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Posted on 10/2/25 at 6:20 pm to Shexter
I’m a conservative who started checking out King from my city library in the 7th grade. I’ve read and enjoyed most of his books even though I don’t agree with his politics.
Kings books have NO place in school libraries. There is a difference between school libraries and public libraries.
I mean he wrote a graphic sex scene involving 12 year olds, a cowboy who is the hero of the story raping a fat woman with a pistol, and a school shooter who is the hero of a story and earns his classmates respect after he shoots the teacher and takes the class hostage.
Kings books have NO place in school libraries. There is a difference between school libraries and public libraries.
I mean he wrote a graphic sex scene involving 12 year olds, a cowboy who is the hero of the story raping a fat woman with a pistol, and a school shooter who is the hero of a story and earns his classmates respect after he shoots the teacher and takes the class hostage.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 7:19 pm to LSUBoo
The judge, toadvine and the kid..
Posted on 10/2/25 at 7:49 pm to Shexter
I can’t remember Stephen King in my HS library much less elementary school. I know we were never assigned any of his books, and I don’t remember him ever being a part of our kids’ class work or homework. I think that would have stood out.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 7:57 pm to winkchance
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several of kings "books" were short stories I never heard of before. Others were deemed not age appropriate for certain grade. Clearly not a ban.:
Books such as Carrie and The Gunslinger are age restricted k-12. Not a ban. Cool. Why are you guys defending this? Why would you not want The Gunslinger available to high school readers in their school library?
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:08 pm to Napoleon
quote:pet sematary is his hardest work imo
I've read at least 20 of his books. So many are just way too long. But be can set up great stories he just is a bad finisher.
Dealing with loss and grief in life, id make the same decisions as the protagonist. If I thought there was a chance I couldn't trust myself.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:14 pm to Shexter
YOU ARE INCORRECT SHEXTER.
PHONICS IS (most banned nationally).
Cordially,
SAM, Max, and Sis
PHONICS IS (most banned nationally).
Cordially,
SAM, Max, and Sis
This post was edited on 10/2/25 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:30 pm to Jay Are
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Why would you not want The Gunslinger available to high school readers in their school library?
To save them from the pain of loving the series and being let down by the terrible last couple books when King writes himself into the story and drops the ball on his magnum opus.
Personally I read a ton of King in high school, but middle school me probably shouldn't have been able to. So there is a fair bit of King that's appropriate for 9-12 library but not k-12 library.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:31 pm to Jay Are
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Books such as Carrie and The Gunslinger are age restricted k-12. Not a ban. Cool. Why are you guys defending this? Why would you not want The Gunslinger available to high school readers in their school library?
What education purpose do they serve? I never once had an English teacher assign a reading by Stephen King or push him as some literary mastermind. Best selling doesn’t equate to books being written well enough to educate kids on writing.
Some school librarians started removing stuff they weren’t required to remove playing politics in reaction to enacted limits on leftist views of race and the evilness of white people and enacted limits on abusing kids by pushing trans propaganda and anti-science views on them.
Most elementary to high school libraries aren’t that large to begin with. The books are still available in public libraries and online.
I would bet many of the below issues were a leftist librarian or school administrator getting pissy about their trans and leftist racial politics (bad white people) being limited in school teachings. It happened in Texas, and the leftists running those schools or districts blamed the Texas law which removed their propaganda.
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In Florida, where more than 2,000 books were banned or restricted, a handful of counties were responsible for many of the King removals: Dozens were pulled last year as a part of a review for whether they were in compliance with state laws.
“His books are often removed from shelves when ‘adult’ titles or books with ‘sex content’ are targeted for removal — these prohibitions overwhelmingly ban LGBTQ+ content and books on race, racism, and people of color — but also affect titles like Stephen King’s books,” Meehan says. “Some districts — in being overly cautious or fearful of punishment — will sweep so wide they end up removing Stephen King from access, too.”
This post was edited on 10/2/25 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 10/2/25 at 8:33 pm to Shexter
He fricking wishes.
I love this little “explicit lyrics” label throwback to sell copy.
