The Dead Zone Banned!

**Moderator** · April 14th, 2009

It's been on my To Do list to ask Steve's permission for a while now.

**mprose** · April 14th, 2009

What are your opinions on the banning of The Dead Zone?

**mojomofo** · April 14th, 2009

Huh. I've always thought the Dead Zone is pretty tame.

Go figure.

**tillyn** · April 14th, 2009

I thought Dead Zone was some what tame, my self banning kids in school from reading it just seems stupid. Lord of the Flies was more disturbing than DZ.

**Lencho_of_the_Apes** · April 14th, 2009

It's the idea of assassinating a political figure that gets their panties in a wad. Combine that with the idea of questioning authority and you've got the very worst kind of communist-anarchist-satanist-conspiracy propaganda poisoning the minds of innocent young people. Have to ban that & protect the status quo.

We all float down here.

**the_last_gunslinger** · April 14th, 2009

Originally Posted by mojomofo

Huh. I've always thought the Dead Zone is pretty tame.

Go figure.

Yeah, I think it was pretty tame as well. But it dealt with an attempted political assassination, and despite whatever noble causes the protagonist had, there are a lot of people who think such a topic is taboo and should be avoided.

**Matthew.Degnan** · April 15th, 2009

What's so bad about The Dead Zone? If you ban The Dead Zone you migth AS WELL BAN ALL THE OTHER sk BOOKS AS WELL. (appologises for caps)

**Denise Marsden** · October 15th, 2009

I am surprised that this book has been in any way banned. Are we now in an age where Democracy means the banning of books because the governing Eilite feel that they are too inappropriate for us to read.?That is more frightening to me than anything in The Dead Zone.

**JRM** · October 15th, 2009

Originally Posted by mojomofo

Huh. I've always thought the Dead Zone is pretty tame.

Go figure.

That's EXACTLY what I thought!

Of all the SK books I've read, The Dead Zone felt the most tame. Though I also think it was banned because it dealt with Political assassination. That being said, I felt Stephen King was holding back on this one, lol.

**Denise Marsden** · October 16th, 2009

If the political assassination was the reason for the ban Im really confused, it was merely an attempt that failed. Maybe it was because the lunatic nature of the sure thing President was an issue those in power just cant have us considering.