Have you ever thrown a book in the bin?

Im not sure they are amused as much as clutching their pearls

The Golden Child. I loved the book, but oh the ending.

I think I've only literally thrown away books that were really damaged (i.e. fallen in the bath) or had chunks of pages missing, or DS2 had torn all the flaps off a lift-the-flaps book. But I've thrown a few across the room, and then got rid of them via a charity shop. Most memorably, that sacred cow, 'This is Going To Hurt' by ex (thank god it's ex!) doctor Adam Kay.

I really wanted to like this. Everyone thought it was amazing. It was a bestseller. It was on the side of the angels (or so the hype had it). I found it appalling - massively misogynistic, riven with awful stereotypes, and the utter contempt he had for so many patients that had the misfortune to encounter him ... Because I wanted closure on the book I did keep on to the end, and it became a bit of a twisted pleasure to log all the instances of misogyny. I then wrote exactly what I thought of the book, and by extension, the man, on a post-it, stuck it right in the centre of the book, and put it in the bag for the next charity shop donation.

where triggered means amused at your toeing the party line?

Yup

Someone is getting triggered 🙄

So you've been witness to JKR going round and beating up men who say they are women and you haven't reported her to the police?
You know she doesn't recycle, and puts empty milk bottles back in the fridge, don't you? She's just horrendous.

I assume you have also ditched all books by Charles Dickens and Neil Gaiman, or are they ok because they were horrible to women instead of helping them to achieve their rights?

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You believe in magic and believe that TWAW?

Figures.

what damage has she done to trans people?

You are getting your opinions 2nd and 3rd hand if you believe she does anything at all to trans people. She supports women and that's what annoys you and your TRA mates.

Another book i metaphorically cast aside with great force (in reality i sold it to Momax) was the sodding Alchemist. God what an awful awful awful waste of dead trees.

Totally agree

Oh honey, i do believe in magic which is why i have read many books that are so much better than hers and id direct a child there first. I regularly donate books but i just felt that the world is a little more inclusive with one less set of her pish in the world

A book for children that started out OK then stated fairies were children that weren't born, unwanted unborns. Had to make up whole new story on the fly. Binned book after ' finishing' it. Luckily dd wasn't yet reading.

She still talks about her favourite book. She will have s shock if she ever does read it, because I made up a whole new story every bloody night.

A book in a holiday home. Sickening. Tore it into tiny pieces and burnt it. I can only hope it was vanity published.

Eh, it's personal opinion. I've always thought his books were pretentious, edgelord shit – he tried too hard to be shocking and creepy, but had very little substance or depth, and I always felt misogyny kept leaking through in a way that made me even more uncomfortable than Stephen King's unfortunate obsession with breasts.

So I wouldn't feel bothered if people couldn't read him because I threw a book out. No great loss.

On what? Magic?
I'm sure she's gutted anyway. Shame you couldn't have given them to a charity shop but I guess small children might be harmed by thinking magic is real.

You do you. While she may have done some good in the past and im not taking that away from her i do not agree with her views aroind trans people and the damage she has done to them. So yeah i binned her books

That's very dramatic! Why did you decide to do that?

I was given an inscribed little red New Testament when I was baptised as a baby. Later on, aged about eight, I took an axe to it in my dad's shed. I smashed it to pieces, and don't remember disposing of it but I'm sure it will have gone in the dustbin afterwards (no recycling in those days).

You binned the Harry Potter books because you don't like J K Rowling's views? Sounds a bit extreme.

She founded Lumos in 2005, which has helped move thousands of children from orphanages into family-based settings.
Do you think she should have left those children in orphanages?

She launched Beira's Place in 2022 to provide women-centred support for victims of sexual violence.
Do you think female victims of male sexual violence shouldn't have that support?

Through the Volant Charitable Trust, she supports projects for female prisoners and survivors of domestic abuse.
Would you prefer that she didn't give that support those projects?

She's a great philanthropist, contributing to many worthy causes such as the creation of a new Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh.
Do you disagree with her view that those with a great deal of money should use it to benefit others?

And of course she believes in the power of reading and has given joy to countless children through her books.

Personally, I find her views admirable.

Not me but my ex. I was reading The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer in the hotel room on holiday and he grabbed the book declaring it to be crap and he chucked it outside through the patio doors. I retrieved and finished the book. Should have dumped him right there and then.

“We Need To Talk About Kevin”. Nasty. Only book I’ve physically binned.

David Walliams. Only book I’ve ever thrown away.

I was so scared of an Ursula Le Guin book as a child (the cover but also the contents) I had to put it out of the room at night!

Aww! That’s really sweet.

You have reminded me that I had to remove The Fierce Bad Bunny book from my DD’s big box set of Beatrix Potters and hide it. She was terrified of it. He gets his tail shot off with a gun! It’s not nice.

i had already passed on my copy of the salt path but i definitely would have binned it on principle if id still had it when the truth behind it came out