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I wanted to avoid being negative, yet, I see this is a central store to promote government approved and censored books that should emphasize or at best not inte
by nedsma 10y ago
I wanted to avoid being negative, yet, I see this is a central store to promote government approved and censored books that should emphasize or at best not interfere with the governing ideology. Anything that could challenge the ruling system will not find its place in this book store.
The list of banned books in Iran includes Dante's Inferno and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
- dingo_bat 10y agoThis is commented upon in the linked article in detail. In my interpretation, the author shares your view.
- sriram_malhar 10y agoI approve of the ban on Dan Brown :) Geoffrey Pullum (a well-known linguist) had this hilarious review on the Language Log: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000844.h...