98% of the books I have already are from either HPB or a smaller book store near me called book rack. Almost never do I buy new. Always support local if you can.

Please if you buy new try and support a local bookstore. They can usually find what you want even if it's not in shop.

I usually do Half Priced Books for a lot, but for when I want brand new I go out of my to the local place as they are so knowledgable and fun to walk around.

You were doing great, but this is the comment that gives it away that you’re a troll.

I think a further problem is that these books aren't just impacting individual patients who choose to read them, the views spread, they can promote/justify ableism, and it's difficult to get an ableist to take responsibility for the harmful impact of their views/actions.

I'm a victim of medical negligence and have every reason to distrust the medical system itself, but more scientific understanding is definitely the answer, not less. It's not even just the most obvious crystal healing stuff, psychology as a field is horrific for woo, and still, despite a history of medical abuse, holds the influence to be more widely harmful. Having a bunch of misplaced pins through my spinal canal, possibly splitting the cord, and severe life-altering neuropathic pain incl intense burning, I'd at least be tempted to watch the writers of some of these books be added to the pyre and sweetly ask them 'Have you considered that pain is all in your head?'.

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

Project Hail Mary for sure!

Any of Roald Dahl’s children’s books.

Rabbit by the comedian Ms. Pat

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ghost wall by sarah moss

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Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is one that really sticks out for me. I read it in high school around the time the movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman came out and changed my whole outlook on non fiction.

I don't understand your analogy to Oppenheimer and Truman. My prosecutor's argument is that the monster, as a creation of a person, is a machine and therefore has no conscious, and therefore can't be guilty, so the guilt has to lie with Dr. Frankenstein. (I don't subscribe to this theory, by the way, it's just how I imagine myself as a prosecutor arguing it.) Who is Oppenheimer in your analogy and who is Truman?

Reading this now :). I had a difficult time getting through the first 70 or so pages, but now I am whizzing through it.

Setting aside questions of whether we should literally support book burning, I'd suggest A Tale of Two Cities (and Carlyle's fake history, which it's in part drawn from). Yes, it's much loved in the Anglosphere, it can be very moving (Wilde may scoff, Dickens is good at cheap emotional manipulation), and makes it so easy to gloss over the completely explicit xenophobia that even Orwell seemingly forgot in his essay, not to mention which side our own sane class interests actually fall (the very wealthy middle class readers are not so inclined to forget). This is why it's such an effective work of propaganda, continues to perpetuate misconceptions, and make them darn near impossible to eradicate. And the thing is the reality of this period, the Enlightenment philosophy, the political thought, is still such a live-wire, radical and relevant, capable of blowing the English Establishment sky high, if we were instead getting at it. I honestly think this book has helped contribute to holding us back centuries (if only we had instead absorbed Mercier's idea of a united Franco-Anglo revolution).

I'm not actually saying we should burn it when the revolution comes, that would be less than ideal. But I couldn't be bothered to be all that sorry had it vanished last century, either.

Great Expectations. I was obsessed with it at 12, and even though I’ve read it several times throughout adulthood the magic will never be quite the same.

“I’m very against censorship in general. Now here’s a specific list of the things I would like censored.”

Cowboy Smith!!!

What happens at book club stays at book club.

Nah just kidding. In my experience it differs. Some are super casual chatting about the book while snacking or drinking. Others are more "English class" approach to discuss themes, background, characters in more depth.

The Way of Kings - It's been, is, and probably will be my favorite book, for a long, looooooong time.

One of my favs

Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Great book!

First rule of book club is you don't talk about book club