But after the Statesman reviewed five years' worth of publications — about 5,000 titles — whose rejections were appealed by inmates to the agency's headquarters in Huntsville and obtained through open records requests, one thing is clear: Texas prisoners are missing out on some fine reading.

Novels by National Book Award winners Pete Dexter, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx and William T. Vollmann have been banned in recent years. Award finalists Katherine Dunn and Barry Hannah are on the Texas no-read list, too, as are Pulitzer Prize winners Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren and John Updike.

Prisoners can't peruse certain books by Pablo Neruda and Andre Gide, both Nobel laureates. "Krik? Krak!" by Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat, who last year won a MacArthur "genius" grant, is prohibited behind Lone Star bars. Books of paintings by some of the world's greatest artists — da Vinci, Picasso, Botticelli, Michelangelo — have been ordered out of state correctional facilities.

http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-...at-203986.html

The Art Of Neckbeard

are you a ninja in your dreams?

I've read enough of it, and it's pretty obvious that's what it is.

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lol @ the book enabling sociopaths. Whatever guy.

Based on the following statement alone, I'd say you haven't read any of it.

And this part...Well, like Sly said, that's not what the book is about.

Dude it's just not that complicated.
It's a bathroom dump read like most of those so called "self help" dime store pubs.

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Your severe hatred for a book is funny, but it's honestly only causing more attention to it here.

Edit: lol and your post in the other thread(s) just makes me think you're the only sociopath in here..

You are all sociopathic sheep.

I have not read the book.

It's another "self-help" piece of garbage.

That's like saying that the person who originally taught the drivers ed class that the getaway driver for a bank robbery is responsible for what they did.