Banned from publishing history for being equalist.

Stephen King. Maya Angelou. Basically, if you can find a half-dozen books by the author in Goodwill, that's an author worth avoiding. You won't find Harlan Ellison or Spider Robinson there

If only they would agree with everyone else that corporate profits come before planet death. I mean, kids are horrible little beasts, and your great-grandchildren will taste nummy. They'll be so happy you stood up for faceless corporations over your heroic fellowmen.

But hey, protesting out loud while wearing breasts! Get the scolds bridle! Oh, right, the judge already put that on them.

Which they found inhabited by 100,000,000,000,000 fleas.

Their motivation for stating the true and honest reason for their actions while in court is ALL IMPORTANT - the judge spent quite a while discussing what their motivation in telling the truth could be.

Their motivation for protesting, however, is absolutely never to be spoken out loud, and besides it's completely beside the point! Why would the motivation behind a.crime even matter, duh? Said. The. Judge.

Failing upward into global disaster.

James Frey's work, a lot of the conservative political screeds you find clogging shelves in Goodwill, etc

So it's like our current educational system.

U can only admire those who raise warriors for Christ, we got us a world to conquer!

That's nice. I read Pratchett and Heinlein to review my ethical guidelines.

Wonder which of us read and consider our touchstone literature more often.

add: Poor Sir Terry

In hotel rooms, these books could replace the Gideon bible, which doesn't have the manners to come with that warning.

I've thrown out bad books rather than donate them. Usually they have to be both badly written and unethical, but in the last few years, a new category had shown up, the amateur and completely unedited novel. They're even showing up in the library! Misspellings on every page, an author with no ability or knowledge of language, poorly printed, and a complete lack of editorial handling.

Yes I did do it! I plead not guilty,!

Straight info, yes. Anything I want to delve into, to appreciate - book.

He had too much power as house dad.

Pretty sure this has already been won in court.

I put it off for a couple decades, the book seemed so intimidating. Foolish, foolish.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Non-fiction. Reads like Indiana Jones with a 007 booster pack.

Cartoon History of the Universe. Gosnick filters unvarnished cultural horror through a sense of humor informed by Charles Addams.

Nonfic is awesome.

Anything by Tom Robbins. His endings are heartbreaking. Switters must not die! therefore I must never read the ending of Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates.

I think what you're missing is the historic human context. If you had the historic background, you would be able to connect the specific animals to the events Orwell was referencing. It's literally human history.

Screens destroy interest in intensive reading. Cut back in screen time - have evenings where you sit down, have music playing and a window to look out, and open a real book. It will take several weeks, at the least, to learn how to sit still and ficus, but if you keep shutting down screens and opening books, your concentration will increase

Screens are horribly addictive.

Same thing. To put facts into context, you stop and think, you build the base for a new overall understanding.

You don't stop thinking to read. Internal dialogue Is The Point of reading. If a reader isn't spending half their time staring at the wall and rearranging their assumptions, they're missing The Point.

All kids need to learn about torture and rape, maybe if Weinstein wrote a children's book we could be pleased he redeemed himself by connecting with kids?