The Plot Thickens…Library Ransoms Funds
There’s a ransom to be paid to Garrett Fedorkiw at Nancy O’s, if you’d like to return To Kill A Mockingbird to the library’s shelves photo courtesy PG Library
Prince George, BC – It’s an adventure in fundraising as the Prince George Library challenges book lovers to ‘ante up’ and ensure a number of literary masterpieces remain accessible to all…
Gone from the shelves at the Bob Harkins and Nechako Branches are seven books that are prone to censorship and bans – hostages in a 7-day campaign marking national Freedom to Read Week.
The books will remain chained and locked at accomplice locations in the downtown core, until the ransoms have been paid. Caped crusaders looking to aid in rescue efforts, be advised:
- The Bible can be freed from CBC Radio for $700
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins can be found in the ‘district’ of Zoe’s Java House for $600
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling can have its soul restored from the Dementors at Ruins Board Shop for $500
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee can be released from lock up at Nancy O’s for $400
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman can be guided back to the library from Hummus Brothers for $300
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain can be spirited away from The Copper Pig for $200
- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson can be returned to its nesting grounds from Books & Company for $100
The kidnappers expect to issue updates on the status of the hostages throughout the week. All of the funds raised will go to library literary initiatives.
Comments
Nothing by Henry Miller, eh? Pitty!
Nah, leave The Bible out of the library. Or at the very least change the category from philosophy to comedy.
What a great idea for a fundraiser. I will have to stop by these places and do my part…
Sine Nomine on February 24 2013 6:36 AM
Nah, leave The Bible out of the library. Or at the very least change the category from philosophy to comedy.
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Put it in the war section.
The Bible is still the most bought and read book in the world.
Posted by: Give more on February 24 2013 9:49 AM
The Bible is still the most bought and read book in the world.
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As with any book, there is nothing wrong with reading it.
“The bible is still the most bought and read book in the world”.
I would have guessed that 50 shades of grey was the most bought and the Quran is the most read. I’m calling Vegas to get the odds.
If the Bible were authored today, the Old Testament part of it would likely be banned as hate literature.
“If the Bible were authored today, the Old Testament part of it would likely be banned as hate literature. “
You could say that about a lot of books that were written before political correctness.
“before political correctness”
Huh???? Which era and which ethnic/government version of political correctness are referring to JB?
If my guess is right, political correctness predates writing.
Yes, I suppose that’s right, Johnny. “Political correctness” is the version of history those in charge of policy want you to believe. So anything that might give you cause to think for yourself isn’t going to be encouraged. And when the ‘policy’ of both major political parties is exactly the same, and the only choice you get is which ‘method’ you’d prefer towards implementing it, and even the ‘method’ of choice is limited, it’s pretty hard to have anything that might question the ‘correctness’ of political correctness.
You folks who run down the Bible are an intolerant bunch and have probably never read it. Why do you have to ridicule it? Do you also ridicule philosophy books? You should really read and try to comprehend the New Testament.
I must enlighten you that Christians do not choose God; God chooses us. We don’t suddenly “find” God — he finds us. Once he finds you “all things become new”.
Tell us, traveller, if the good Book says God created Man in His own image and science were ever to prove that Man evolved from the apes, would that mean God was an ape?
But that’s Old Testament stuff, and your criticism is of our understanding of the New Testament.
So suppose you tell us how the NT doctrine of ‘salvation through Grace’ which superseded the previous OT doctrine of ‘salvation through Works’ through Christ’s lifting of the “curse of Adam” from the backs of Man is reconciled with St. Paul’s later dictum, “…let none among ye eat who has not first worked”.
Especially the way a great many so-called ‘Christians’ interpret that latter today, in a age of bountiful plenty, where a glut of food, and everything else, is the modern reality of “the curse of Adam”, i.e. ‘everyone’ working harder and longer for their ‘daily bread’. Instead of at the time of the 1st Century AD where the very real possibility of starvation stalked the land if everyone’s shoulder wasn’t harnessed to the plow.
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