Books You Want Horribly Destroyed.

[Talshere]

What do people have with Twilight?

Let girls enjoy their girl porn, they let you enjoy yours!

The writing style is bad, the characters lack any sort of depth of personality or emotion. The story and setting is similarly shallow and cliché as fuck. It destroys all plot and back story as "vampires" go, and fail to even make it a "good" alternative vampire background. The twilight vampires and actual vampire share pretty much nothing but name. The fan-service is terrible if that's what its trying to be.

You have a 1 dimensional plot, with 1 dimensional characters. There is NOTHING to like about this series! No genuine reader of any level could POSSIBLE read one and think anything but "what utter fuckin drivel is this?". Its worse than Harry Potter FFS. That shouldnt even be POSSIBLE!

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

None of them. I don't care if I disagree with them. I don't care if I hate them. The people who made them have a right to state their opinions.

"...goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!" -Henry Jones Senior [http://wavs.unclebubby.com/wav/MOVIES/Indiana_jones/Crusade/gsmorons.wav]

 

[Quite Interesting]

I realise that many people believe burning a book to be fundamentally wrong, and in most cases I would agree. However, my grandmother owns a very old copy of mein kampf which she was given as a gift, and I am the most likely to inherit her books when she passes on. Hopefully that won't be for a long time, but whenever I see that book I always get an urge against my better judgement to just destroy the thing, it makes me uncomfortable to see it on her shelf. So if I were to burn any book, it'd probably be that.

 

[Julianking93]

Catcher in the Rye. I don't get why everyone seems to love it so much.

I'd get rid of it just so I don't have to hear pretentious assholes go on and on about how Holden was supposedly some deep and intellectual character.

 

[Sir_Tor]

None, no books should be burned no matter what.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

So what books do you want thrown on the burning pile?

None. No matter how bad the book or evil/stupid the author, I would never advocate the burning of any book. To destroy ideas for any reason is fundamentally wrong. If you dislike a book, write a critical review or satirize it, but don't burn it. You don't kill someone because they have a different opinion that you.

But what if it's a book advocating the destruction of books? The irony is too much to resist!

 

[Julianking93]

I totally agree with the God Delusion. I'm an atheist, but I can't stand Richard Dawkins and the awful pieces of elitism he calls books. The guy has about three, all of which can be summed up with the phrase 'OMGUPEOPLESTUPID.' He keeps talking about a world without religion being free, but if there was total freedom people would be allowed to believe in what they want, and put their faith where they please.

....Fargo....goddamn it. Once again we agree on something to the letter...

Yes, now that I remember after reading this post, The God Delusion. Despite being an atheist, I can't stand Dawkins. He's such an elitist prick that it gives atheist a bad name. He's really no better than religious extremists.

 

[Yosato]

TWILIGHT! But since that's probably about 150 posts of the 250 on this thread I'll try and come up with something original.

Brick Lane because it is overrated and I had to analyse the crap out of it for a tedious few months. Also anything by Carol Anne Duffy, because she just chats shit.

 

[rabidmidget]

Heart of darkness, I like the themes and ideas in the book, but IT IS SO SLOW PACED.

 

[guyroxorz]

Twilight goes without saying, at least i hope it goes without saying!
Harry potter (don't flame me, i just think JKs idea of literate writing need a serious looking at)
Lord of the flies, did it about 4 different times with school and while it is an incredible novel i never want to see it again

 

[craddoke]

I have never hated a book - even the most awful, trite, piece of garbage, only in the syllabus to check off a box, required reading, bullshit. And I'm saying this as someone who can't begin to count how many books I've read, spent over a decade earning a PhD in English literature, and currently has several thousand on shelves around my house.

Some books have annoyed me, of course. That has more to do with them being praised in excess of their value - not really the book's fault, of course.

 

[craddoke]

I can't stand Dawkins. He's such an elitist prick that it gives atheist a bad name. He's really no better than religious extremists.

You should take a look at his speech during the Pope's recent visit to England (it's on YouTube somewhere). In my opinion, a man who can so eloquently dismantle the lies of religious dogmatism is allowed to be a prick on occasion - and I take issue with the elitist part. My read is that he believes people are too good to allow themselves to believe the crap religions spoon-feed them.

 

[The Stonker]

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

Same here, It's just I'm ashamed that we have books like Twilight on the market and that their more popular then Oscar Wilde.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

Of Mice and Men
THE F-U-C-K-I-N-G Giver
worst fucking books ever.
Of Mice and Men is boring
And The Giver is so fucking un-interst.......I can't even find the words since i used boring on Of Mice and Men and that book is SO much better then The Giver.
OH one more, The Pearl. It sucks
(hopefully this isn't flaming, it's not my intention)

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

I don't believe in destroying books.
You, as a human, have a right to pursue entertainment/knowledge/pleasure how you please, so long as it doesn't harm anyone else in the process.
Even if that means allowing books like Twilight to exist.

If we start destroying one book, where does it end?

 

[astrav1]

A tree grows in Brooklyn.

 

[Gotham Soul]

I've hated most of the required reading I've had to do in high school, and I still hate them now. To Kill A Mockingbird, House on Mango Street, All Quiet on the Western Front...I mostly read books for entertainment, and trying to slog through these pieces were like trying to eat a bucket of wallpaper paste with a pair of chopsticks.

I don't really have a problem with depth and deep human themes and all that (besides the fact that usually the way they're conveyed is boring as all hell) but still, take any of these books and stick the nose of a dolphin between the pages and said dolphin will drown within a second.

 

[Sieg Firebrand]

All LOTR books. Have you actually read them. Even without the severe pacing issues, there's just so much boring BS in them

 

[shadyh8er]

Naked Lunch. That book is only famous for being vulgar at the right time (1950's). It has no plot and is just a list of grotesque actions and events. How the Supreme Court ruled that it was "culturally significant" is beyond me.