So, you want to burn a stack of objectionable books!
May 6, 2023
One of the funniest autobiographies about sex is “My Life and Loves” by Frank Harris, which was first printed in 1922.
It probably was banned for a while.
A bunch of us pals read it in 1965. It was great fun.
Never been big on banning books.
There are exceptions - child pornography for sure.
I remember as a kid learning about Nazi Germany banning and burning book.
Maybe I was in the sixth grade in 1955 when our nun, using a film reel, showed the Germans tossing books into a big heap, already on fire around 1936.
It appeared to be a mob of morons, which is not inclusive to the Nazis...
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