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Fiction is full of deadly, cursed tomes, but what about real life? Can a book ever actually hurt you?
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@TheTaleFoundry 26 дней назад

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@fraise-ob7it 26 дней назад

Hi! Love your videos!

@Zandaarl 26 дней назад

Thanks for the second warning at 7:12 - but it's actually referring to the incorrect timestamp to skip to: it reads 7:37 but probably should be 8:37.

@bleakautomaton4808 26 дней назад

I'm certain that the anarchists cookbook is left on amazon so they have a digital record of who bought it when. Just a guess though.

@seriousmaran9414 26 дней назад

I thought it was going to include Liz Truss' latest book...😊

@banthatracks_gaffisticks 26 дней назад

You said, "leather bound" like it isn't human skin. 😂

@inkchariot6147 26 дней назад

What do you call an evil book that tries to eat you? A Necro-nomnomnom-icon.

@Zandaarl 26 дней назад

There actually is a cookbook with (almost) that name.

@Dragnarok1 26 дней назад

@@Zandaarl The necronomnomnom

@dubuyajay9964 26 дней назад

@Zandaarl Link plz?

@Dragnarok1 26 дней назад

@@dubuyajay9964 look up the necronomnomnom

@mrcroob8563 26 дней назад

@@dubuyajay9964 google?

@arjunsajith2198 26 дней назад

Any book can kill you if you're unlucky enough

@NixityNullt 26 дней назад

Me: goes to old library Book that hasn't been opened in 30 years: Curse of black mold!

@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 26 дней назад

True

@GIBBO4182 26 дней назад

You’re*

@dubuyajay9964 26 дней назад

Bonk. D:

@arjunsajith2198 26 дней назад

@@GIBBO4182 fixed it

@LaussseTheCat 26 дней назад

The Necromicon just sounds like the Terraria Wiki, "Contains knowledge of Eldritch Entities, How to beat them and how to summon them".

@Luna-we4yc 26 дней назад

YESSSS

@tatuvarvemaa5314 26 дней назад

It basically is actually. Thats a perfect description of the book, an Eldrich wikipedia.

@karolinaj5045 26 дней назад

People just go straight to summoning without bothering to read about beating

@JStainto 25 дней назад

the title means “dead name book” or maybe “book of dead names”

@hexretro8112 25 дней назад

@@JStainto If you look at the end of the book you will see a list of citations and chain links with the name of the respective source.

@Gamer8585 26 дней назад

2 ways a book can kill you: 1) the knowledge in it being a cogito hazard 2) by moving fast enough.

@nabra97 26 дней назад

Some commenters also mantioned that if said book is particularly old, it can contain dangerous amount of Arsenic or black mold. I would also mantion that it can be so dusty that it can trigger asthma attack in some people

@pedroff_1 25 дней назад

Or, rather, by moving fast enough then suddenly stopping on you

@prapanthebachelorette6803 25 дней назад

Well said 😂

@SEAZNDragon 25 дней назад

@@pedroff_1 Not just speed but also weight. I have no fear of a dime store paperback. But a medieval tome as big as a person? I probably won't be taking it off the shelf without wearing a helmet.

@thebaseandtriflingcreature174 25 дней назад

@@nabra97yeah, see option 1.) the mold and arsenic is the real eldritch secrets of the book!

@placeholderdoe 26 дней назад

The turner diary ban and the anarchist cookbook lack of ban in Canada makes for an interesting statement. “Telling someone how to build a bomb is less dangerous than giving someone a reason to.”

@mrmrdoor9256 25 дней назад

That statement is very true

@mEmory______ 25 дней назад

The Anarchist Cookbook starts off with the authors political beliefs critical of the US government.

@WobblesandBean 25 дней назад

@@mEmory______ ...Were you even listening to the part about the Turner Diaries?

@mEmory______ 25 дней назад

@WobblesandBean what about them? I just thought that since the above comment implied that the Cookbook had no political ideas or reasons I would point out that it wasn't the case.

