Burn a book today!!!

DeVore

Ok, in the course of my Ulysses rant, I thought of a good topic.

If you could rid the world entirely of two books (I picked two because I want to destroy more then one) which would it be.

They cant be hate books (like the Nazi party manifesto) but Mein Campf would qualify.
Picking an entire author is acceptible too but only if EVERYTHING he wrote is to be burnt.

They have to be at least accepted as literature by someone somewhere and you should give a reason for why they should be incinerated.

My list would include:
Peg (Die you old bint! Its not literature, its dreadful toss.)

Ulysses (see other post)

The Bible (The world would be a better place without it)

Anything by L. Ron Hubbard if I could go back in time and stop the Scientologists forming.

I'm sure I'll think of others but right now it would be L. Ron and Ulysses.

Tom.

ps: I would *never* agree to burning books, but this is a theoretical question, not a call to arms

Paladin

The Bible eh? *nod nod*

Id say....
Grays Anatomy, (pure pornography there!)
and the quake2 manual (didnt you actually burn yours yet everybody? Cause u should!)

TwoShedsJackson

mmmm, Peig, i admit it was a **** book, but if some miserable Irish peasent wants to write out her life story, that's up to her. Mind you, what arrogance to assume, that people would want to hear her story as opposed to any other godforsaken peasent (of which there were millions) in Ireland at that time.

However, I must admit I enjoyed two bits in that book:

1) Peig's son falls off a cliff and dies. Can't remember what the **** he was doing up there, but hey, who cares!?!?!?

2) Townsfolk find an oil barrel on the beach. They light a match to see what is in the bottom of it. They get blown to bits. I laugh my hole off.

My Irish teacher thought I was mentally disturbed for finding that amusing. Wisha, I'll just smoke some more grass cos I'm so ****in poor I can't afford tobacco, oh bejaysus it's a hard life DIE YOU *****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DeVore

Pal, I wouldnt burn the bible for whats in it, nor what its trying to say. I really dont think of it as a book at all, but its hoards of mindless people who use it to justify just about any non-christian bigotry and injustice that bothers me.

Again, I'd want a time machine to go back and burn all the books that lead to brain dead fanaticism (I mean, why just pick the bible, theres the Koran and tons of other bigot-making justifications-cum-books). Some are fine I suppose but I say burn-em-all let god sort it out

DeV.

Manach

- Firstly I disagree with Devore's comments on the Bible.
If we sought to destroy all texts that led to division, as only one example one could suggested economic texts that infer that it is correct to exploit or liquidate people based on their level of wealth, ie "Wealth of Nations" or "Das Kapital". The subscription list could go on ad infinitum.


- On original topic, Hello Magazine. It's not literature, but the thought of a blaze fueled by photos of the Beckams et al ...

Yours - A miserable Irish Peasant who works with computers.

Draco

Anne Rices should be tied to a stake and her books used to burn her to dead. What a pile of whingy, soft-porn tripe.

Hard Times by Charles Dickens. A classic my hole. Full of weak willed, weak minded boring characters. The only vaguly interesting one was the complete ba$tard that watched his boss die and walked on. I did it for the leaving and nearly went mad.

Thank be ta fu<k I never had to read Peg. I heard she made it all up as well.

On a side note - DeV do you have nothing to do the last few days or what?

Draco

Excelsior

I can only think of an author, Thomas Hardy,
tess of the D'urbivilles
jude the obscure
and that travesty posing as literature,
Mayor Of Casterbridge.
The only books i can honestly say i didnt garner anything from, except an ulcer.

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It is so lonely here in my indecipherable tower of speech impedimency

WhiteWashMan

anything by the marque de sade
anything by patricia cornwell