gone With the Wind was a movie that my class watched in US Government. I fell asleep during it and have not watched it since. Of course, that also happened during the Hobbit (or whichever movie is chronologically first. I loved a Wrinkle in Time from the first watch. Now I own the movie. I've seen Carrie and a few other movies/books on this list, but not all of them. My theory is: if you don't like a book or movie...don't watch it. Banning it only ruins it for those who want to read/watch it.

@Jolis_Parsec

Ай бұрын

Wait, you fell asleep during the Hobbit? Was it the weird animated 70s version, by any chance?

@alicerivierre

Ай бұрын

Ditto on the personal choice of wanting to read/watch something or not. I go by that too. Censorship ruins the chance for people to obtain information and stories.

@kandipiatkowski8589

Ай бұрын

@@Jolis_Parsec no. It was the Peter Jackson version. It just didn't interest me at the time (to be fair, I fell asleep during many movies around that time). I did watch the entire 9 (?) movies once thru, but still am not a fan. I did watch the Hobbit animated version back in the 80s, but it was just ok. I don't know if things would have been different if I had watched the series before Harry Potter, but it ruined me for a lot of fantasy movies. I have watched it so many times...and love every minute of it!

The movie To Kill a Mockingbird did not include the old neighbor woman who was addicted to morphine

What fixed your voice?? Was it the neti pot or the honey in your tea? Glad you’re feeling better!

1. loved to "to kill a mockingbird"!!! lord of the flies, i was excited about and let down bc the teacher wanted us to "analyze" why they did what they did. im not good at that/. 2.if schools dont want it on their shelves, dont publicize removing it. i bet most kids would never learn of it. once they hear its "banned" for some reason, theyre going to go looking for it at least i would...just to see why i shouldnt be allowed to read it ...PLUS, teachers want kids reading more ....right?

No Catcher in the Rye? To Kill a Mocking Bird was good as was The Kite Runner. The latter was very messed up though.

Wait, they actually banned To Kill A Mockingbird? I remember my high school teacher reading out chapters of it in class and finding funny replacements for some of the more “problematic” words in the book.

@cherrypink1108

Ай бұрын

We read the book and watched the movie in school. I didn't pay attention though because I thought it was boring. Flash forward 20 or so years I watched it again and I loved it.

8:51 Malcolm McDowell nailed the role of Alex DeLarge in the film A Clockwork Orange! He really helped to make that another Stanley Kubrick classic!

I must of read Are You There God, it's me Margaret a hundred times when I was going through puberty.

That Meryl Streep is such a phony!

Are you there, Satan? It's me, Madison.

Me: I'm not a fan of reading. There's too many words, no pictures, and it takes too long. *authority figures ban books* Me: I LOVE READING!!!

I honestly wish I'd been able to read some of these in my 11th grade English class. I was instead subjected to the dystopian snore fest know as Feed.

Where did the bow and arrow originate?

We ❤ weird history!

Out of these, I only have read, "A Wrinkle in Time," which I found delightful. I attempted, "Lord of the Flies," which I found to be poorly written, and therefore, did not bother to finish.

Golden compass

4:46 The book Slaughterhouse-Five was part of a scene in the film Footloose (1984)!

@caronstout354

Ай бұрын

The film is as strange as the 📖

@btetschner

Ай бұрын

@@caronstout354 Interesting your last name is Stout. That is a recognizeable name in my area but I think this is the first time I have ever seen it outside that area.

To kill a Mockingbird should never be banned

1A is first for a reason. Its the most critical to a free society. Its there to protect the awful speech not just the kind stuff. People are ruined for "hate" speech. That does as much damage as book bans

I have to say, I feel like “Kite Runner” was a bit much to be required reading in schools… I don’t think it needs removed from a school library, but as others said, that leaves it as a choice. The sexual abuse of children in the book is reflective of the hard truth of reality, but I’m not sure it’s something kids should be required to read. Or maybe that’s because I first encountered it as a “required” book when I was working in a boarding school for kids who had emotional or developmental issues, a number of whom had a history of sexual abuse.