stranger in a strange land

[Gawdzilla]

I also got a teacher fired because of that book.

Screw the introduction thread, I want to hear more about this

And hi.

It's 1965. We have a brand new teacher in Lit class, right out of college. I can tell she's a feminist because of certain rants she makes in class. (At the time I didn't know what "feminist" meant, but that's the idea.) Anyway, book report time. We were supposed to write 2 pages on the book we'd read. I wrote seven pages on SiaSL. She reads this and asks if she can borrow my copy. I flat refused to let go of it, so she has to order a copy. (This is a wide-spot-in-the-road town in Indiana.) Didn't hear any more from her about it, but the next year, instead of Catcher in the Rye she assigns SiaSL. Problem is some of the parents read it. Or at least the back cover. They got up in arms because she'd assigned "such a dirty book". She wasn't there for the second semester that year.