Taliesin (post: 1191115) wrote:I want to burn The Heart of Darkness. Evil book. Evil.
Ashley (post: 1191621) wrote:Why is everyone assuming that book burning = Bible burning? Can't you just hate a book enough to want to see it burn without implying you want to burn every single copy and destroy the record of its existance?
Mr. SmartyPants (post: 1191590) wrote:Book burning is stupid. Anyone one of you who wants to burn a book should then tolerate someone burning the Bible.
Taliesin (post: 1191115) wrote:I want to burn The Heart of Darkness. Evil book. Evil.
Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
EricTheFred (post: 1192098) wrote:Is this the great literary classic by Joseph Conrad, or some other book? I found it heart-rending (and some one else found it good enough to re-set in the Vietnam War and call "Apocalypse Now") but Evil?
KKun wrote:Ashley, your list also makes me cry. Great Expectations and David Copperfield? ._. Why are there so many people who find Dickens intolerable? I adore his writing.
Ashley wrote:That last sentence makes me want to cry. I\'ve never liked Charles Dickens and never understood why anyone else did. But to be fair, I don\'t care for Tolkien, Scott, or anyone else who takes 50 million years to write a paragraph (except maybe Jane Austen).
Kkun (post: 1192044) wrote:Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. This book needs to fall apart.
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