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19968581 No.19968581 [Reply] [Original]

Books that deserve this.

>> No.19968585

the bible

>> No.19968587

>>19968581
mein kampf for being shit modernist literature

>> No.19968597

Susan Sontag - Opera Omnia
Robert Graves - The White Goddess
Jack London - Opera Omnia
Robert Filmer - Patriarchia
Kurt Vonnegut - Opera Omnia (Except Harrison Bergeron)
John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism, A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive
Thomas Reid - Opera Omnia
Voltaire - Philosophical and political works
Brandon Sandersoi - Opera Omnia

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Book burnings are just a ritualistic act of group ideological solidarity through the symbolic purging of items thought to contain "evil" or corrupting ideas through "purifying" fire. Hence the encouragement of popular participation. They have little effect on the existence of any book of which a copy is destroyed in them. As such, i have nothing to recommend. But, i also don't understand the pearl-clutching that takes place around them. Either a fetishism of books as totemic of knowledge generally (and hence inviolable), or a liberal cry for transgressing ideological tolerance? Either way this is an incredibly dull thread and i'm gonna take a nap.

>> No.19968707

>>19968597
You ought to be burned

>> No.19968985

light novels

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picrel

>> No.19969011

>>19968663
burning books comes with proper censorship as well, anon

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all of them

>> No.19970524

>>19968587
>modernist

>> No.19970533

>>19968581
Everything written after the year 1940. Burn it all.

>> No.19970537

Anything related to the continental tradition in philosophy. There's so little redeemable with in it, and it poisons every discourse that adopts its terminology or ideas.
The world would be a better place if no one could read Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida, and any one whenever engaged with them.

>> No.19970577

>>19968597
Wow, "Opera Omnia" sure is a common title!

>> No.19970583

>>19970533
I could live with that.

>> No.19970635

Have any of you actually burned a book before, /lit/? In college I had a professor I hated who made us buy and read one of his books for class, which I found incredibly egotistical despite it being relevant to the subject. Eventually, my room acquired a fruit fly infestation due to my unhygenic practices, so I had the idea to rip up the book and burn it in the center of the room to smoke out the flies (the carpet was really hard and inflammable and the smoke detectors didn't work). The book didn't end up fully combusting and I only sort of half-burnt it before putting it out, but the smoke ended up successfully killing the fruit flies, I had to leave the room for a while and take a walk to avoid killing myself from the fumes as well.

>> No.19970748

>>19970635
I will not comment on your bizarre story.

The family "inherited" an entire library from an uncle who went crazy, bought an RV and started travelling the continent.
Some good things - especially technical books on geology and engineering - but also lots of pulp trash.
We kept the good ones and burned the rest in the barbecue grill. It took the entire day and they became proper ash.
It was a fun memory, sorting out the books with my father. I remember he would occasionally take some smut from my hands and throw it on the rejects pile when I asked what was that book.

>> No.19970751

my diary desu

>> No.19970756

>>19969055
unbelievably based

>> No.19970762

>>19968585
>>19968587
Go fuck yourselves with a chainsaw

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>>19968585

>> No.19970778

>>19970762
No, I don't think I will.

>> No.19970857

>>19968581

As a publisher, I love it when people burn books.
I am a little concerned with the environmental effects, but statistically speaking, every time people burn books as a protest, sales of those books increase.
Those people don't read.

The only downside, outside of the environment or the possibility of morons burning down more than a couple of books, is that I lose some of their children as customers...
... at least until they reach the age of rebellion and want to read what their stupid parents burned.

They should really look up the Streisand Effect.

>> No.19971506

>>19970857
Like if gathering to burn books was a popular activity today, things aren't that good nowadays.

>> No.19971561

>>19968581
Sexologist/tranny/queer/pedo/gender theory books, just like the ones in your pic OP.

>> No.19971574

>>19968663
>They have little effect on the existence of any book of which a copy is destroyed in them.
That might be true today, or even in the 30s, but book burnings have occured before that time. In The Acts of the Apostles, Paul enters the city of Ephesus and ministers there. After the might of the name of Jesus is proven to local excorcist, and afterwards, this happens:
"And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books and burned them in front of everyone. When the value of the books was calculated, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas."
The amount of texts that survive from Antiquity, compared to the total amount that were penned in that time, is only a sliver of a sliver. I think it must be much less than 90%. Even with very respected works, many texts perish, such as with Aristotle, who wrote many dialogues, none of whom survive. Disposing of a manuscript in Antiquity very much had an impact. Also of note is how money is mentioned. Fifty days' wages.

>> No.19971669

>>19970751
Kek
Came here to post this.