Book
Genres: banned books - comic books - cult fiction - detective fiction - erotic books - erotic fiction - erotic photography - genre fiction - gothic novel - horror fiction - meta fiction - mystery fiction - novel - picaresque - postmodern novel - pulp fiction - romance - ribaldry - science fiction
The Bookworm (c. 1850) - Carl Spitzweg
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Book burning, May 10, 1933, Berlin
Commenting on the subversive qualities of book reading, Stéphane Mallarmé is quoted as saying "Je ne sais pas d'autre bombe, qu'un livre." (I know of no bomb other than the book.) [Apr 2006]
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Definition
A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book [Sept 2004]Book burning
Book burning is the practice of ceremoniously destroying by fire one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times other forms of media, such as gramophone records, CDs and video tapes, have also been ceremoniously burned or shredded. The practice, often carried out publicly, is usually motivated by moral, political or religious objections to the material. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_burning [Feb 2005]One instance of book burning, not mentioned in the wikipedia, is disco demolition night in the USA, 1979. In stead of books, vinyl disco records were burnt. [Feb 2005]