I have a book in my possession that I hate. Absolutely loath. I can't donate it because that could encourage someone else to read it, but I can't throw it out or burn it because I have a mental block against destroying books.
lol it's like the 3rd or 4th in a book series whose name I forget. I'm not in the same city as the book or I would be able to say. The series name has something to do with labyrinths, but I can't remember.
But it's some zero-name book series that no one has heard of it. It was recommended to me. B| Now that person's taste is in question in my mind. (Though to be fair, the book I'm talking about wasn't out when it was recced.)
Have someone else burn it in front of you. Go camping and have them rip out the pages one by one to feed to the fire. Good books should be kept or shared, but that's certainly not something that applies to all books.
I actually stabbed a copy of Wizard's First Rule, and once I got over the sheer horror of OMG WTF AM I DOING TO A BOOK, it was actually pretty therapeutic.
It was a friend's book, and he started the stabbing b/c he hated it so much, which helped I think.
i threw wicked in a trash can fire cause it was so awful. it was at a party where we each brought one book that we "felt made us dumber than we were before we read it". but it had to be a book you had bought yourself, etc etc. it was really therapeutic. lol someone threw out catcher in the rye though and i thought it was hilarious.
lol won't somebody consider the pain and suffering the books are going through?!?! i did a lot of mixed media art in college and my favorite thing to do was find a cool book (especially vintage) and cut it up XD
People are just really sensitive about books because of what's happened in the past with bookburnings and bans and whatnot. To destroy a book, for a lot of people, is a symbolic attack on freedom of speech.
I work in a library and I don't like the smell of old books. But it seems blasphemous to admit that. Also the really old books (like over a hundred years old) leave orange dirt on you when you touch them. I soon learned not to wear white clothes to work. And some of them are fuzzy. I hate touching fuzzy things.
Haha, I just realised I made it sound like I hate my job when actually I love it, but yeah. Books can be annoying.
One time as a kid I checked out Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from the library and it was such an old copy and smelled SO FUCKING BAD. The smell would transfer to my hands when I read it so I read the book with knit gloves on lmao
DISHONOR ON YOU
DISHONOR ON YOUR COW
if she had used bibles it would have been different
LOLing so much at her cutting the edge of The Miserable Mill with the cover glaring at her.
But oh, how I would like to watch it burn.
But it's some zero-name book series that no one has heard of it. It was recommended to me. B| Now that person's taste is in question in my mind. (Though to be fair, the book I'm talking about wasn't out when it was recced.)
Good books should be kept or shared, but that's certainly not something that applies to all books.
what the fuck do I do with it
It was a friend's book, and he started the stabbing b/c he hated it so much, which helped I think.
I'm a book lover, but honestly? They're ink on paper, in the end.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Harry-P
you know, if you're as much of a dork as me.
wtf
Edited at 2012-08-16 03:54 pm (UTC)
I do like the sound library books make when you open them, because of all the plastic they put on them lol
still haunted by that post
Also the really old books (like over a hundred years old) leave orange dirt on you when you touch them. I soon learned not to wear white clothes to work. And some of them are fuzzy. I hate touching fuzzy things.
Haha, I just realised I made it sound like I hate my job when actually I love it, but yeah. Books can be annoying.