@placeholderdoe 25 дней назад

@@mEmory______ i wasn’t trying to imply that. My main point was that a book centered around “here’s why we should do this” can be more dangerous than a book that is centered around “here is how to do this” at least at extremes like bombings and stuff. My belief from this video that the Turner Diaries is generally more politically motivating to the group it is trying to appeal to. Or the groups that agree with it

@MrocnyZbik 26 дней назад

"This Book Will Kill You" And that is why kids the Librarian is an Orangutan.

@hiya-de5hd 26 дней назад

Terry Pratchett?

@MrocnyZbik 26 дней назад

@@hiya-de5hd Hell yeah

@edrozenrozen9600 26 дней назад

Hahaha.... Love that reference!

@chibiktsn3 26 дней назад

Ook!

@WobblesandBean 25 дней назад

Some errant magic transformed him, and he has passionately resisted any attempt to change him back. Can't say I blame him.

@czarcoma 26 дней назад

Well, John Wick did kill that big Russian dude in the library by smashing a book between his jaws.

@marcusrauch4223 25 дней назад

knowledge is power

@salvit6024 25 дней назад

@@marcusrauch4223 “knowledge is power” So is John Wick.

@czarcoma 25 дней назад

@@salvit6024 I would guess John Wick is this generation's Chuck Norris! 🤣

@ShockwaveDawn 22 дня назад

Boban is a really nice guy!

@MySerpentine 25 дней назад

I think the most dangerous thing about the Anarchist's Cookbook might well be the bits that are *almost* right but will probably get you killed.

@ltcaphide 25 дней назад

yeah there is a surprising amount of straight up false information in there that can end up looking like a suicide if you do them

@lightborn9071 25 дней назад

First lesson of how to handle a weapon: How do I not kill myself

@andrewdreasler428 24 дня назад

That sounds like "Darwin passages," aka, a method for keeping [those who do not look to secondary sources to confirm information] from fully using the contents of the book. If you trust primary sources without question, you are NOT a leader in the revolution, you are but a pawn in somebody else's game, and pawns are expendable.

@MySerpentine 24 дня назад

@@andrewdreasler428 And if you don't have access to any other sources?

@talesofgore9424 24 дня назад

@@MySerpentine then enjoy your banandine, comrade

@Daemonworks 26 дней назад

There's also the case of books made with arsenic, either to produce brilliantly coloured covers or, in one case, to drive home how dangerous arsenic-based dyes in wallpaper, clothing, etc were. The latter was sold with a "do not let children touch this" warning. And arsenic never degrades, so they're exactly as toxic as they day they were made.

@WobblesandBean 25 дней назад

I will never fail to be gobsmacked at the sheer stupidity of people, especially kids. "Hey, don't touch this, it will literally kill you." kids:

@kotzpenner 25 дней назад

@@WobblesandBean*puts into mouth*

@brianroberts783 24 дня назад

At first, I thought that's what this video was about.

@ccvcharger 4 дня назад

@@brianroberts783same, imagine my disappointment when it wasn’t mentioned at all.

@utubeiskaren7796 3 дня назад

In case anyone in the replies to this comment is wondering the book in question was called "Shadows of the Walls of Death" and I know this because a different comment on this video mentioned it

@FranBunnyFFXII 26 дней назад

NGL The quality of these videos legit reminds me of broadcast educational television like on PBS. I'm genuinely very impressed at how high quality the animations and illustrations are for these videos. I've learned a lot from this channel but I am never not amazed by how quality everything is in these videos.

@EksaStelmere 26 дней назад

Way better than PBS too.

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

I haven't seen anything this good on PBS since I was 16.

@bingerz237 26 дней назад

The Necronomicon is the kind of book that opens you more than you open it.

@DracoMagnius 22 дня назад

In Deep R'lyeh book read you!

