Have you ever thrown a book in the bin?

[HopSpringsEternal]

I did yesterday for I think the 3rd time in my life.
The first was that book by Gina Ford when DS1 was about 2 weeks old. It was all the rage at the time but DS definitely didn't want to follow the rules. In fact it was DH that threw it out and I was definitely a lot more.content.
The second was when I got out my old Doctor Dolittle books to read the kids and I realised they were littered with the N word. In a sort patronising racist way "the nice n man". Didn't want that word seen or normalised by any other kids so in the recycling it went.
The last was yesterday. Lying in bed realised their was a Neil Gaiman book on my book shelf. Didn't not want a book of that vile bastard staring at me so into the bin he went.
Foot all other books if I don't want them anymore.I just take them to the charity shop. But I didn't want to inflict the above three on anybody else.
Has anyone else?

Kids books that are too bad to donate many times.

I got Serial Killer Games from the library, if I'd have bought it, I'd have binned it to save anyone else the pain of attempting to read it.

ooh, you are taking a big risk with your first author, swmnbn @HopSpringsEternal

The Friendaholic book by Elizabeth Day. What a smug pile of never-ending bilge. World’s tiniest violin for somebody writing a whole book on having too many friends .

Oh that reminded me.I did chuck away a massive compendium of Thomas the boring to fuckTank engine book.

I do wish I had chucked a book. I read in the library that was basically kidnap porn. But they'd already black listed me enough times for forgetting to bring books back in time.

No.

i have thrown a book at a wall though when I was really pissed off with what was happening.

sounds shite alright 🤷🏽‍♀️

@EleanorReally thats true. It was a bit pre the libel stuff!

@Octavia64 which book and which bit?

John Niven's Kill Your Friends. So hateful and cold-hearted, and showoffy about it too, like look at me I scorn everything and I'm so cool.

A book called Mr Pip that spoilt my holiday with its ending. I didn’t want it spoiling anyone else’s holiday…

Yes I have actually.
I read Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and loved it. Then I read Malibu Rising and enjoyed it (but not quite as much). Then Carrie Soto and it was a great beach read. So I thought I could trust Taylor and bought another of hers in the airport bookshop as my sole read for the week.
Worst. Book. Ever.
It was so bad I actually cried at the audacity of all those people who conspired to put the book on the shelf. I felt they were all laughing at me and it was some big joke. I had to bin it because I couldn't look at it anymore.
Anyway, that book was One True Loves.
As an epilogue to this story, I decided to give Taylor another chance and read the Seven Husbands (or however many there were) of Evelyn Hugo. And that was shit as well.

Only two because they were too badly damaged to donate to the charity shop. I don’t understand throwing books on the bin when someone else might enjoy it regardless of whether or not you did or think that they shouldn’t read it.

Once. But that's because it fell in the toilet.

I threw the latest cormoran strike book at the wall. And then I was sad for several days before I could go back to reading it (because goddamit I wanted to know what happened next)

I do respect that opinion, its a form of censorship but yesterday I didn't want somebody else to pick up a Neil Gaiman book, love it and then buy another one thus giving money to that bastard.

I don’t understand gatekeeping like that. I find it quite offensive as a reader personally.

I don’t think I’ve ever thrown a book in the bin. I sell or donate mine. Just because I hate a work of fiction, that doesn’t mean I want to stop someone from else from reading it.

Saw just the title of the post and thought "yes, that Gina Ford baby book" then read the post. Great minds etc. 😁

I read Gozzle (Julia Donaldson) to my baby DS the other night. I ALWAYS flip through kids’ books before I buy them to see what they are about, but this is the one time I didn’t because I figured if it was Julia Donaldson, it would be wonderful.

It was wonderful, but I donated it to the library the next day (I couldn’t bring myself to bin it, even though I was angry crying about it) because it was about a gosling ‘adopting’ a bear as her Dad, and then the story ends with the now-adult gosling introducing her babies to ‘Grandad’. My Dad died just before I found out I was pregnant, so DS will never meet him. I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much over a bloody book!

At our old church there was a children's book of similar vintage to the Dr Dolittle above - with smiling images of forrin children. It somehow found its way to our recycling at home.

One I had on Kindle that I would have chucked in the bin had it been a physical book was Yvonne Newbold's book about challenging children. The essence of the first few chapters was "oh well, your child is hitting you, just have a cup of tea and stay calm".

Haven't thrown away but have thrown across the room because the Australian or American author set a book in Cambridge having seemingly never visited the place and having no knowledge of how UK universities work.

I was travelling in India and the only book I had was a gifted Time Traveller’s Wife, dreadful, badly written piece of imbecilic story telling. So I read it ….as had nothing else….and was going to bin it so no one else had to go through that…but eventually left it instead in case it was worth something to someone.

In my 20s tore Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar to pieces and flung it in the bin because it made me so distressed. Then I had to go and get a copy out of the library to finish it.

At my son's request I once had to take one of his R. L. Stine scary stories to the bin outside, because he was so scared of it being in the house.

I did exactly the same thing! I was travelling in Mexico and left it in a hostel. It was shite but not bin worthy.

Any David Walliams kids book. In. The. Bin.