Ironically Banned Books

I have covered a few of these before, but I want to get into the sheer irony of their banned status.  A large part of this problem can be attributed to the theory (courtesy of my 11th-grade English teacher) that most people who are against these books have never even read them.  That’s like saying [...]

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury Paperback, $10 Ballantine 1950 179 pages I don’t know how I managed to graduate high school without having read this book.  But, as everyone knows, it’s a classic–and for good reason.  In Bradbury’s futuristic Orwellian world, fireman like Guy Montag are in charge of starting fires, which are used to burn illegal books.  [...]