@waltermoldren4991 4 дня назад

My uncle opened me.

@localvega688 День назад

Just like the box of ravishment.

@marandadavis9412 26 дней назад

"Shadows of the Walls of Death" can literally kill you if you don't handle it with gloves because it contains samples of various arsenic containing wallpaper. There are also some emerald green books that used arsenic to color their book covers.

@08techgrad 25 дней назад

I've seen it at the MSU art museum.

@Spooglecraft 25 дней назад

in a similar vein, marie curies diary is sealed away with her corpse, as both are still heavily irradiated.

@Benjanuva 26 дней назад

Banning books honestly just makes me want to read them more.

@FairbrookWingates 25 дней назад

The only reason I've not found a copy of Anarchists Cookbook is because the author genuinely regrets publishing it and asks people not to buy/sell/read the book. Since my impulse to own or read a banned book is a freedom of speech matter, I'll respect the wishes of the one who's speech this book represents.

@libertycowboy2495 25 дней назад

I try to own a copy of every book actually banned.

@KuronoCthulhu 25 дней назад

@@FairbrookWingates Look around garage sales, you could probably find one already in circulation. Not perfect, but it's a partial solution.

@gracequach6769 18 дней назад

I thought I, being the nosy little sucker that I am, would be the same. But noooope :P When a local bookstore had a banned book sale (that they very loudly advertised as having been obtained through off-the-grid means, like donations and rummage sales and not Amazon or smth), I wasn't interested in the least. Not even when the owner who, for the record, I know and (somewhat) trust, asked me if I wanted to take a peek. The fanfare around the books being banned made me feel like they all suck and their only selling point is morbid curiosity.

@manofmartin 14 дней назад

All these books are online. Sail the high seas, and you'll find the treasure you seek.

@Audrey-zf8mn 25 дней назад

The King in Yellow being 'too moving' really resonated with me. I have extreme anxiety, so if I read a book that's especially thought-provoking, I sometimes physically hurt with the intensity of the whirlwind in my head. I still read them, though. I understand why The King in Yellow would still be so sought-after despite the ban on it.

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

On a gentler scale, this is one reason why bad movies continue to survive in the face of better ones: sometimes one doesn't want to have your heart broken in a movie theater, one just wants to relax for a few hours and look at something pretty... and crudely cathartic.

@xclucvt 6 дней назад

Having read it, there's really nothing to it as the short stories in the first part are just stories of how the book "The King in Yellow" affected them or someone close to them. Nothing truly mind-altering or horrific. Eerie, yes, but more obscure and Lovecraftian, which I understand is where Lovecraft got his inspiration.

@Alyrael 26 дней назад

I'm surprised Nami no Tou wasn't brought up briefly, as much like the effect The Sorrows had, this novel may have supposedly been what further pushed people to see the lonely Aokigahara forest as a place to die, eventually creating its own popular folklore.

@talesofgore9424 24 дня назад

yeah I like Nami too esp. when she control the weather.

@carminedesanto6746 26 дней назад

The pen is mightier than the sword…but you gotta hold it just right 😵‍💫

@danielcrafter9349 25 дней назад

According to Pratchett "... but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp"

@sophiezhang2485 25 дней назад

Or if you are John Wick.

@localvega688 День назад

John Wick? Is that you?

@Liambic 26 дней назад

The line, "Ideas are slippery, they can happen in unexpected places whether intended or not" really hit me. Well done, TF.

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

"Honey, Fred's ideas are... dangerous." "But Mom, all he wants to do is be left alone, and not have to give half of what he grows to the Council." "What your mother means is, if you don't stop trying to defend Fred, the Council will come after *you* next. And unlike Fred, they can come and take you away, any time they want."

@localvega688 День назад

I was thinking the same.

@javierpaz7954 25 дней назад

This can actually start a debate about how we are promoting the society to become childish and the dangers that come with that. Specially places like RU-vid, where you could get demonetized for saying a word the algorithm doesn't like.

