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Comment author: buybuydandavis 07 April 2013 04:30:11AM 1 point [-]

I threw in a variety of books in the list, knowing that different people would find different ones horrible. I don't find them all horrible, and which ones I find horrible weren't really the point of the comment.

Yes, there is a difference between historically relevant books and just bad ideas, and I believe later in the thread we discuss that, but I was responding to the "filter out terrible ideas" policy. That's a terrible idea.