A Good Old Fashoned Bookburning

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I'm a bit surprised it should fall to me to suggest burning the greater part of L. Ron Hubbard's output. Include Dianetics at your option.

X-Lydia tells me she read it on a dare, and says it creeped her out thoroughly. The book seemed the work of an obsessive madman.

And Battlefield Earth the work of an obsessive madman bereft of an editor.

Works not for burning but perhaps for pillorying: the less mature later work of Piers Anthony, particularly his not-juvie work, the stuff that isn't Xanth -- whose proper demographic is readers between nine and fourteen.

Those are also the kids who should be reading Harry Potter, which is literature. Kid-Lit, yes, but literature nonetheless. Ibram, if through some concatenation of circumstances you should become a father, read this to your kids. You may be in the right place in life for that by then.