I am urging each of you to respond to this letter in your own words. Please respond with a letter to the editor of your own. Let them know how you feel about library censorship. Coincidentally, a neighbor told me about an audio cassette he checked out at a Peachtree Corners library. I discovered that the system owns about 13 copies of the book and 15 copies of the book on tape.
Books can enrich a society.
But as the tragedy in Paducah illustrates, books and movies of a violent nature in the hands of a maladjusted individual can be deadly. The Paducah shootings could have been at one of our high schools. Judy Craft, co-founder of the Gwinnett chapter of Citizens for Family Friendly Libraries. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City-playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure.