Books You Want Horribly Destroyed.
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Normally, I'm against the practice of burning books. When my friend's uber ***** sister in law left her copy of "Twilight" at his house, however, we simply had to. It actually burned quite nicely. Afterwards we lit cigarettes from its burning corpse and drunk to its demise. That was a fun night.
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The entire Twilight Series.
If I Did, This is How I Would Have Done it, by OJ.
Video Games Suck, by Ebert (I wouldn't have a problem with it if he had actually played some fucking games)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by... someone (boring as hell, full of cliches -which were cliches even by the time it was written)
The entire Twilight Series.
If I Did, This is How I Would Have Done it, by OJ.
Video Games Suck, by Ebert (I wouldn't have a problem with it if he had actually played some fucking games)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by... someone (boring as hell, full of cliches -which were cliches even by the time it was written)
My God, someone else had to read that awful book? Which turned you off more, the terribly written sex scenes or the doctor's fascination with a corpse's penis in the morgue?strum4h said:
'Life of Pi' i want my senior year of high school back i was like angry face to hear that it was might be getting a movie
catcher in the rye. Absolutely horrible book almost tore it in half when I was done reading in school. Don't remember why I didn't. I was surprised to find it in 1 piece, and was about to but my little sister needs it now. I'll tear it up and burn it later.
Any books that are a part of the Twilight series and a couple other less notable "books" Stephenie Meyer has written. Paper thin characters, generic setting, making their vampiric AND werewolf lore dull, the Twilight series deserves to burn for these reasons.
There's some quote that goes something like this (paraphrasing since I can't find the quote anywhere).
"Destroying a book is worse than killing a man. A man only contains ideas, while a book is the source of ideas."
While I don't agree that killing a man is actually worse than destroying a book, I'm going to assume hyperbole was used. Simply put, from books come knowledge. Knowledge can also come from man, but it will often come with more and more objectivity as the knowledge is passed down. With books, you can have the original ideas, on paper, for anyone to access.
Never destroy a book, no matter how vile you find it.
"Destroying a book is worse than killing a man. A man only contains ideas, while a book is the source of ideas."
While I don't agree that killing a man is actually worse than destroying a book, I'm going to assume hyperbole was used. Simply put, from books come knowledge. Knowledge can also come from man, but it will often come with more and more objectivity as the knowledge is passed down. With books, you can have the original ideas, on paper, for anyone to access.
Never destroy a book, no matter how vile you find it.
The only book I would destroy would be Catcher in the Rye. It's very hard, upon reading the book to see why it is listed among some of the greatest books of all time. Its main problem is Holden. It is very hard to feel an sympathy for him as every page turn you see him digging a bigger and bigger hole for himself. By the end of the novel it seemed he would need a crane to get out of there. All I get from him is, "Wah, everyone hates me, why do they do that, wah, why can't people just like me' and then, 'This people are all phonys, I hate them all, I'm going to go live in the wilderness and pretend to be deaf and mute'. Then there's him and sex. It is clear that he isn't ready so what does he do, call up an easy girl, or talk to a pimp. The deeper meaning everyone talks about is there, you just can't get to it because you can hardly feel for Holden. Fuck it.
As for bad books, I couldn't care less about them. Its just bad books that are considered great literature.
As for bad books, I couldn't care less about them. Its just bad books that are considered great literature.
Hey, can you tell me what #3 is. I saw a copy of it in the class and was wondering what it was all about.UntrodTripod said:
As an English major, I don't want to actually burn any books. However, I wish Frankenstein would go away forever. Seriously the worst book I've ever read. Wonderful idea, but horrible execution. Mary Shelley should have never picked up a pen. Should have just been the woman in the love sandwich that was Lord Byron and Percy Shelley.
That was a very odd sentence to type...
That was a very odd sentence to type...
This sentiment has clearly been covered in this thread, but I feel I must restate:
Fuck that. Every book is worth its existence, if only as a recollection of the soul that wrote it. I'd sooner give away all my worldly possessions and start from scratch than to allow even Twilight to disappear from the world entirely.
Fuck that. Every book is worth its existence, if only as a recollection of the soul that wrote it. I'd sooner give away all my worldly possessions and start from scratch than to allow even Twilight to disappear from the world entirely.
Ya some are anarchists but the main groups like alqueda (or however you spell that) are the one's who are dying so that their god will give them many virgins when they go to heaven. I'm not saying religion is all bad but I'm certain our world would be more peaceful without it. Mutually assured destruction kind of makes sure there won't be a WWIII. That leaves only the war against people who don't care if they die (terrorists).FeralCentaur said: