Spent $60 on a censored book and it completely changed my view

I bought a copy of 'The Satanic Verses' online for about sixty bucks after hearing it was banned in a bunch of places. I just wanted to see what the fuss was about. Reading it, I realized the actual story was way more complex than the headlines made it seem. It made me think about who gets to decide what we can read and why. Has anyone else read a banned book that surprised them?

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josephs492mo ago

Sixty dollars for a book is a lot, but I get the curiosity. For me, reading "Fahrenheit 451" in school was the eye-opener. The whole plot is about burning books, but the story itself felt flat and preachy. It made the opposite point for me, that sometimes a book is just a book, not some deep key to thought control. I left it thinking the fuss over banning stuff gives some stories way more power than they actually have.

ray_morgan2mo ago

Banning books just makes kids want to read them more, honestly.

black.beth2mo ago

Actually, the point of "Fahrenheit 451" is that the people chose to stop reading, not the government. The book burning came after.