I’ve read fair amount of excellent to totally rubbish books in my life and I’m quite particular about books that end up my shelves. Partly because my book shelves are quite visible and I wouldn’t like to horrify the visitors or my own family with putting every kind of book on the display (the real goodies and absolute junk usually stays in my room). I have quite a few books on Socialism, Marxism, Russian Revolution, Feminism and believe it or not, I had someone asked me if I am a communist. Besides, since I often get people browsing our book shelves, I personally don’t feel right about displaying books I haven’t read, I didn’t like or I cannot talk about with any interest. So here’s my list of unwanted books:
Inflammatory rubbish - The Satanic Verse or anything by Salman Rushdie - I just cannot be bothered.
Teenage vampire romance - Twlight Series
Erotic Romance - 50 Shades of Grey, Lady Chatterley’s lover, Fanny Hill etc.
Celebrity Biographies
Mein Kampf
Novels with miserable heriones
Do you guys a have a list or am I the only book snob here?
You don't have these on your shelf (and have in your room/junk) or you don't have these at all??
No no, I don't own these books at all (well most of them) but I can totally see why you'd asked this question. I didn't make myself clear enough. These are the books you will definitely not see on my shelves, if they are somewhere in my room collecting dust, they'll eventually end up in the nearest charity shop or bin (no, not really lol), well depends on the book.
I only purchased Umera Ahmed’s ‘La-haasil’ even when i hadn’t watched the drama and then someone gave me Peer e Kamil and after that I said she is monotonous and preachy. So no more Umera Ahmed.
After having bad experience with Abdullah Hussain’s ‘Udaas Naslen’ that I purchased some 10 years back and never finished (though people say its no 1 urdu novel), I never looked for Abdullah Hussain’s books. I liked dramatisatio n of his novel Nasheb but that was hard to read in novel form.
Mazhar ul Islam is said to be one of best Urdu short story writer in current time. I purchased his book ‘GuRia ki aankh se shehr ko dekho’ and never dare to go for his other titles.
The list is quite long, but I’ll stop by mentioning Maxim Gorki’s ‘The Mother’. Never tried communist literature after this blunder
I had to give up my book collection when we moved to Canada. I gave everything to a cousin who loves books just as much. I wonder if she kept any of it.
Then I started collecting again but when we changed houses, my mom didn’t want to pay to move all my heavy book boxes so I had to donate a lot of stuff to the local library.
I only purchased Umera Ahmed's 'La-haasil' even when i hadn't watched the drama and then someone gave me Peer e Kamil and after that I said she is monotonous and preachy. So no more Umera Ahmed.
After having bad experience with Abdullah Hussain's 'Udaas Naslen' that I purchased some 10 years back and never finished (though people say its no 1 urdu novel), I never looked for Abdullah Hussain's books. I liked dramatisatio n of his novel Nasheb but that was hard to read in novel form.
Mazhar ul Islam is said to be one of best Urdu short story writer in current time. I purchased his book 'GuRia ki aankh se shehr ko dekho' and never dare to go for his other titles.
The list is quite long, but I'll stop by mentioning Maxim Gorki's 'The Mother'. Never tried communist literature after this blunder
hmm chalen, when you write your auto biography 90 saal ke hokar ... send a free copy to all these writers (if they are still hayaat by then) and let them know how little they influenced you.
waise main mazaaq kar rahi thi, itna tafseeli jawab, nawab sahib!
