Vent: I just found out a book I read in high school is illegal in Turkey

I was looking up old school stuff online last night and saw a list of banned books from different places. The book 'The Satanic Verses' by Salman Rushdie is banned in Turkey, and has been since 1989. I read it for a class project back then and just thought it was a weird story. Seeing it on that list made me realize how a whole country's government can decide what ideas people are allowed to see. Has anyone else found out something normal from their past is banned somewhere else?

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campbell.evan13d agoMost Upvoted

Wait, wasn't that book banned in a few other countries too? It's not just Turkey.

ericp6713d ago

Honestly yeah, that book got banned in a bunch of places. Tbh it's wild to think about. I had the same feeling finding out "The Anarchist Cookbook" is totally illegal in Australia. We passed around a beat up copy in college like it was no big deal, just dumb kids being curious. Makes you realize how different a normal thing can be just a few time zones away.