Summer Reading List
Jun. 1st, 2005 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pasitheaI bet Ashy has most of these in her library. I should make this my summer reading list.
The 10 most harmful books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
The real question here is 'Harmful to whom?' Let's exclude Mien Kamf, which is thrown in there just as a Godwin to say 'AAAA! Liberals and Feminists are nazis!' and possibly Mao's book too ont he same grounds. What's left and who do these books hurt? Rich white guys?
The 10 most harmful books of the 19th and 20th Centuries
The real question here is 'Harmful to whom?' Let's exclude Mien Kamf, which is thrown in there just as a Godwin to say 'AAAA! Liberals and Feminists are nazis!' and possibly Mao's book too ont he same grounds. What's left and who do these books hurt? Rich white guys?
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Date: 2005-06-01 06:29 pm (UTC)I mean, you'd think dangerous books would be things like the Malleus Maleficarum, which has been directly responsible for human deaths.