I thought I loved books

[dreamland]

I was at our town pool where they had shelves of free books for the public to take and read at their leisure. As usual, I'm always looking for an interesting book to read, when a few titles popped out at me - "Arguing with Idiots", "N is for Noose", "A Nation of Strangers", and "Dark Side of Camelot". I'm not familiar with these books except that the titles struck me as disturbing and, with the exception of Glenn Beck, am not familiar with any of the authors. I did the unthinkable. I took those books and threw them in the garbage without knowing the content of these books. From someone whose love for books, does not even extend towards bending a corner of even a textbook, this was a dastardly act. I just hope I picked the right books out but I couldn't bear to see such titles sitting next to children's books.

[janterry]

1. I think N is for Noose is okay

I don't read those sorts of books, either, but I had a mini library for my guys in prison and those were Sue Grafton books - pretty popular crime novel series.

[Ohiogal]

2. "N is for Noose"

is a Sue Grafton mystery featuring female PI Kinsey Millhone .... I love her books and have read all of them .... I'm sorry you threw that one away.

Maybe they could have separated the books into Adult and Childrens' sections. I am troubled that you threw away books that you knew nothing about, though!

[dreamland]

4. I am not familiar with the author, I found her title disturbing.

N/t

[enough]

3. Is destroying books without knowing their content a positive or useful action? NT

[dreamland]

5. I don't normally throw any book away

but rather prefer to donate them to the local libraries. Just that these titles seemed to promote an alt-right thinking that I didn't want anyone to read them. I prefer that people can read both viewpoints and have a better understanding of world views; it just seems to me that doesn't work, (even for myself as I am comforted here at DU), that I didn't feel it good to promote any propaganda materials so I threw them out.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Throwing a book away based on the title without bothering to read the blurb

is beyond disturbing. Not sure where you've been all these years that you'd never come across the Sue Grafton alphabet series, of which N is for Noose is 14th one.

She died last year having only made it to the letter Y, to the intense regret of all of her fans.

A Nation of Strangers, by Vance Packard, is somewhat dated as it came out in 1972 is essentially a look at the continual isolation of people in our culture. A more recent book, Bowling Alone, covers the same topic. Vance Packard is another author you ought to have heard of, wrote any number of books, the best known of which would be The Hidden Persuaders.

At the risk of repeating myself, throwing out books you know NOTHING about because of the title, without taking at least a brief dip into them, is simply wrong.

[Ula]

7. I dont want to throw away my books

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