To dump this book in recycle bin - hatched job biography

[MCos]

I have NEVER dumped a book before. I either keep to reread, pass on to friends or relations who I think will enjoy the book, or give to charity shop.

I wanted something to read while sitting out in the beautiful weather this weekend. I pulled out a book I picked up second hand a few year ago. The Secret Life of Joan Denise Moriarty, by Sandra MacLiammoir. (Some Irish on here may remember Joan Denise Moriarty). OMG, what a hatched job. I will admit to reading it the whole way through, but was disgusted about the unfair treatment of the subject. It reminded me of Kitty Kelly - and that it not a compliment.

So AIBU to dump this in my recycling bin - so not to pass on this mean and spiteful rubbish to anybody else?

And to ask if any of you ever dumped a book, because it was nasty and you had a strong negative reaction to it??

I almost bought one of ASDAs £1 copies of 'Lord
of the Flies' just so I could burn it.

.. recycle it - make nice paper chains with the pages - hang it up and let our good British weather piss on all the pages !!!

I'd have been with you in the burning queue with 'Lord of the Flies' Startail!

...oops sorry - just reading that the Sun was out were you were - in that case send it the South Coast of England and we will string it up for you !!!

Startail what's the matter with Lord of the Flies?! It's one of my about its books!

Oops... That should say 'favourite books'

A Stranger in a Strange Land. Such misogynist twaddle. I used it for a fire starter when we went camping. The nice Canadian teenagers in the next tent were horrified at the book burning and offered us kindling. I told them I wanted to burn it as it was so shit. They were

I didn't burn Moby Dick but I was tempted. Boring, and I like Dostoevsky so I'm not easily bored.

YANBU.

Not many books are that dreadful but some do deserve to be dumped. I've found none so far that deserve a burning though.

Can't burn it, since I don't have an open fire. But my sister and dad have wood burning stoves - and the nice weather won't last for long in Ireland. I think I would get much satisfaction for popping it into a stove! Thanks for that idea!

I guess Lord of the Flies was rather nasty! It did give me a sick feeling in my stomach. But I can handle that much better with fiction.

I would just pass it on to a charity shop. Or if you feel strongly enough, rip the pages out and put them in recycling.

My ds when aged about 10 was given a children's book which was about a boy of about 12 spending a summer living alone in the Canadian Rockies. It included graphic descriptions of how he caught an animal, killed it, skinned it and cooked it. We're vegetarian and skipped that bit, thinking it was just one little bit. But then it went on to him finding a domestic dog and sewing up its wounds then following the dog to where it had come from and finding its family who had been ripped apart by a bear, complete with graphic descriptions (look away now!) of the boy reacting by vomiting and finding body parts, with lots of unpleasant detail. He then comes across the same bear (apparently) and fights it and kills it. His arm is pulled out of its socket in the fight. It made me want to heave, particularly the description of him finding the bodies. I thought of passing it on to a charity with a note saying it looks like a children's book but is probably more suitable for adults. But in the end I just put it in the bag.

Oh yes, I think I may have recycled a breastfeeding book as the advice was not to allow the baby to feed for more than 10 minutes and I didn't want that advice passed on.

I wear glasses, Im bit of a geek. I wasn't an overweight child, but DSIS was.

From very early on it's clear I'm not going to like the ending of LOTF

I wouldn't give my copy of GF to any new mother.

No need to burn it, DDs like reading it and trying to get SIMs 'babies' tofollow it. Just like real babies tbey don't.

I have kept it, but it is the worst book I have ever read, ever and I have read some stinkers!

It was a biography of Nell Gwyn written by Lord/Duke/Earl Someone of Somewhere, directly descended from one of her children by Charles II.

It was appalling. Leaving aside the dreadful writing, which in itself was so bad it made trawling through it painful, he had no facts at all! He would conjecture what might have happened in her childhood (for example) given her roots and then only a page later this conjecture was taken as fact. There isnt much known about her life before court, why would there be? But you dont just make it up and then say "there, thats what happened!". Not quite the same as you describe but I get chills even thinking about going back to it!

Another one who doesnt understand what is wrong with LOTF. Admittedly its been donkeys years since I read it but I ..... enjoyed is the wrong word....appreciated it. I thought it was a good book!

Star I was the bozz eyed glasses wearing goofy kid, but I appreciated that it was an illustration of how we behave within "civilization" and how the bastards will always get to the top and rule the weak.