Have you ever listened to the podcast If Books Could Kill? Highly recommend it, they pick different ‘airport books’ each week (non-fiction fad books, often woo woo themed) and discuss them and the impact they had.

On the episode about The Secret, they say that the book influenced a woman to give up chemotherapy because she really thought that asking the universe to cure her would work.

I guess burning books like this would be harmful at this point because we need to use them as examples of exactly how junk science can be harmful, but i can’t help but think how many people might have been harmed unnecessarily by books like The Secret.

Those were the only ones that came to mind for me as well, although I think that burning or banning them would provoke a Streisand effect and they would become more widely read for it

I find it helpful when I go to something like this a notebook with my thoughts and discussion questions were helpful because it help keep me on track.

I would not burn or ban any book, but there is a difference between a school library, college library, and public library. Not all books should be available in every library. Anyway, good luck keeping books out of circulation when people have access to the internet.

I never read them. I haven't come across one that added enough that I was happy I read it instead of just starting the book.

Libraries can burn too, you know?

Never. Because who decides? Where does it stop? When you burn books you are trying to silence thoughts and ideas and even when those thoughts and ideas are objectively evil we need to understand them if only to stop them propagating through vulnerable populations that are susceptible to misinformation and lies. The answer is to teach critical thinking, not turn certain thoughts into a martyr or a disease whose existence then flourishes, hidden in the dark corners until the infection can no longer be treated without killing the patient.

The first rule about book club ...

Farenheit 451.

Just for the science of it.

Never met anyone who used Greek mythology to justify oppressing other people.

Probably the bible, but I'm a flaming athiest so...

There's nothing wrong with it in general, but for me having the books in my house would make me feel like I have to read all of them asap and would make reading into a chore. For me reading should be about the journey, not the destination.

Personally what I do is, I do have a TBR list on Goodreads, but I usually buy 8-10 books at a time. Then I get new ones when I'm almost done with my 8-10 books. This way there are always unread books on my nightstand to choose from, but I don't have the unread books stacking up and making me feel guilty about not yet reading them.

But if you're a young person looking to fill their first bookshelf, I can imagine how that's different for you!

No, because I don't think any particular person or political party or government should have the power to decide what is and is not harmful literature. There are plenty of books I think are genuinely harmful, but I'd rather they exist than someone have the ability to burn every book that doesn't align with their religious ideals or whatever.

This book was not for me.

I hope you have never contact to any child.

Bibles.

I actually have my list on thriftbooks. I was considering doing multiple orders to take advantage of the rewards for free books.

I recommend not buying them all at once, at some point you will lose interest since you got to what you wanted so fast and you’ll end up not reading as much as you did before

Anything written by serial killers that gets slipped into publishing markets like the Robert pickton biography that was self published on Amazon that got pulled. I also am not a fan of anything written by Peter Sotos, some of his interviews are interesting I guess if you’re into his music career but a lot of his rhetoric is written in the perspective of the abuser. Gates of Janus by Ian Brady is also garbage. Anything written by my grandfather is also garbage.

Books are a part of history.

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And little free libraries in your area, they can be found at LFL website, world map.

Well, don't send a hit squad after me but I'd gladly burn Handmaids Tale. Hate that book. Couldn't finish it. The story itself isn't the problem. It's the writing.

Also, I read a bit of historical fiction called Catherine the Inquisitor about Henry VIII and Queen Catherine. Dumbest thing I've ever read. Apologies to the author but even historical fiction should be believable and make some sense with what we know about the people.

Yes! Life doesn't always tread along in a predictable rhythm. Today you are busy making money, the day will come when you have time to read. Also use something like wooden apple crates to put your books in, they stack good as a book case as your library grows. On moving day you just need a Trash bag to cover the top and the move is done.

I'm more in favor of improving the quality of education so there are better powers of discernment going around.