whats beginning to get my 'goat' is that in many school districts in the US, Mark Twain is an 'optional' book choice but at the same time the 'Colour Purple' is requried reading .
I'm sure if I had a teenage boy in school I would much prefer him reading a tale about a rafting trip down the Mississippi than a book about two women doing nasty things to each other , lots of time for him to find about stuff like that later on the internet .
Maybe one of our more 'progressive' /left wing/ politically correct Guardian reading Accy web users can tell us why they think a story of Black Lesbians should be more worthy than a young mans coming of age story.
To my thinking its no better and no worse than Treasure Island , which if I remember correctly featured a naive young lad , a cripple and a blind chap and lots of misuse of of alcohol ..."yo ho ho and a bottle of rum".
