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★★★★★
Great book banned due those easily offended.
This is an incredible book about a young boy who is fishing. In this book, there is a man who tells this boy that he will never catch anything in McElligot’s Pool, as there is only trash in it. The young boy then fantasizes about what he could catch. The book ends with him telling the man what he thinks he can (or will) catch. Is this really worth banning? The closest thing to an “OfFeNsIvE iMaGe and/or OfFeNsIvE wOrD” in this is Eskimo. This is when the boy is describing an “Eskimo Fish” “North of the Hudson Bay.” That is it. That is “offensive.” This warrants a ban? I thought only the totalitarian dictators of the 20th century, like Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Josef Stalin banned and censored books. I guess not. In today’s society, all it takes is one person who spends all of their time trying to find offensive imagery in anything ( if they can’t enjoy it, why should anyone?) to cry about something, and it gets banned. That sounds exactly like the world of Fahrenheit 451! In that book if one person said something was offensive, it got banned! To all publishers, please bring back this wonderful book and stop bowing down to a few easily offended people who think everything is “OfFeNsIvE aNd RaCiSt” if they either don’t understand or enjoy something. In conclusion, this book is a must read, and if you can find it via free pdf files, download it and read it. You won’t be disappointed. Nothing wrong with this book.
