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50 Shades of King?

Nov 8, 2012

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9 November 2012

LITERATURE: Recently, a Stephen King book was banned from a high school library for a rape scene, but one brave student helped to overturn it.

By Isabel De La Garza, Senior Writer

After a parent complaint, Stephen King’s Different Seasons, a non-horror anthology of four novellas, was removed from library shelves at Rocklin High School for containing one rape scene. The book was reviewed by a board of adults and one student and subsequently voted by all the committee members (minus the student) to be banned. The adults, however, never read the book completely before banning it.

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