Yes oh my gosh I did!!!!!! I'll admit, it's not one of the true-to-the-book adaptations, and there are definitely more that one scene that could've gone way better, but my god!, it's more than enough to satiate my obsession with N&S

and Richard Armitage as Mr. Thornton???????? 🙈❤️

There is no way burning books will ever look like anything but a bunch of nazis dancing around. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Burning it just makes you look like a dangerous imbecile, full stop. (Doubly so if you bought it, and then burnt it.)

1984 gives you all the reasons you need to know on why you shouldn’t ban books, it’s better to teach why those ideologies are wrong and learn to read critically

The Enemy Unmasked or The Secret Terrorists by Bill Hughes.

I would burn the Bible. Happily.

Every religious text ever written would be also be gladly sacrificed.

Fuck this infantile morality of 'burning books is kinda wrong'.

The Bell Curve

No shit?

I don’t believe in book banning as an idea and would rather see labels slapped on things with historical or social context where needed and I support keeping genuinely harmful things in places where (for example) kids can’t get them or where marginalized groups don’t have to see them openly.

But if I was put on the spot and had to pick one book then it would be one that we had in our local library that basically described de-transitioning trans kids. Not naming it because fuck that book. I read it and cried. It is being checked out by people intending to abuse children.

There is a copy that can only be read when exposed to open flame.

I held onto an awful book for years because I couldn't bring myself to burn it but it was so bad I didn't want anyone else to pick it up and mistakenly think it was going to be an OK read. Eventually I threw it in the rubbish.

There're been a few I considered writing on the front page 'this book was one of the most boeing/annoying/shallow... things I've ever read hut I can't bring myself to throw it out, so here it is, still existing. I suggest you don't read it.'

Fahrenheit 451

No.

The idea of book burnings makes me feel physically ill. There's a long history of regimes burning books and celebrating while doing it.

No, but I would be delighted to see a copy or two of anything by Ayn Rand go up in smoke.

None, but if something must be said, any religion book in which is written to hate another religion.

No, for two reasons:

1. I feel like I should have at least read a given book before advocating for its destruction, and I've avoided all the really controversial/gross stuff out there. I've read stuff I disagreed with, but nothing so offensive that I feel it's unfit for consumption.
2. I'm fundamentally against book burning as a concept. Everyone should have the right to freedom of the press, not only because censorship pretty quickly becomes a slippery slope, but also because people don't stop having vile ideas just because they're restricted from publishing them. All restrictions do is fan the flames of a persecution complex (justified or otherwise) and hide the discussion from the rest of society.

I've thrown out bad books rather than donate them. Usually they have to be both badly written and unethical, but in the last few years, a new category had shown up, the amateur and completely unedited novel. They're even showing up in the library! Misspellings on every page, an author with no ability or knowledge of language, poorly printed, and a complete lack of editorial handling.

This is the only book I've like read thrice from back when I was a child until now and still forget what the ending was. Although, I remember how it felt reading it.

If you plan to actually read them, don’t bother getting first editions.
If you’re more frugal, put your list into ThriftBooks.com or similar and buy them over time as cheap, good condition copies pop up. It sounds like you’re not pressed for time, so I’d suggest doing this

I found it started out promising but the sum of the story just didn’t quite add up. Of course she falls in love with the other “ Main character” and gets over her trauma with the first therapist. Predictable and not a lot of substance imo.

This book was very ho hum to me.

I’ve read so many like it before that I was just bored by it all.

It wasn’t bad but it just seemed unoriginal to me.

You don't want to see my to-be-read piles. There are currently 11, and some of them are nearly as tall as me.

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved - a long article/essay and absolutely inspired

>Don Quixote fighting windmills, Dr. Jekyll being Mr. Hyde, Beowolf killing Grendel, the ending of Moby Dick, Dracula being a vampire

Maybe chuck up a spoiler warning next time smh

Half the time when I see there are forewords or introductions I get super excited to read the book. They're often a key part of my enjoyment of classics and other well regarded works.

I don't see any issue with you buying the 35 at once, if it's like the one big buy a year that's fine. It it really depends on the book as I would try to get the special edition when buying one at a time as a way to pace myself