@Ray-op7xc 14 дней назад

Right? Its almost like the content of the books itself isnt the problem💀

@williamerickson520 7 дней назад

This argument has been ongoing for decades (I remember such arguments growing up in the '80's). We just need to amplify it and not let it be ignored.

@TheSunshineBlak 25 дней назад

A friend of mine that went to an all girls highschool had some english lessons examining the writings of charles manson. The goal of these lessons was to teach critical thinking and how to identify the ways the author would manipulate young women. A worrying number of girls in that class walk away thinking that charles manson was charming and had a good point.

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

I would want to lay some groundwork before doing something like that. I guess, though, Manson's message was custom-optimized for that audience, so maybe just no. Also, they always have a good point, that's how they convince people to follow them, and how they hide all their bad points.

@someblaqguy 26 дней назад

In Unordinary, there is a banned book by the same name. The book inspires people to become "vigilanties," which is something that is in direct odds with the in universe societal power structure. It's a good story, not perfect, yet i do find it rather entertaining.

@amegenshiken 25 дней назад

Just in case anyone reading OP's comment doesn't know yet, "Unordinary" (aside from an in-universe banned book) is a Korean web comic available to (legally) read on Webtoon [yes, even in English].

@talesofgore9424 24 дня назад

@@amegenshiken ooh I love Webtoon and Tower of God.

@tjbonnes4936 26 дней назад

Immediately reminded of one of my favorite "South Park" episodes: "The Tale of Scroty McBoogerballs" "The Catcher in the Rye" is taken off South Park Elementary ban list and while reading it, our main cast of four find the book lackluster. They then write a book so juvenile and crass most people can't read it without an intense visceral reaction. The rest of the episode deals with things like how one gets a book banned and the will of the artist vs. The interpretation of the audience.

@localvega688 День назад

I need to watch that episode!

@08techgrad 25 дней назад

There's a book called "Shadows From the Walls Of Death" with wallpaper samples that contain enough arsenic that warrant specialized containment. My brother and I saw it on display at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum. It was in a protective case to protect visitors.

@ccvcharger 4 дня назад

Imagine that, an artifact kept in a case not to prevent it from being stolen, but to prevent it from harming whoever might touch it.

@superspider64 26 дней назад

12:34 one fascinating example of "Writer makes something that the fans interperate in a different way" is Rorschach from the Watchmen series, I can't remember the exact details sadly but Alan Moore's original interperitations of the character as a deconstructive parody of characters like Mr. A and The Question, a character meant to mock those objectivist Blacka and White morality. But in spite of his ridicule, readers and watchers of the Watchmen series fell in love with the character and propped him up in ways that Moore was shocked to see

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

A good cautionary tale for those who create strawmen... and for anyone who wants to start writing parody or satire.

@karihigada1872 26 дней назад

its interesting you mentioned goethe's werther! im from germany, i remember my high school literature teacher telling us that some years before our school time (so around early or mid 2000s i think?) a girl from our school killed herself (threw herself off a local tower monument) cause she was heatbroken due to werther. take it with a grain of salt if it was really cause of werther, but she did kill herself. just something i still remember, so it was interesting hearing it here as well.

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

Yes, that smells folkloric, but even if it is, it'd be a sort of social commentary on how poorly our society fosters our children's _emotional_ maturity.

@jonleonard1555 26 дней назад

Necronomicon in Evil Dead tries to bite you.

@nicholaspeters9919 26 дней назад

Well, one of the fake ones anyway. When dealing with the Necronomicon, always make sure you don’t pick up the wrong book.

@LessThanLucid 25 дней назад

"KLAATU... BARATA... [cough] necktie! [cough]" --Ash

@eveleynce 25 дней назад

putting the Nom in necronomicon

@jesusromanpadro3853 24 дня назад

I have never considered Lovecraft's Necronomicon and the Evil Dead's Necronomicons (3 books) to be the same books. But that just me.

