Saturday, January 09, 2010

Which books should we burn?

Welsh pensioners are buying books as fuel. Discounting differences in book size, and assuming you could gather all copies of the same title, which books would you burn?

On his deathbed, the poet Virgil requested his friends to burn his "Aeneid". Does an author have the right to do this?

4 comments:

  1. James Higham9 January 2010 at 20:56

    Labour manifesto? Das Kapital?

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  2. Sackerson10 January 2010 at 07:41

    Works of German thinkers generally? Luther, Marx ... is there a Germanic tendency for dangerous intellectualisation?

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  3. Tyrone11 January 2010 at 02:08

    Hey, I don't think anyone would have a problem burning this book...
    Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust
    .

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  4. OldSouth11 January 2010 at 18:25

    Bill Clinton's 'My Story'.

    BHO 'Dreams of My Father'

    That's a good start...

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