Books You Want Horribly Destroyed.

[necromanzer52]

The boy in the striped pyjamas.
I had to read this for english class and it's quite possibly the worst book I've ever read in my life.

 

[The Axon Hillock]

Ugh. This thread was a disaster last time someone wrote it...

I guess if I HAD to choose one (I'm opposed to book burning) it would be Eragon. Reading that was like having someone personally insult my intelligence with each page turn.

 

[Hatchet90]

Burning books in itself is wrong. No matter what the idea, no matter how radical, no book should ever be burned. Because there's always some artistic value in any book. The book in itself gives one a picture of the way an author sees the world and the way the world was at the time of the author's writing. This is a horrible topic. Atheism is a religion.

... To be funny Fahrenheit 451

 

[Jack and Calumon]

All the books that say the world is flat. There are a few out there, and people still believe it.

Calumon: Why burn them? If you place the right, You have a house!

 

[Harlemura]

Pride and Prejudice.
So it can't be forced down the throat of another entire English class that doesn't give a crap about it.

I tell a lie, it wasn't the entire class that hated it. Maybe two people liked it, at most.
That's still 28 people having to trudge through months of that junk.

 

[Anggul]

In any situation I would normally say that burning a book is ridiculous, and go take a look at Hitler.

But well... Twilight should be removed from all of time and space. Burning just isn't enough to atone for it's crimes. It should never have occurred.

 

[onewheeled]

... To be funny Fahrenheit 451

Spoiler

As much as I'm against burning books and their ideas, I'd go with Mythology by Edith Hamilton. It was a requirement for freshman year of high school, and it was by far the most dull, excruciatingly long, pointless book I've ever read.

 

[ANImaniac89]

the "official" sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula
Dracula the Un-dead

I would like to take back what I have said, yes some book are stupid this is true but if you make it okay to destroy one book then you make it OK to destroy any book and despite what the so-called "Edgy" social rebels might say Religionists text are an important thing to the human mind. Even if you don't necessarily believe in God, most likely you still follow to some degree a base form of the morals they teach.

 

[Scout Tactical]

As I Lay Dying. The world doesn't need to know about the aquatic state of your mother, good sir.

 

[comet5002]

Seriously everyone who said the Bible? SERIOUSLY? Are we that immature and childish that we would say something like "let's burn the effin Bible durr hurr fart"

You're no better than the brilliant priest who decided that burning the Qur'an was a good idea.

It's also ironic that you all capitalized the word Bible, I must say.

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

This is honestly probably one of the most idiotic and ignorant things I've ever read in my entire life, and now I'm horribly frightened for the human race. You really think there wouldn't be conflict and war without religious TEXTS? First of all, as someone already said, religion can exist without texts depicting it. Second of all, if there wasn't religion, humanity would definitely find something else to shoot at each other for. Let's look at the Revolutionary War, hmm?

Sorry to go off topic, but these flame starters are asking for it. Religion is something that gives humanity something to hold onto and to have hope in. Sorry if I like to believe that life isn't a complete waste of time screwing people, wasting money, and getting drunk every week. Sorry if I like to believe that there's something waiting for me after I die instead of perpetual darkness for the rest of eternity.

I don't mean to be rude, I really don't, but really? It's ignorance like this that really ticks me off.

Back on topic, I don't think any book deserves to be burned. But I could certainly do without Twilight having ever existed.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

While I can't and won't advocate any sort of deliberate book burning.

I can't say I'd shed any tears if an electrical fire were to destroy an entire warehouse full of Glenn Beck books.

I don't know why there would be an entire warehouse dedicated to just his printed works but hey, this is my poorly thought out scenario.

 

[SovietX]

Twilight.
Bible.
/done

 

[Wintermoot]

the Twilight Saga because it birthed the world of the most insane fanbase ever

 

[Tourette]

I will also go with the Bible.

 

[The Stonker]

Twilight.
LET THEM BURN!

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Well I thought I'd be super original and say 'The Bible' because we could really do without that errr.....thing, but I guess I was beaten to it several times over. And I wouldn't necessarily say 'burned', more or less rather 'never have existed'.

EDIT:

Snip

Well now, someone is religious, aren't they?

 

[lumenadducere]

Hey, I actually liked Outliers. Gladwell's broader point is that everyone gets to where they are with major help from outside circumstances and there's really no such thing as a self-made man, but rather people who were fortunate enough to come across something meaningful and took advantage of it. His method to show it is with personal observation and a scant few statistics, so his work really can't be called scientific by any means. Nor does it really show any statistical data that's applicable on any larger scale whatsoever. So it really shouldn't be taken to be some kind of revolutionary text or anything, but it's still an entertaining read and it does give you something to think about. Plus it's interesting to see the stories of how some of the people he talks about actually came into their positions. You make it sound like he's relying on astrology or something.

And as general rule I'm against book burning but I'm going to have to agree with everyone who said Twilight. Crazy fad that tweens would probably have been better off never having gotten into.

 

[michael_ab]

Cathcer in the Rye, that book sucked like hell.

an ENTIRE book dedicated to some mentally ill douchebag complaining. and nothing else. this book would not be missed

 

[Nouw]

I don't hate any books, even if they're boring.