List of Most Dangerous Books?

[Starba]

So I was bumming around online, reading some guy's blog, when I found something rather fun to ponder. In 2005, the journal Human Events published a list of the most dangerous books of the 19th and 20th centuries. Now, I suppose it should be first clarified that Human Events is a conservative journal, which answers some of the "whys" of which books were entered onto the list. But when I asked myself what books I might put on the list, I inevitably was confronted with the question of just what it means for a book to be dangerous, and realized that, wow, that's an interesting question. So I brought it here, for you. What books would YOU put on your list of the "10 Most Dangerous Books of All Time"? More importantly, why? Here's the original:

http://filingcabinetofthedamned.blog...ful-books.html
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=7591

Or, y'know, discuss the original list. Whichever works.

[AbstractOrigin]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

Shouldn't "The anarchist's cookbook" be up there?

Forgive me if I'm wrong.

[Manyak]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

Dangerous books?

OH **** HE HAS A COPY OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO RUN RUN OH GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE

[Smurvis]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

Anything from this website: http://www.scholastic.com/

Because KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

[jvrlopez]

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The Turner Diaries.

[Starba]

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It's scary how much the synopses of the books at the Human Events website read like a script ripped from The Colbert Report. The descriptions are supposed to be reason enough for a discerning reader to know why the book was placed on the list, although the list simultaneously bashes the Clinton administration and the current record national deficit. Eh, whatever.

I don't think Quotations from Chairman Mao and similar books weren't dangerous, though. When their text is essentialized and becomes reason for neighbors to turn on neighbors and mobs to drag doctors and writers from their homes like criminals, then, yes, I think the book can be dangerous. But I also am not so arrogant as to think that the only thing that separated the pre-revolution and post-revolution death toll in Russia and China was something other than more entrenched macro- and micro-institutions working together to balance each other. The Soviet Union was not an evil empire, much less an Evil Empire, in comparison to what existed before or after. Yeesh.

[The Dark Jester]

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For some reason I was expecting to see Satanic Verses by that Rushdie D00d.

[Starba]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

I thought it was just Muslims who were up in arms about The Satanic Verses, because it dissed on the Qur'an and all. If anyone dies over it for real, it'll probably just be Salman Rushdie.

[Alex]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

There are no dangerous books. Just dangerous authors and dangerous readers.

Please.

[Armored]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

The necronomicon was pretty dangerous, I mean it raised the undead and everything in the Evil Dead series. Caused Bruce Campbell quite the trouble.

[John Mora]

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Why isn't the Old Testament, New Testament, OR Quran (Koran, etc.) on that list?

I'd be interested in sitting down with the Kinsey Report one day.

[Zieg Rauros]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

I think the Cookbook should be up there. Should people rather have the knowledge of sex or the knowledge to put out the phonelines of a few area codes?

LETS THINK!

[Starba]

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I assume that the reason the Qur'an isn't on the list is because that would insinuate that other similar books belong, too. And we can't have that.

[Chrome Homura]

Re: List of Most Dangerous Books?

And we can't have that.

WHY?

[tjoris9]

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The entire DC area is overrun with these unnatural half-men, sewn together from cadavers and infused with life drawn from the heavens.

Hey! Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove, Bush and Dole have feelings, too! The proper term is "vitally-challenged".

If Fatal Insanity were a book, it would be number 1. I heard the game may be banned by the U.N. due to several thousand cases of cranial implosion. Bush is planning a tactical nuclear strike on Montana as we speak.