Thread: Book Burning!

I figured the title of this thread would catch most users' attention. I'll probably be demanded to leave the site for suggesting this, but I wanted to pose the question: If you attended a book burning, which books would you toss in?

Here's mine:

Silas Marner. I absolutely hated reading this book. The way it is written and the huge vocabulary make the book very, very difficult to read. But I did like the story about half-way through it.

The Scarlet Letter. Very boring to me. I cannot imagine or even begin to relate to the Puritan way of life. Another book I had difficulty reading and staying the least bit interested in.

Waiting for Godot. The worst, stupidest, most pointless, idiotic book, play, anything I have ever read in my entire life. Enough said.

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Very wierd.

There are a lot more, but these are the only ones that come to mind right now.

Originally Posted by tbs21

I figured the title of this thread would catch most users' attention. I'll probably be demanded to leave the site for suggesting this, but I wanted to pose the question: If you attended a book burning, which books would you toss in?

You must miss Middle Ages.

Anyway, it's your choice and I think there is nothing to worry about as long as you are not a government's official or in a powerful position of any kind.

In fact, I hope you're nobody trying to catch some attention. (No offence intended here).

I wouldn't, but I'd happily execute anyone who did. Burning books is the most moronic concept since the dark-ages. It's like standing up to be counted when ignorance is being passed out.

But with mindless opinion like this:

Originally Posted by tbs21

I've never even read them and I hate them.

what the hell can we expect.

Much offence intended.

I had to do North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell for A Levels. Afterwards I really did burn my copy. It gave me a great deal of pleasure. Then at university I had to read the damn thing again

Originally Posted by Dr. Malone

The Bible.

The Bible is full of beautiful language. You throw that in the fire and you should go in too.

Originally Posted by quarterscot

I had to do North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell for A Levels. Afterwards I really did burn my copy. It gave me a great deal of pleasure. Then at university I had to read the damn thing again

So you proved yourself to be a moron twice?

Happy Potter.

No wait. They did that and then everyone read it to see what the hubbub was about (talk about a super marketing scheme!), and that was when it really took off... and with it came the movies and the big money and... (Relax. I'm using HP as an example only. Sheesh, folks.)

I wouldn't burn any books. If I don't like 'em, I just don't finish reading 'em and don't recommend 'em.

Originally Posted by Dr. Malone

The Bible.

It starts off slow, but it picks up around the middle. Parts of it are boring. I haven't gotten through the whole thing yet, but I hear that the second half of the book renders the first half completely irrelevant. Something about a vagrant mystic and new wine.

The fact that anybody would burn a book on the grounds of "witchcraft" is pretty sick considering what the crime of witchcraft actually was and the disgusting measures implemented in order to punish those "guilty". Not many people know that witchcraft was essentially a thought crime and had little to do with sorcery or divination.