What's notable is that every book contains a link to Amazon with the newsletter's referral ID in the URL.
Remember, folks. These books are the most harmful things published in the past 200 years. And we get a 5% kickback if you buy 'em today!
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A conservative newsletter just posted its list of The Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. The list itself is nothing surprising for a rightwing newsletter, with books on communism, socialism, anti-Christian philosophy and evolution.
What's notable is that every book contains a link to Amazon with the newsletter's referral ID in the URL.
Remember, folks. These books are the most harmful things published in the past 200 years. And we get a 5% kickback if you buy 'em today!
What's notable is that every book contains a link to Amazon with the newsletter's referral ID in the URL.
Remember, folks. These books are the most harmful things published in the past 200 years. And we get a 5% kickback if you buy 'em today!
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June 01, 2005 11:29 AM
Well here's *MY* list, in no particular order, of the 10 most damaging books of recent years:
Green Eggs and Ham
Elmo's Big Lift-And-look Book
Barney & Baby Bop Go to the Doctor
Windows Game Programming for Dummies
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
Teletubbies Play Hide-And-Seek!: A Lift-The-Flap Book
G.I. Joe Vs. The Transformers Volume 2
Game Developer's Guide to Cybiko
How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
Curious George
June 01, 2005 11:59 AM
Quote: Remember, folks. These books are the most harmful things published in the past 200 years. And we get a 5% kickback if you buy 'em today!
[lol]
Why didn't these books get nominated? I had a real good laugh at the line in the simpsons where Ned Flanders is reading one of these to rod/tod and closes it up - "And Harry and friends went straight to hell for practicing witchcraft" [lol]
Jack
June 01, 2005 12:00 PM
@TANSTAAFL - have you actually read all of those? Some of them seem, uhm, somewhat below what I'd be expecting a person of your stature to be reading [wink]
Jack
Jack
June 01, 2005 12:02 PM
Quote: I wasn't aware I had a "stature".
Staff > GDNet+ [smile]
That and you write books, right? I've been asked to write books for Premier Press, but I never had the time [sad]. I can't be bothered to check the 100+ books I own, but one on the shelf to my left is "Focus on SDL" that I got given free [wink]
I'd say, at least in GDNet terms, that was "stature" [oh] Or, should I retract my ratings++?
Jack
June 01, 2005 01:43 PM
I specially enjoy the
They were lead by Satan. Hence the red color.
Or somethign like that, I suppose... :)
Quote:
Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820, respectively, (... and so on...). The Evil Empire of the Soviet Union put the Manifesto into practice.
They were lead by Satan. Hence the red color.
Or somethign like that, I suppose... :)
September 27, 2005 05:35 PM
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