A bit of strange history

Okay, I am kind of watching the political crap going on and just wondering what the hell am i doing watching this? I'm kind of the person who is not really interested and want to keep writing, but here I am staring at it and dreading Trump winning if he does, here is the first fear....once again the Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror Genera of books are always put on the hack..I mean seriously, if you look at history of the generas you are looking at a horrible history of banned books in general.

Let's see, my first example is Lord of the Rings...yup, it was banned for almost the same reason Harry Potter was banned in some states. Then again...one of my biggest protests was when I was living in Austin TX, at least in 1999, I had to deal with a library who positively did not like me requesting books like The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, which was actually required reading in my US History class in Middle School, can you image it still banned in some states? I asked why I had to pay $1.50 for having it brought to the library and the fact is I didn't understand because interlibrary loans were free in Colorado, but of course the liberarian was ignoring me stating it was a questionable book. Questionable? Ozama of OZ is questionable? My dad and I were furious and thought it was outrageous...first off, Austin TX especially the Cedar Park area is highly religious and sometimes even judging of people like myself who were not interested in reading a bunch of really religious or even romance novels.

Finally the decision was to just join a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Book Club, which I just had to fill out an order form once a month and pay maybe $20 a month and get whatever I wanted. I think that was highly more entertaining than going to a library that otherwise did not want to cater to fans of a specific area.

I have to say though, I still don't get how Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror are the most banned books in the history of the US. Honestly, it is like stupid as can be to be sitting in a library and realizing that all the books that I enjoy are basically the kind of books that most likely get criticized the most...