What’s the most offensive book you own?

[Orang Utan]

Will have a look when I get home, but I do have a discarded library book by Diana Cooper which is stuffed with amusing nonsense about angels.
I also have a copy of The Gas by Charles Platt, which was banned at some point.
I also used to have Adnan Oktar’s ridiculously sumptuous Atlas Of Creation, which is just glossy photos of fossils and animals juxtaposed against each other to ‘prove’ the case against evolution. Also the heaviest book I’ve ever had. Had to chuck it out when I moved though

 

[Steel Icarus]

I think Mrs SI has a Jamie Oliver cookbook somewhere

 

[Pickman's model]

The bible

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I have an Eoin Colfer book which is offensively bad.

 

[Spandex]

It's probably John Buchan's Complete Richard Hannay.

Cracking adventure tales, but very much reflecting attitudes of the time they were written - regular use of the 'n' word referring to anyone non-European, the speech in The Thirty Nine Steps blaming Jews for the state of the world, the general pro-colonial world view. It would probably be incredibly sexist if more women featured; as it is Mary Lamington is about the only woman in the books and she is presented as boyish enough to catch Hannay's eye.

The Flashman books are similarly offensive, but I guess them being a retrospective pastiche of Victorian attitudes earns them a bit of a pass.

 

[hash tag]

Oh dear, we have an Oliver cook book or two and a Bible or two and can add Mein Kampf to the list.

 

[8ball]

I also used to have Adnan Oktar’s ridiculously sumptuous Atlas Of Creation, which is just glossy photos of fossils and animals juxtaposed against each other to ‘prove’ the case against evolution. Also the heaviest book I’ve ever had.

That's a pretty strong start.
I have The Fermata and used to have The Game.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Under The Roofs of Paris by Henry Miller. A wonderful writer on the rare occasions he managed to drag his mind out of the gutter, but this was not one of those occasions.

 

[The39thStep]

I dont own it but someone left a book on Man Utds treble at the house . I'm going to soak it in old kitchen oil and use it to start the log burner in November

 

[nogojones]

The bible

This.

It's the only book I have that tells me to go and stone my children to death for being a bit chopsy, or that it's cool to kidnap, rape and hold as slaves folks from other nations.

Nothing else I have is half as nasty

 

[Idris2002]

I used to have Bataille's The Story of the Eye. Pornography as written by a very French French intellectual.

 

[killer b]

Margaret Thatcher's The Downing Street Years. Or there's a Robert Mapplethorpe photo book with loads of images of dick torture.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I used to have Bataille's The Story of the Eye. Pornography as written by a very French French intellectual.

So presumably just extremely an graphic description of lunch then.

 

[killer b]

(I've never read the thatch book, I saw it for sale for 10p in a remaindered shop and bought it as an homage to the laws of the free market)

 

[hash tag]

Portrait of an artist as a young girl. Grayson Perry. Don't think I managed to finish it.
Coming Up Trumps by Jean Trumpington. Privideledged Tory who worked here way up to the lords without ever passing a single test.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Someone in this house has a book called 'Quinoa 365' which, I assume, is about what the centrist equivalent of the gulag will be like after Polly Toynbee and George Monbiot have led their glorious relvolution.

 

[Orang Utan]

Portrait of an artist as a young girl. Grayson Perry. Don't think I managed to finish it.

what’s so offensive about it?

 

[wayward bob]

my brother writes both poetry and political commentary. so those, by fucking miles

 

[hash tag]

what’s so offensive about it?

It's years since I went near it and I've tried to forget about it. There was much about his sex life in childhood/teen years. I can't recall that well other than being unpleasant. Much worse than the Wicked Queen, about Marie Antoinette as seen through the pamphlets.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's years since I went near it and I've tried to forget about it. There was much about his sex life in childhood/teen years. I can't recall that well other than being unpleasant. Much worse than the Wicked Queen, about Marie Antoinette as seen through the pamphlets.

Prude

 

[hash tag]

That's one way of putting it. It was just very unsavoury.

 

[chilango]

Probably this...

 

[Orang Utan]

That's one way of putting it. It was just very unsavoury.

If you find that unsavoury, you’re probably some sort of phobe

 

[wayward bob]

oh hang on this is a professional taking offence thread and nothing to do with the thread title

 

[chilango]

Followed by this (for similar reasons)

 

[not-bono-ever]

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[hash tag]

I remember that, followed by suedehead and chopper if I remember rightly.

 

[killer b]

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I picked up a load of the series in a chazzer a bit ago - really grim stuff, and the prose was too turgid to make up for the grimness. Thankfully there's enough sentimental middle-aged skinheads collecting them in the world for me to be able to sell them on ebay for a reasonable amount though, so I did.

 

[not-bono-ever]

yep. i deleted my ppost. its proper bad shit. needed to wash my hands after remembering i still had it.

 

[Clair De Lune]

my brother writes both poetry and political commentary. so those, by fucking miles

Ah in that vein I have a book Written by a girl I used to know on my shelf. It's terrible self aggrandizing wank disguised as a story. I shan't name names. The only reason it's on my book shelf is because I planted it there as an experiment when she popped round with a mate of mine who she saw briefly. The experiment was - how long will it take her to notice her book and what will her reaction be.
Results -20 minutes but only because she'd been too wrapped up in herself to even look around the room till then. And she offered to sign it as I predicted.