In these days of YouTube, TV and computer games, how do you make children want to read classic books? The answer is brilliantly devious. All that the school needs to do is to make up a list of banned books and let the kids do the rest. The best way to promote something is to ban it. One particular book list contained a fabulous selection including Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Mort, The Evolution of Man, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, The Picture of Dorian Grey. A stroke of sheer genius made the list look like it was chosen by an extreme right-wing creationist.
Students like to break rules so what happened was that one enterprising student set up their own secret lending library with 62 books so far (are there 451 on the list by any chance?). Students flocked to borrow a banned book.
Sadly, it seems to have been a hoax.
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