Re: Books Banned in Utah.

The Horny Goat wrote:

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:43:28 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
 

I haven't read either of them. Some things you don't have to sample to
know they are trash.

 I dunno - I gave up on Mein Kampf only after 150-200 pages,

At least a hundred farther than I got.  And I probably skimmed most of it.
  completed

the Communist Manifesto

Short and punchy.   One of my HS history teachers was reported to the police for reading it on the subway (they did nothing, the citizen in question had exaggerated the thread posed by a 20 year old student weighting all of 110 pounds).
  and never attempted Das Kapital as it was too

long.

Not intended for a popular audience.

 40 years ago I mentioned in passing that I regularly took a 2 block
detour in my walk home from work to visit the Communist party
bookstore and she panicked though I only went for the chess books many
of which were extremely high quality and relatively low cost.

Lucky you.  All I can recall along that line is a twenty two volume collection of Lenin's writings, priced very affordably.  A decade and a half of exile left him plenty of time to research and write (or as a British Library worker said many years later "Whatever happened to that nice Mr Ulyanov"?).
It was well printed and bound, but I left it there.
I got many of my chess books from Batsford, well printed but definitely not well bound. Appallingly bound, in fact. I still have a pile of loose pages calling itself the collected games of Mikhail Tal.
William Hyde