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Grendel (Vintage)
by John Gardner | Literature & Fiction
Registered by SheWhoReads of Athens, Georgia USA on Friday, August 19, 2005
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Journal Entry 1 by SheWhoReads from Athens, Georgia USA on Friday, August 19, 2005

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Reserved for the Banned Books Month Challenge.

Ranked #40 on the list of The Most Frequently Banned Books of the 1990s.

According to Forbidden Library, the book was "[m]ost recently challenged, but retained, on high school reading lists in Douglas, Colo. (1997). Parents, who have obviously never read Beowulf, compained that the novel was too obscene and violent for high school students." 

Journal Entry 2 by SheWhoReads from Athens, Georgia USA on Friday, August 19, 2005

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Pre-numbered label used for registration.

From the back cover:

The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in a book William Gass called "one of the finest of our contempory fictions." 

Journal Entry 3 by SheWhoReads at Public Library on Baxter St. in Athens, Georgia USA on Thursday, September 01, 2005

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Released 6 yrs ago (9/1/2005 UTC) at Public Library on Baxter St. in Athens, Georgia USA

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I left this book on a bench on the outside of the library. It's on the bench closest to the parking lot. 



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