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[felis_ultharus]

So now I have a copy of the worst book ever written sitting on top of a box in the living room. I had to read it for a course.

Calling it bad doesn't cover it. This is a density of awful (offal) so massive that it has ripped a hole in the space-time continuum and is gradually sucking all the imagination, power, and beauty from all our other books. we're going to be left with nothing but shelf after shelf of Vanna Speaks.

I have a moral aversion to burning, throwing out, or recycling books, though this time I'm sorely tempted. I might bury it on Mount royal, though I fear that would leave that patch of ground infertile for centuries to come. Giving it to a bookstore would mean inflicting it on strangers -- an act of cruelty.

So here goes:

[Poll #512495]

Comments

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

We here at Casa Del Lezzies are all about le recyclage. This is a part of our ongoing commitment to l'environment. ;)

[foi-nefaste.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm actually rather fond of tossing books out the window when they're that horrible. It fulfills some need for cliched entertainment, I suppose. Though that might not work so well, given the part where you live in the basement of your building...

Hmm. You know, if the book looks new, you can return it to Certain Major Bookstores for credit towards other books.

If that won't do, then recycling sounds altogether reasonable.

[ubergreenkat.livejournal.com]

while for the creepy farenheit (sp?) 451 reason, i am against burning books. but it does sort of appeal in a name of the rose kinda way. but yes, i believe that recycling is the way to go - it will hopefully become part of someone else's productive contribution to literature.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

The consensus seems to be recyclage. I do hope the next book to wind up on that paper is better.

I feel embarrassed because I used to do recycling-education for the city, but I can't remember if they're now recycling books whole, or if they have to be dismantled in some way.

[jc2004.livejournal.com]

I used to take books I didn't want and put them in the alley on sunny days. The homeless could find them and sell them to used book stores. Either that or I trade them at used bookstores for other books or give them to charity. Someone will usually want a book, no matter how bad it is.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a good idea. Thank you :)