Speaking of Which...

Doesn't forbidding something only make the desire to have it, read it or do it stronger? I mean generally rebellion is frowned upon but rebellion in the sense of reading a banned book adds excitement to ones life as the person is reading to see just how much the book pushes the boundaries or for what reason it was banned. That makes a lot of sense doesn't it? With that said wouldn't an average observe be right (or not too far off) to say that banning, censoring, or challenging a book has the potential of making book sales skyrocket? Now I'm not one big on conspiracy theories and seeing as how I'm a writer myself I'd hate to implicate that a writer was writing a very provocative book simply for the hope of being banned, etc and then having high book sales. As a logical thinker as well that just doesn't make sense (but we all know people don't always use logic) because writing a novel is so exhausting, it takes too much out of you to be simply done for profit gain. You have to enjoy the process and then obviously the books are filled with beautiful content and excellent writing skills as they all get on the "NY Times best-seller list" or win Newberry medals. That theory is just too far fetched for my tastes.

I'm simply following up on my first post with something I thought of in relation to a book being banned.

&& that's all for now.
--lexy.