It’s going to be fun and some one is going to compliment your top. Just talk about what you liked & disliked. Was there and symbolism? The book clubs I’ve been to usually involved a lot of wine.

Nope, at least not in the way you mean. I have read books that were bad enough that I wanted to see my copy burned but I hate being wasteful so I put them in the little free library instead.

I’ve definitely never wanted to erase the entire existence of a book though.

Book sales at libraries

Ooh this is something. I was actually considering next Wives and Daughters as I've read somewhere that it's good. Think it's worth to read?

The bible, kuran, etc. All these “books” are the cause of most of human suffering. Joking (not totally). I would never burn a book

https://electricliterature.com/buy-a-copy-of-fahrenheit-451-that-can-only-be-read-if-its-on-fire/

Orcs was so bad I'd consider it, purely to save others from spending the money and wasting 10 minutes of their life. I bought it for $1, and that was too much.

The concept seemed cool, but who thought it was a good idea to have the prose come from the perspective of an orc as well?

There's a couple of books that intend to subvert history and give their readers a false interpretation of facts (that almost certainly stuck with them) in order to push their flimsy plot along, but I wouldn't ban them. But that's the closest I can think of damaging literature, besides the obvious of pushing certain agendas, which authors are entitled to do.

I recently read it and loved it. I remember thinking in chapter 2 that Stephen just needs to jack off and his problems would be lessened.

Then chapter 3 happened and i was laughing so hard.

Also loved the day of dappled seaborn clouds on the jetty

I hear you all saying never burn a book, but I don't think any of you have ever had the misfortune of reading All He'll Ever Be.

I give OP the benefit of the doubt in assuming they didn’t mean burning books for real, because that sounds rather metaphorical.

That said, when it comes to literature, what’s one’s favorite could be others’ disdain. And if people begin to trash what they didn’t like, libraries would be empty!

She's my Victorian comfort read. Cranford is a delight, as are her shorter fiction.

Her novels have been hit or miss, with North & South and Mary Barton in the hits category, and Wives & Daughters and Sylvia's Lovers in the miss.

Unlike Charlotte Bronte, though, who had a tendency to shoot above her intelectual weight, and Dickens, to a large extent, who got mired in the melodrama of his stories, I found Gaskell to be a very grounded writer, a rarity among the Victorians.

All the books.

No. Reading ideas you disagree with is important to develop intellectually. People who don’t understand that you don’t have to agree with everything you read need better critical reading skills

Oh, I chuck all of that into the recycling. It could be reincarnated as toilet paper 😂

Ah, but I don't mind the Bible, at all.

I agree that no book should be burned. If you don't like the topic, the author, plot; etc...just don't read it.

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I mean, universally, every copy? No.

But I personally burn just about every copy of some cult's indoctrination that gets handed to me by a recruiting cultist. I'm up to about a dozen bibles, a couple book of mormon, three bhagavad gita, and a shitload of tracts, fliers, pamphlets, prayer books, etc.

I don't believe in banning books, but destroying individual copies u don't want to put back out there is fine. There's probably better ways to do it than burning

I have several I'd like to burn out of my memory - does that count?

Serious answer: none. While there are valid debates as to when it's proper to introduce such books in a pedagogical context, I don't think that there's such thing as a book so heinous that the general adult public should be outright banned from accessing it.

Meme answer: The Grapes of Wrath. The cast was so unlikable that I found myself silently hoping the strikebreakers would crack everyone else's skulls at the end and bring the story to a mercifully swift end. I refuse to let future generations of high schoolers suffer as I have suffered.

In hotel rooms, these books could replace the Gideon bible, which doesn't have the manners to come with that warning.

Yeah, to be fair I don't think I've come across many literary analysis', I probably would be more inclined to skip them.

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am starting to love her too! Would want to read Wives and Daughters next