"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." Ray Bradbury

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[–]UncleWillard56 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Buy em books and buy em books, what do they do? Tear out the pages and wipe their ass."

[–]Yin 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds racist.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Most people don't read books and I think shaming them over it is counterproductive. Most people don't burn books and that seems far, far worse.

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Most people find out the stuff they need to know from books whether they like it or not. See how many ideas from 1984 are common knowledge even though most people haven't read it.

[–]Musky 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

True, for all the good it does. Seems like we're doing the whole 1984 thing anyways.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They were doing it back then too. Orwell wrote from life.

[–]Evola 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

It depends what books we're talking about.

[–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do books about space Marines count?

[–]Evola 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Are they gay space marines?

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sometimes.

[–]aaarrgh 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it depends which books

[–]tiny-brown-mug 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Turn the page, wash your hands. Turn the page, wash your hands. And then you turn the page, and then you wash your hands.