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50 Worst Books of the Century

 
 
 
 
 
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bachnwill about 1 month ago

I'm not sure that the compilers of this list are suggesting to us to not read them, but just to read them properly, not just as gospel. For example, Kinsey and Mead for taught in our undergraduate studies in human psychology, but the lecturers would not have a cent of challenge to the veracity of the data collection, interpretation and, of course, inference of their studies.

One who claims to be a progressive would be happy to have her/his ideas challenged, otherwise the progressive becomes the conservative imposer of truth on our human experience.

mlwvdb 3 months ago

Disgusting black spreading his vile racism.

rune2402 4 months ago

Hey read Black Athena. It is very good.

Johnanss you are an idiot and probably very overweight. You should date a black woman. let's face it, they are way sexier than iron board assed white. HEheh.

You do not have to be black to realize that Africa is the spawning ground of all humanity. No Jesus did not have blue eyes and blond hair. Idiot!

rune2402 4 months ago

Maybe the imbecile contesting these books should actually read one of them. No doubt a Rush Limblard fan. Idiots!

minormessageoverload1263 8 months ago

This is a wonderful list; full off good and interesting books. Though i doubt that the person who published this is either one of the writers or aligned to the literature in this list,i would still like to say that i enjoyed reading this list; a lot, and that it is good to find out what i being read on the other side of the oceans.

The prove of the quality of this work is attested by the visiting modernists and liberals who are not able to understand the existence of intellectual conservatism. In fact; it has always been my opinion that a hundred years into the future the only people who will actually still study the marxist and liberalist traditions of the past and present, will be Christians and Classicists; since that leftist elements of society would have turned into nihilism, and destroyed itself.

cornath 10 months ago

A more Republican/Conservative/U ltra-Religious/Ridiculous list could not have been crafted. Thank you for showing how afraid people can really be of free thought. Perhaps you should try reading and understanding a few of these books instead of burning them in effigy.

Marc Vanderloo about 1 year ago

Don't forget to add your own derivative effort. You could have saved a lot of time by writing "I am an apologist for right-wing nonsense and I still fear the Russians".

Litawor about 1 year ago

I hope this list is a joke.

The Multi-Dimensional Man about 1 year ago

While I agree that certain works may have had negative influences on certain groups, and contributed to the ideologies -misguided that they were- of a generation, (as would be the case with Marcuse, Huxley, Leary), I think it is wrong and bordering on ridiculous to classify works like has been done here.
Regardless of the way people chose to interpret these works, they are all vital contributions. Just because some people chose to read Huxley's work as an invitation to recklessly pursue the use of hallucinogens, does not mean that his effort, and his theories are without worth. The same would go for many of the names you have on the list; without Kinsey, who would have liberated sexuality in American life, as something that could be openly discussed; without Reich, who would have challenged the Freudian imperative of instinct suppression?

Surely someone more erudite than myself could find some necessary value in the works you have listed as the 'worst of the century', and in regards to the 'best' list, there are countless names that have been glossed over - how was it evaluated that Eliot, Trilling and the proponents of the New Criticism school are some of the most important contributions to literary study and criticism.

This is a misleading list; but it is thought-provoking, in a narrow sort of way.

Anonymous about 1 year ago

silly