What’s the most offensive book you own?

[Nanker Phelge]

What's the offence measure?

 

[bimble]

Protocols of the elders, but was such a cheap shitty print run that the spine has fallen off it so nobody knows.

 

[killer b]

What's the offence measure?

I guess you choose it yourself. I don't think there's a scientific way of doing it .

 

[Saul Goodman]

What's the offence measure?

If it's 'the look on my mother's face', then Roger's Profanisaurus is probably the most offensive book I own.

 

[butcher]

This is it.You feel somehow less for reading it.

 

[Geri]

Not sure about offensive, but I have a book about extreme body modification that probably shouldn't be looked at by children or anyone who is squeamish.

 

[Spymaster]

Not particularly offensive but certainly rather surprising in a WTF? way.

When my old man died I inherited all his books among which was a copy of The Joy of Sex. Nothing wrong with that so I had a look through it and found he had made loads of notes in the margins and highlighted hundreds of pieces like it was a study text.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

If it's 'the look on my mother's face', then Roger's Profanisaurus is probably the most offensive book I own.

I have that. Some deep profanity in there.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Not particularly offensive but certainly rather surprising in a WTF? way.

When my old man died I inherited all his books among which was a copy of The Joy of Sex. Nothing wrong with that so I had a look through it and found he had made loads of notes in the margins and highlighted hundreds of pieces like it was a study text.

That's good. Studious. Bet he was a right raver.

 

[agricola]

St Augustine's The City of God - its just self-exculpating tosh on every concievable level; a collection of fifth century lines to take for people who had wrecked the classical world.

 

[wayward bob]

i've nothing against my bro in the scheme of things. but if there's two things i don't ever want to know it's his innermost feelings and political opinions

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Thomas the Bleeding Tank Engine. By page three you’ve nearly died of boredom, and there’s still scores more of stories to go. The offence is ultimate boredom.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

You Are What You Eat by "Dr" Gillian McKeith

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I used to have a copy of the Marquis de Sade's Justine which might be considered rather unsavoury in places.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Mein Kampf. Its shit.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

If it's 'the look on my mother's face', then Roger's Profanisaurus is probably the most offensive book I own.

There's one laugh-out-loud gem for every 50 or more entries of
repetitive laddishness and sexism. They are the true offence

 

[StoneRoad]

Most of the Old Testament, Koran and the Talmud are pretty unsavoury pieces of writing and generally offensive to many modern people.

Suggesting such things as enslaving foreigners, stoning adulterers and homosexuals to death, 'eye for an eye' type punishments, beating children and women.

 

[Saul Goodman]

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

Ooh, you have a first edition. That might be worth a few bob

 

[Proper Tidy]

My brother bought me a stalin book (by him not about him) too years ago, think it was about the patriotic war, somebody (presumably not big joe) had signed the inside cover but it was impossible to tell who as it was all yellowed and watermarked and manky. Presumably some old CPGB head or something. Never got round to trying to read it and lost it in a house move at some point.

 

[mx wcfc]

I used to have a copy of the Marquis de Sade's Justine which might be considered rather unsavoury in places.

Me too. I bought it when it was first legalised, with the justification that as it had been banned it must be worth reading. It was "a little bit over the top" in places.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I used to own a thriller written in the 70s called the Chilian Club - a daily mailesque wank fantasy where the "heroes" go about murdering left wing trade union leaders and carrying out reactionary vigilante justice on pop stars, football fans and (black) muggers.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Me too. I bought it when it was first legalised, with the justification that as it had been banned it must be worth reading. It was "a little bit over the top" in places.

I found a paperback in a charity shop of all places!

I thought it was interesting. Not really offensive but that was of course through 20th century eyes.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I took killing rage by eamon collins on holiday to lassi in cephalonia and got called a cunt by some fella by the pool

 

[JuanTwoThree]

In the sense of a possible criminal offence, who's got an Anarchist Cookbook kicking around?

 

[ska invita]

Not particularly offensive but certainly rather surprising in a WTF? way.

When my old man died I inherited all his books among which was a copy of The Joy of Sex. Nothing wrong with that so I had a look through it and found he had made loads of notes in the margins and highlighted hundreds of pieces like it was a study text.

Did he have a beard?
And pics please

 

[Proper Tidy]

I thought I downloaded it once but it was just lots of stuff about lentils

 

[ska invita]

I thought I downloaded it once but it was just lots of stuff about lentils

yeah theres two. I think the cookbook tried to cash in on the fame of the bomb one.

 

[GreenDog]

Definitely this. Urrggghhhhhhh! And there are several 'dodgy books' knocking around.

 

[LDC]

In the sense of a possible criminal offence, who's got an Anarchist Cookbook kicking around?

No, but many years ago I used to have a few books of that ilk from Paladin Press that were guerilla warfare nonsense largely written by lunatics in the US dreaming of a Red Dawn type scenario.

Not sure now, would need a definition of offensive. A few that are mildly shocking maybe...?

 

[Proper Tidy]

I also remember finding the unabomber manifesto on an old laptop, didn't remember downloading it and never read it