Rachel, you're not supposed to eat books.

This gives me an idea. I find, for the most part (yeah, Mein Kampf does not read well) banned books are always fun to read. for your pleasure, i give you:

List of 100 most Challenged books of 1900-2000

what blows my mind, is that 'Where's Waldo' and 'Scary Stories' is on there... WHERE'S WALDO!?!?! are these people FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!? oops, sorry, i swore in text... i wonder if my writing will be censored now...

Censored? Excuse me trying to muffle my laughter. Unless things definitely have changed, and let me say that in this case it would be detrimental, the words you use are not what's censored/challenged. Just the stupid ideas that they convey :rolleyes:


Rahul, you old DINOSAUR, your vision's getting bad enough that you can't read what I write! Maybe you should trade your ear trimmers for a pair of spectacles.

Rachel, forgive me, I'll try and find the CORRECT name of the book I was talking about. The reason I was looking for the book is because someone told me that it wasn't in print anymore because of being banned. Because I'd never read it, the name didn't stick too well. Damned ginkgo biloba, you were supposed to make me remember things! Wait a minute, this bottle says horny goat weed...... oh, shit, not again.

Well, there's a book simply titled Black Boy....

It might be it, but the only information I can give you is that his name was Bo (I'm thinking it was just a slurring on shortening 'boy' because, then, a slave's name wouldn't matter) and that he was a small, boy, slave. Gee, how redundant of me. Not to mention I said it twice, too.

Again, Rachel, you're not supposed to eat books!

The paper will give you wood fiber, so of course you can eat books! The only question should be which ones have you hated enough that you considered them as poop to begin with.

i dunno, 'a wrinkle in time' really would be better as poop. THAT was a pretty shitty book.

Viajera said:
The paper will give you wood fiber, so of course you can eat books!  The only question should be which ones have you hated enough that you considered them as poop to begin with.

Dianetics
A Puropse Driven Life
Anything with Chicken Soup in the title.


...to name a few.

I don't know, I actually agree with that book title. A purpose-driven life helps people actually experience life, and without purpose, usually sucks.

The title is good, but the content is drivel...it's just the same psuedo-inspirational books that give a watered down version of Christianity.

Keep in mind, I'm quite a bibliophile, so I have distinct/high standards.

You have high standards? :blink:

Addmittedly, Harry Potter doesn't fall within those, but if it's any consolation, I only read the British Adult versions.

"High standards" implying the state of erection someone's nipples and cock are in while reading said novella trash

Well, they're not THAT bad. and 800% better than internet fiction.

Everything is better than internet fiction.

Except girl porn. Romance novels = girl porn.

Once you've read one, you've read them all!

Until you read girl on girl porn. That makes everything better, and is entertaining with each new installment!

Viajera said:
Except girl porn.  Romance novels = girl porn.

Once you've read one, you've read them all!

Thank gods I've never read one....


so the list goes:

Inspirational Garbage
Enders Game
Girl porn
Internet Fiction
Harry Potter
Nietzsche
Caitlin R. Kiernan

Rachel said:
Enders Game

We're still not friends.

It's still rated higher than Purpose Driven life, that counts for something.

Kurt Vonnegut... anything by Kurt Vonnegut is NOT poo.

Agreed.

Poppy Z. Brite isn't too bad depending on what you're reading of her's

This pertains to the topic perfectly: but am I right in having heard that the government is now wanting all Social Security benefits to go through a private agency now? Though I must also consider the voters stupid, considering that it's probably going to pass by a slim margin. We'll never get the money we've worked for, and also will be having to expense our privacy.

Not the government, Just Bush and his cronies. The majority (Democrats and Republicans) hate this plan and will never approve it.

And it's funny, all the rallies we see on T.V. like the town hall meetings feature pre-screened attendees...meaning if you have even a skightly differing opinion, you won't even get through the door.

People are always biased and will always segregate themselves into people they're comfortable with. I can rarely see a person and say 'open mind' and 'politics' in the same sentence to describe them.

That's a given, but there's something slightly facist about holding town hall meetings to support your Social Security plan and get America to embrace it, when the people in it have been told what to say.

The Daily Show did a comparison between British meeting of this sort and ours:


Ours: Script reading actors in the guise of townsfolk kiss up to Bush and try to sell his plan to America.

Britain: People hurl insults at Tony Blair during a televised Pre-Election interview show.

That kind of makes me wish I could carry Britain in my back pocket so I could pull it out whenever I needed a refreshing view of the raw, and uncensored speech.

I'd rather live there than have it in my back pocket.

But I have back pockets built like your side pockets.

*Note to everyone: Rachel can literally carry a candy store in those damn pockets.