Have you ever thrown a book in the bin?

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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?

I bet it was Ambition. Which I vaguely remember quite liking. It was amusingly smutty and I took it to be a parody of the ‘80s’ obsessions with power and sex.

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

I got to “the parallax of unhurrying fatality” thought fuck off and threw it out.

Ooh that's a bad one. How to Lose Your Gumption and Become A Domestic Martyr in Ten Easy Steps

But cousin Helen...

I did love it as a child though 🤣

I threw away a book called My Fat Brother when they implied that Rupert Brooke wasn’t even a war hero because he died of an infected insect bite. It was shite before that but this was the final straw.

the problem with kindle is you can’t throw books away in any satisfying way any more (not that I do, generally, the aforementioned being the only one except for The Horse And His Boy as a child when I threw up on it. Though I’d have binned both Outlander and 50 Shades if they’d been physical books).

Fifty shades of grey.

I flushed some of it down a pub toilet.

The Split by Sharon Bolton. Just so mind numbingly boring. And The Cuckoo Sister by Alison Stockham - rubbish.

Julie Burchill’s a great writer, so why she was allowed to publish Sugar Rush still surprises me.

Fury by Salman Rushdie. Tedious narcissistic novel about a Cambridge-educated middle-aged man of Indian heritage who is irresistible to young women and who leaves his wife and children out of altruism because he's afraid his 'fury' could make him dangerous. Has a ridiculous literary device whereby he makes dolls, big symbolism about the creative process. Whole pages are sacrificed in order to set up terrible puns. Jilly Cooper does that much better.

Yes! Gina Ford when my ds was about a week old. It was horrendous and made me feel like shit for not having a routine. It was my first child and it's such a toxic book. Years later I felt furious with the friend who had recommended it to me. I burnt it on the fire.

It was still in our local public library in the early/mid 70s. It was one of my younger sister's favourite books!

One flew out of our top floor flat window once in a gust of wind that actually broke the window and we also lost a load of cds too, we ran down and scrabbled around for the cds but Atonement was lost forever (because I didn’t look for it because the first 5 chapters had been so shite i would have never continued reading it anyway).

I read the first line of this thinking it was going to say one flew over the cuckoos nest 😅

once at a bus station, realised it was an erotica type novel it was mercy novel david lindsey

A copy of War and Peace which had about 5 pages missing. It’s one of my favourite books and I bought it from a charity shop. The pages missing were an important bit and it occurred to me that it was one of my favourite books but I’d never read the whole thing. Figured I deserved a full copy so bought a new one. I felt bad binning the old copy. 5 pages out of hundreds seems like nothing but I’d have felt worse giving it to charity knowing someone else would have my moment of wtf turning a page and realising it skipped a ( pretty important) bit.

if it had been a few of the ‘great men theory of history’ pages missing I’d have happily kept it!

Life's to short for bad books- 50 shades got ripped up and a Discovery of Witches went to the charity shop. Both got scathing reviews on Amazon.

Interesting. I've only read Seven Husbands and didn't hate it but didn't get the hype. I might read Daisy Jones based on your review

I agree! It's shockingly bad and potentially damaging to mothers and babies.

Sorry, but Gina Ford (twenty years on) can be a lifesaver for some. I wasn't coping at all until we had a routine. Every mum and baby is different.

I don't go round poo-pooing baby wearers and co-sleepers. If it works for you both, then do it.

Yes, I think this all a very individual thing. I don’t think Ford’s books or advice are wicked, terrible or even old fashioned. If parents want to do it differently that’s up to them.

Simply.... no.
I was raised to believe that books were precious, and so, no, I've never binned one.
I've given plenty away to friends, family or charity, and sold a great many online, but never, ever, have I, or would I bin one.

I threw out allnthe Harry Potter books

Why’s that, @OpenDreamer?

I remember as a child reading a book about a little black baby who wanted to be white and put whitewash on him and then a good fairy made him white. This was in the 60’s early and even then I thought it was a horrible book. Don’t know what it was called.

I don't agree with her views