[The .303 bookworm]

Orcs

[Tattooed Hand]

I give them to thrift stores. I can't burn books. It's against my programming.

[The .303 bookworm]

Tattooed Hand;143305 said:

I give them to thrift stores. I can't burn books. It's against my programming.

Don't worry, I'm sure no one here would actually burn a book (Tis a metaphor).
Hell I'm not sure if I'd even burn "Mein Kampf" (I would however gladly piss on it then mock it as hatemongering filth before using it as an example of propganada, racism and the power of misusage of the written word)

[Valgard]

Well gookind does make useful kindling and also if you run out of toilet paper it definately has some added benefits (not to rough ) (it isn't like you could read the books or anything).

[councilor]

I would like to nominate the masses and masses of D&D books, as well as the dragonlance books. when the revolution comes, they will be banned by holy writ, and cast into the lakes of sulfur, brime or just fire, whichever is handy.

[Whelp]

councilor13;143683 said:

I would like to nominate the masses and masses of D&D books, as well as the dragonlance books. when the revolution comes, they will be banned by holy writ, and cast into the lakes of sulfur, brime or just fire, whichever is handy.

Don't be too critical - the original Dragonlance trilogy was readable enough, if you consider that they were written from PnP modules...
But 99% of the rest is crap.

[Grimlock]

I tortured myself through the first Goodkind book. After a year or two, I tried the second book. Two pages into it I returned it to the library...

[councilor]

yes, i also want to kick in the crown of stars series. i mean ye gods, what the hell impelled me to read all seven of those damn books? i swear, my curiosity will be death of me one day...

[Abyss]

Wingrove's Chung Kuo, books 7 and 8. Following the brilliance of Books 1-6, a study in author self-destruction. Mere burning wouldn't have satisfied me. I needed to burn them, then bake the ashes into bad cookies and give them to homeless people so that the books might be shat through drug and alcohol abused rectae back into the earth from which the trees which were sacrificed to produce them grew from and thus somewhat make amends on behalf of humanity for this afront to the universe.

I felt similarly about Lustbader's Ring of Five Dragons. Only i'm too lazy to bake.

Goodkind makes my eyes bleed, but he makes bestseller lists, so i blink my crimson agony in relative silence.

- Abyss, has no strong feelings on the subject, really.

[caladanbrood]

Hal Duncan's Vellum - Just so damn hard to read.

Oh, and Micheal Cobley's Shadowgods series. Kind of like Erikson, except truly awful.

[Darkwatch]

The Dragon Queen by Alice Borchardt (Wouldn't brun it, but would curse it to the depths to never rise again, where it has no name.)

Anything by Hélène Brodeur. I would burn the books, then burn the ashes, then burn the ashes ashes, then destroy whats left in Sulfo-chromic acid... Then shoot the acid into the sun. Collapse the sun into a black hole, then blow up the black hole.

[McLovin]

Lokivorous;143793 said:

Oh, and Micheal Cobley's Shadowgods series. Kind of like Erikson, except truly awful.

If it's truly awful, then it's not like Erikson. Shame on you!

*casts Storm of Negative Rep at Brood*

[Tsundoku]

Karsa Orlong;143042 said:

A book that i'd burn is Harlequin's Dance by Tom Arden. It's simply crap-tastic.

Amen. I tried so hard to read it after reading some kind reviews, but gave up halfway through. Actually manages to out-melodrama Janny Wurts and out-waffle Jordan and Donaldson. Utterly pointless drivel.

On the plus side I only spent $2 on it at a secondhand store, and held off getting the other 4 Orokon books.

Cheers,

La Sombra, dodged a whiny bullet

[Falco]

Wurts...eeeurrgh. Good addition to the burn pile. How many trees have died to allow that rubbish to be printed. Turgid, adolescent melodrama (thanks Sombra, great description).

[Aptorian hardass]

Earthsea eat fire??
She writes in a strange calm good way, definatly not eat fire..
Rather "choke at your words..."

But thats just an oppinion!

avete

[caladanbrood]

longhorn;143836 said:

If it's truly awful, then it's not like Erikson. Shame on you!

*casts Storm of Negative Rep at Brood*

Well, as in the same ideas... armies, empires, same kind of setting as MoI, PoVs from gods and soldiers, and not really anyone in between.

[McLovin]

All right, then...

*tries to cancel Storm of Negative Rep*

*Storm backfires and destroys Longhorn's rep instead*

[Tattooed Hand]

The .303 bookworm;143309 said:

Don't worry, I'm sure no one here would actually burn a book (Tis a metaphor).
Hell I'm not sure if I'd even burn "Mein Kampf" (I would however gladly piss on it then mock it as hatemongering filth before using it as an example of propganada, racism and the power of misusage of the written word)

Racist hate literature is valuable as teaching material, as long as you approach it critically. I have students read Lord Cromer (the incredibly racist colonial governor of egypt) alongside some of the current US administration's writings on Iraq to look for similarities in language, rhetorical devices and binary logic.

A book to be dumped for me is the boring useless variety. Mein Kampf is a useful book in so far as the ideas contained therein were the culmination of decades of European racism that resulted in one of the largest horrors of the 20th century. How this was made to seem reasonable to so many people must not be forgotten. In my opinion it needs to be taken very seriously. :folken:

[Tif the Barber Boy]

Tattooed Hand;144444 said:

Racist hate literature is valuable as teaching material, as long as you approach it critically. I have students read Lord Cromer (the incredibly racist colonial governor of egypt) alongside some of the current US administration's writings on Iraq to look for similarities in language, rhetorical devices and binary logic. :folken:

What? Lord "the empire is a career" Cromer? Well that is rather clever! A gentlemanly capitalist if ever there was one.

Here's a book to chuck in the trash: Niall Ferguson's 'Empire'!

How about a course in which students read Ferguson's 'Colossus' alongside Cromer's criticism of his opponents in Britain as "do-gooders who did not understand the realities of the exercise of imperial power". To top of the reading list, how about Balfour & Robert Kaplan?