Huh...

[shipperx]

Anyone know what that might be? I don't remember anything particularly explicit in Neverwhere. Some scary bits, but there are scary bits in a LOT of YA fiction. I certainly don't remember anything as scary in Neverwhere as having MAIN CHARACTERS' heads cut off and carried around on other characters belts as happened in the sequel to the Mutiny on the Bounty, as I was required to read (and was traumatized by) in school. And could anything be more depressing than the ending of 1984 (which was also required reading)?

From EW.com:

A New Mexico school district temporarily removed Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere from library shelves after a local mother complained the book — which is required reading at the high school — had mature content. [KASA Fox]

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

The only thing that comes to mind is that one or two characters are hinted - only hinted, mind - to be gay. That might just be enough in some people's mind... :/

Either that, or the way it treats religion.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Either that, or the way it treats religion

Good Omens must make people's heads explode then.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

This was all over Gaiman's twitter timeline, and it's been established that the complaining mother is "that sort of parent" (she brought TV news cameras with her to the school when she demanded that the book be removed from the reading list) and that the school librarian and many parents were fighting against the stupidity. Unfortunately, it seems that the school administration has no cojones and the last thing I read about this is that they've continued to capitulate to this idiotic woman.

The complaining mother also said, rather proudly, that she "didn't have time to read a 400-page book because that's the school's responsibility" but that she "knew it was inappropriate for teens."

A few disgusted students from the school read it anyway and stated that they didn't know what all the fuss is about. The crusading mother is obviously a famewhore and a self-proclaimed arbiter of all that is good, moral and holy. Stupid situation all around.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

I read the book (ages ago) and my response was --blankface...??? "Was there something I'm totally forgetting in the book...???" Because I honestly remembered nothing offensive. The book seemed quite PG to me.