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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 482917)

Philistine.

:D

I don't remember Hairy Rings Hitchhikes to Space in a Ship Made of Marshmallows as being required reading in the 6 or 7 literature classes I took in college, just for funzies. :bolt:

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 482931)

:D

I don't remember Hairy Rings Hitchhikes to Space in a Ship Made of Marshmallows as being required reading in the 6 or 7 literature classes I took in college, just for funzies. :bolt:

Philistine elitist, then.

"The secret life of bees" or whatever total waste of my life that book where those black ladies kept pouring honey on a statue of Mary...YUCK.

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Philistinism is a derogatory term used to describe a particular attitude or set of values. A person called a Philistine (in the relevant sense), is said to despise or undervalue art, beauty, intellectual content, and/or spiritual values. Philistines are also said to be materialistic, to favor conventional social values unthinkingly, and to favor forms of art that have a cheap and easy appeal (e.g. kitsch).

Now come on, let's kitsch and make up.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 482931)

Hairy Rings Hitchhikes to Space in a Ship Made of Marshmallows

Is that a sequal to: I, God Emperor of the Rings' Guide to the Stainless Steel Light Fantastic's Edge and the Half-Blood Prince's Compass in a Strange Land?

Wasn't that an Emerson Lake and Palmer album?

The Bible. Aside from it being a long, boring read with so many plot holes you'd think it was swiss cheese; it has caused more problems than any other book I know.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to come up with the Bible. Sure, that one collection of books has caused a lot of problems, but is it irredeemably bad? You are possibly right though in that it has caused more problems than any other book - but I think maybe the communist manifesto might be a bigger problem causer perhaps?

The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion

If there was ever a book that needed to be destroyed, burned, eradicated from the face of the earth, it is this.

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Originally Posted by BrianR (Post 482768)

My worst book was Stephen King's Gerald's Game.

I figure SK lost his touch about then. But I wouldn't burn it. Maybe relegate it to a box in the attic.

Burning books can get carried away. Farenheit 451, anyone?

Yes, I know he meant the one copy, not ALL of them, but still.

Oh, yeah. I'd burn that one for sure. Hated that book.

no, i liked it actually. its a lot better than 1984, plot-wise at least.

i'd have to pick the harry potter series. and the twilight series. and the entire genre of mindlessly cliche boring coming-of-age 'young adult' novels that obviously assume young adults have the IQ and maturity of a vegetative kindergarten student. You know the ones I'm talking about. that genre with its own shelf on the very very edge of the colourful zany kids section of barnes and noble (/borders/books-a-million/every other bookstore ever) where every book is the same length, as part of a four-to-five-book series, where the plot is more basic and formulaic than a tom clancy novel.
those.

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 482944)

"The secret life of bees" or whatever total waste of my life that book where those black ladies kept pouring honey on a statue of Mary...YUCK.

Now, see, I rather enjoyed that book. I like bees.

I'd also not mind if someone torched "The Silmarillon" by Tolkien.
I've tried to read it at least 5 times and 10 pages is all I could slog through.

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs (Post 483170)

I'd also not mind if someone torched "The Silmarillon" by Tolkien.
I've tried to read it at least 5 times and 10 pages is all I could slog through.

They recently went off on The Silmarillon, on the Radiohead board at Audiogalaxy.

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I don't think anyone made it that far in to tell. Like Godboy, I read about one paragraph, some such about some spirit gods or somefuck and then threw it over my bookshelf into my pile of cumrags.