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would you burn a book?
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Only if my life depended on it.
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Fezzik999

PostPosted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:41 pm


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In my..... 14 years on this earth I have only wanted to burn one book, that book is The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.


Why?

I'm curious to know too.

OK, had it beeen under different circumstances, that might be different, but I had to do a report, analysis, and then read it into a tape recorder for a school project and that made me ultimately hate it. It's a rather stupid explanation, I know, but I have my reasons.

Yeah....
PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:17 am


You had me worried that it was due to a literary reason. blaugh Of course, if I had to analyze a book as much as all that I might grow to dislike it too.

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elijahschick

PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:31 am


I swear to god above, every time i see on the news people burning books, i cry. It doesn't matter the book. It can be the bible being burned by Muslim Extremists (*not to be confused with muslims, who as a whole tend to be great great people*) Or Harry potter being burned by Christian Fundamentalists in the American south (*also not to be confused with the normal christians, who in my experience have also been pretty great people as well*). Frankly, I think people need to not blame books and ban them, and burn them. I was thinking about this when i was reading the stories about them Burning Harry Potter books. I was thinking to myself that the parents who were burning the books probably can't figure out why their children don't like to read much. I actually came across this in Canada. There was a mother who wouldn't let her children read fantasy, or harry potter, or pretty much anything but books she approved (*which pretty much meant nothing especially fun or interesing*) And couldnt' for the life of her figure out why her children never read and were subsequently suffering in their studies. I convinced her to let her olderst son, who was 13, read Harry Potter... and it was the most incredible turnaround ever. He began to read more books, and then after reading books develloped an incredible want to learn, and began to do well in school.

I suppose this long drawn out story up there is to say that my feelings towards book burning is this. It is wrong, it is horrifying, and it is stupid.
PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:09 pm


Book burning for any reason should be illegal. Reading about the book burning in Farenheit 451 gave me nightmares as do any articles that mention peole burning books.

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Fujin Oni

PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:31 pm


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There are only two good reasons to burn books.
1. To keep warm in the middle of a deadly blizzard.
2. If the book is cursed so anybody who reads it dies.


Ditto. Otherwise rather I liked the book or not I would NEVER burn it.
PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:29 pm


I heard a state within the bible belt felt the need to burn a book from the Harry Potter series. I think it's just a silly rumor, But they said it was blasphemy because the book centered around magic and things that counter faith or some such thing.

When I asked my friend why they would just ban the Harry Potter books, why didn't they ban every other fantasy book that related to magic as well? He said that's because it was such a popular book it got even southerners to read it. -_- Roar stereotypes.

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Mink Biscuit

PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:13 am


Apparently Heinrich Heine once said, "Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too." That seems about right to me.

I mean, the reasons most people burn books is because they're afraid of or disagree with the message a book sends, and that doesn't seem a valid excuse to me. If you don't want the people of your country to read something and get the wrong ideas from it, then go and set them straight with facts. If the ideas the book espouses are truly wrong, then the majority of people will recognize them as such. With so many media sources today, it's not that easy to completely fool an entire population forever. At least, in theory... <_<

Otherwise, you're crushing free speech, and that's creepy.
PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:51 pm


scream Who would burn a book. All books have things about the past, and ideas for the future. I have books taken away from me because I read to much, but if they burn them, I'm going to cry or beat them to a pulp.

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Dr.Speth

PostPosted: Mon May 01, 2006 5:21 pm


amazing, one of my threads still exist, lol. I am suprised
PostPosted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:00 pm


I hate the idea of it!

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aaaaafkp

PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 2:34 pm


Mink Biscuit
Apparently Heinrich Heine once said, "Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too." That seems about right to me.

I mean, the reasons most people burn books is because they're afraid of or disagree with the message a book sends, and that doesn't seem a valid excuse to me. If you don't want the people of your country to read something and get the wrong ideas from it, then go and set them straight with facts. If the ideas the book espouses are truly wrong, then the majority of people will recognize them as such. With so many media sources today, it's not that easy to completely fool an entire population forever. At least, in theory... <_<

Otherwise, you're crushing free speech, and that's creepy.
Exactly. o_o Why is it we support free speech yet we burn them when we feel like it?
PostPosted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:44 pm


Why do you need to bother to ask that in this guild? I frankly become sick at the mention of it (unless of coarse, that is part of a good story line a.k.a Farhenhieght 451)

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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 8:21 am


Lady Mamoru
There are only two good reasons to burn books.
1. To keep warm in the middle of a deadly blizzard.
2. If the book is cursed so anybody who reads it dies.


Amen. It hurts my soul to think of all the beautiful words being destroyed...no matter what they are about.
PostPosted: Tue May 30, 2006 1:42 pm


Having no political affiliation...I would probably never burn a book myself, but find no reason to find disgust in people who chose to... doesn't really bother me... I find it a waste of trees, but not a sin. ((for those who wonder, politics comes in the picture, becuase most revolutions have some sort of book burning or burning of some kind....it's quite a powerful statement... to lose a piece of written work...forever))

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Drowtung

PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:02 am


I think book burning is a terrible shame. Books are each works of art and should be cherished and treated as such. But I guess in a society that burns books, art would be treated thusly aswell. I'm happy to leave in a place where book burnings are rare if not nonexistant.
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