@kingsora84 18 дней назад

@@nicholaspeters9919 apparantly, they werent fake,but all of them are spread in parallel universes

@therongjr 26 дней назад

"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" does NOT include any recipes for explosives or anything like that!

@FelicityUwU 26 дней назад

What does it have?

@devinward461 26 дней назад

@@FelicityUwU it's more of an environmentalist ideological manifesto iirc

@thegamesforreal1673 26 дней назад

@@FelicityUwUI'm about 2/3rds of the way through the book. So far, it's mostly building a case for why the insistence to stay non-violent within the environmentalist movement may actually be detrimental to its cause. It argues that the climate crisis is potentially one of the greatest crises humanity has ever faced, and that more violence has been instigated by protestors, activists and rebels for much less severe threats. It also argues that having a more extremist and militant side of a movement aids in accomplishing the more moderate goals, and it cites examples in the american civil rights movement, the ending of apartheid in south africa, and more. It never outright explains how to actually blow up a pipeline.

@placeholderdoe 26 дней назад

@@thegamesforreal1673 a tree was killed for that book on violent climate protests and it won’t even tell me what it promised me to? SMH dude, clickbate really did exist back then

@huntclanhunt9697 26 дней назад

@@thegamesforreal1673 It's funny though because if they try to use violence people will use violence against them and they'll lose.

@colterbrown3679 26 дней назад

A very delicate subject handled gently and impartially. I am genuinely impressed, and quite relieved that you were able to tackle this subject as well as you were. VERY good video.

@bigfishymushy 25 дней назад

Thank you for this one, as slippery and delicate as this topic is. So many people who approach it with the message of trying to tell others "what to think". Rather, this is very refreshing and heart warming that in the end, what you ask is for people "to think"

@maggintons 26 дней назад

After seeing the bit about The Catcher in the Rye I think I now know why so many news sites began scaremongering about the movie Joker so much.

@talesofgore9424 24 дня назад

those news sites were trying to wishcast a Joker movie mass shooting into manifesting for some reason. One of the big humor websites (Cracked? ) called them out on it.

@DracoMagnius 22 дня назад

@talesofgore9424 They wanted a mass shooting so they could milk it for ratings and most likely push a narrative that movies like the Joker were bad for America and it's people, "This movie caused a shooting! We should ban it and ignore any ideas it might put in people's heads!"

@localvega688 День назад

That is very apt.

@kaiburrus3190 26 дней назад

The most dangerous book I knew of before this was Malleus Maleficarum. The book that fanned the fire of the witch trials.

@jonberg5331 18 дней назад

You naver heard of the book hitler wrote?

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

That was the first book I thought of, in the line of properly dangerous real-world books!

@localvega688 День назад

@@jonberg5331 I thought for sure that was the book our robot friend was going to mention rather than that Turner one.

@ShawnRavenfire 25 дней назад

Another "dangerous" book example could be "The Neverending Story," which sucks the reader into its own fictional world, and gradually causes you to forget your real life. (In a way, it's kind of similar to Neverland, but in book form.)

@Vinemaple 6 дней назад

I have never seen the Neverending Story described like that, I don't remember there being any serious warnings given to Bastien in the novel, doesn't the bookseller just hand it to him? This is a seriously underrated comment, I'd love to see some property like The Librarians or the SCP Wiki do a shout out by giving a line or two to the "real" Neverending Story, locked away so it can't suck anyone in. (No, don't go and make an SCP about it, that's not how the SCP Wiki works, they no longer accept tribute SCPs)

@tomkatt8274 3 дня назад

@@Vinemaple the multiverse is so huge, its inevitable that you would be fiction in some universes.

