I understand what you are saying, I haven't myself read the book in question, but I've read two of the three others that were listed as being banned, Of Mice and Men, which I did for my GCSE, and Lord of the Flies, which I read because I was bored.
Both of these books are increadibly powerful in their own ways, also on this list not of banned books (but is in some other places) but then there are books that have been... ahem sanitised and, include books such as to kill a mocking bird, and by sanitised, I mean the book has been altered from its original form to avoid parts that someone somewhere found upsetting. I've read PDF's of these sanitised books, and they are a travesty, whats left is meaningless dribble.
You want to know why Of Mice and Men was banned? Because it described the segrigation of a black man in the USA (which is also where to kill a mocking bird fell foul and had bits edited out so it wasn't apparent what colour the defendant was).
The problem with book banning is that someone somewhere, for whatever reason will demand any book ever writtens banning because of something or other, to me its just a slipperly slope that society should not go down.
By all accounts, those that had objections to the books use of profanity had the option of reading something else that didn't... Something that the principle lied in a public forum about.
