I've read most of these books, and now that I've matured a bit I can see a point as to why attempts would be made to discourage youth from reading them. At the time that I read them, I thought that they were works of literature, but now I question that; I believed that they were literature because that what I was led to believe. I've read much better written works that would never be considered "literature" by the literary crowd. In order to be considered "literature" it seems that the work needs to have negative and corrupting elements that cause the reader to foster a self-defeating, self-destructive, pessimistic, and depraved Weltanschauung. Yes, I hesitated a bit before including "depraved" because it is a bit archaic, but in truth that does seem the appropriate word. We now live in a highly sexualized society, and it should come as no surprise since many people were self-propagandized by reading these so-called works of "literature". And now we are suffering the consequences as our society is clearly in decline.