I love this little “explicit lyrics” label throwback to sell copy.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 9:12 pm to CitizenK
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Only someone who is psychotic can think up those novels
Or satanic
Posted on 10/2/25 at 9:37 pm to Shexter
I thought Mark Twain would be the most banned.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 11:01 pm to IAmNERD
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depictions of race
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banning books at school for letting the reader know the race of a character?
Try finding Huckleberry Finn in the school library
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been frequently challenged and removed from school curricula in various districts, though not officially banned nationwide, primarily due to its use of racial slurs. While initially banned for reasons like religious criticism and vulgarity, the modern focus of controversy centers on the use of the N-word, which some argue is offensive and creates an unwelcoming classroom environment
Posted on 10/2/25 at 11:11 pm to Jay Are
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Books such as Carrie and The Gunslinger are age restricted k-12
There’s not a world where Carrie is K-12.
Again, I think King is one of the great American authors of all time, nonetheless of the last century, but that’s malarkey.
I can disagree with his politics and think he sucks at endings but he’s an all time great. 90% of his works don’t belong in a HS library, however, they are worthy of their accolades. I’d say the same for Cormac McCarthy, Tom Clancy, and Hunter Thompson.
This post was edited on 10/2/25 at 11:20 pm
Posted on 10/2/25 at 11:47 pm to Shexter
What do you expect when you have11-12 year olds run a train on the only girl in the group in the book IT.
This post was edited on 10/2/25 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 10/2/25 at 11:50 pm to travelgamer
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teens
U sure?
I thought they were more like 11 or 12.
Posted on 10/2/25 at 11:54 pm to wackatimesthree
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I thought they were more like 11 or 12.
You are right I looked it up, it's been a long time since I read the book. I fixed it.
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:00 am to Jay Are
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Why would you not want The Gunslinger available to high school readers in their school library?
I think it's more incumbent upon you to make a case for why it should be.
Dos the academic value outweigh the multiple sexual encounters (including implied incest) and graphic sexual assault/violence of a woman having a gun shoved in her vagina?
I'm not sure it does. That Dark Tower series is o.k., but IMO it's far from King's best work, nor it is unique in style to his other work. So one could study his tendencies by reading something else he wrote that might have been a little less disturbing.
I'm not saying high school age kids would necessarily be traumatized by reading it, nor am I saying that they should be prevented from doing so, but the nuance that seems to be lost here is the distinction between a HS age kid reading it and a public school supplying it for him/her to read.
It may not be appropriate for the school to supply it even given the concessions I just made above. The two are different considerations.
Kind of like just because high school age kids are not too young to talk about sex, that doesn't mean it's appropriate for anyone in any setting to talk to high school kids about sex. If a 16 year old girl had questions and sought out the male gym teacher alone in his office to ask him about it, for example, that's probably not the time, place or person she ought to be conversing with on the matter.
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 12:11 am
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:12 am to wackatimesthree
Top 5 Sickest Stephen King Sex Scenes (NSFW)
5. Anal With a Handgun in The Stand
4. Electro-r*pe in Apt Pupil
3. Licking Semen-Stained Sheets in Dedication
2. The Incredibly Detailed Child R*pe in the Library Policeman
1. The Children’s Gangbang in It
He has a twisted mind and I don't know how his wife reconciles it, but hey if it works for them. That being said he can write some good horror.
Are these things school kids should be reading about, I would say 11 and 12th grade are OK since that's when I read them.
5. Anal With a Handgun in The Stand
4. Electro-r*pe in Apt Pupil
3. Licking Semen-Stained Sheets in Dedication
2. The Incredibly Detailed Child R*pe in the Library Policeman
1. The Children’s Gangbang in It
He has a twisted mind and I don't know how his wife reconciles it, but hey if it works for them. That being said he can write some good horror.
Are these things school kids should be reading about, I would say 11 and 12th grade are OK since that's when I read them.
This post was edited on 10/3/25 at 12:17 am
Posted on 10/3/25 at 12:23 am to travelgamer
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Are these things school kids should be reading about
Again, reading about them on their own is one thing.
The public school library supplying them is another.
I had only read #s 1 and 5 on that list.
Yeah, that dude is not quite right.
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