@tntkff9901 26 дней назад

"This book will kill you. "How?" "It's being held by John Wick." "😳😳😳"

@localvega688 День назад

Any book held by John Wick > The Necronomicon

@theboythatdraws 26 дней назад

0:27 love the use of the evil dead necronomicon

@enderziad8411 26 дней назад

"This book will kill you!" "That just makes it better😀"

@MrDowntemp0 25 дней назад

Harvard has a book with nothing but wallpaper samples in it. Might actually be the deadliest book, or at least the most dangerous. It's called Shadows from the walls of death (awesome title!) Everything is an eerie green. That green pigment, comes from arsenic. Not what the video was about, but it did feel like it was a notable exception.

@luisjauregui2197 25 дней назад

Haven't seen the whole video but I have to say that "The Book Thief" immediately commes to mind, as it is a story about the power of words and their danger, specially by emphasizing the way that Hitler used words to cultivate his regime of hatred during World War II.

@artistpoet5253 26 дней назад

Most times I'm less than appreciative of ad spots at the end of videos but yours are actually soothing to listen to especially after a video like this one. It's so true than banning a book really only elevates it's notoriety and often times just applying a bit more academic understanding and some context can sort it out fine. I am reminded, however, on the topic of restricting access to objectionable content and tools of violence; we'll just find some other way to crudely display our ugly, broken sense of self.

@huntclanhunt9697 26 дней назад

Don't make the pipe bomb in the cookbook. It is not measured right and will blow up in your face. Same for the flamethrower.

@ardugaleen2231 26 дней назад

Thx man, it's honestly gonna be useful theese days. The pipebpmb part that is. Idk abt the flamme thrower much

@rmb6037 25 дней назад

@@ardugaleen2231 whatever you're planning, do not

@milimii4011 25 дней назад

I live in Germany, here “Mein Kampf” (Hitlers diary) is rightfully banned but the commentated version is even read in some schools (History class) so I think that just proves the point here :)

@localvega688 День назад

I disagree with it ever being right to ban a book. That said, I am glad schools are at least using the commentated versions to warn of the dangers of evil people in power.

@2di0pictures10 25 дней назад

"A book can't kill you" SCP-3023: ...right.

@DigitalGhost269 26 дней назад

Ideology always determines if a book is dangerous not content

@mackthisarrowhearth295 26 дней назад

The most scareing story I have read, or more played actually, was "Hello Charlotte". It does something really weird with you, it combines feelings of spirituality with mass suicide... It is scary af.

@greenhydra10 24 дня назад

Been watching a playthrough of it. Haven't finished it yet but OH BOY. It's got some rough stuff in there and is only pretending to be slightly subtle.

@Starlight-Tale 21 день назад

I didn’t expect to see another Hello Charlotte fan in the comments here, but I thought of my experiences with that game while watching this too. While I love that game, and I think I can say that I and most people I know can approach the game with enough critical discernment to recognize the difference between depiction and endorsement, I can definitely see how some of the more sensitive topics could be acted on harmfully if not handled carefully.

@ObsidianFallen 25 дней назад

We seem to confuse the difference between banned and limited or restricted. Some "banned" books are just age restricted, but people ignore that fact to make their point.

@jameshart2622 23 дня назад

More than a few book "bans" are, in all sincerity and honesty, actually about curriculum. There's a world of difference between banning a book, and promoting it as a worthwhile source of information. Trust me, I have _no_ doubt that I would very much hate some of the book "bans", thinking that the book really, really should be part of the curriculum. Still, I wish people would be honest about what is actually happening.

@sigiligus 2 дня назад

The biggest trick people pull is to claim that a book being removed from the compulsory reading list for some 5th grade class in a single rural Kentucky school is the same as “OH MY GOD THEY’RE BURNING BOOKS AND DISAPPEARING PEOPLE WHO TRY TO READ THEM AAAAHHHH!”

@localvega688 День назад

Age restricting is still a form of banning.

@ObsidianFallen День назад

@@localvega688 Restricted means limited in extent, number, scope, or action. Prohibited means that has been forbidden; banned.

@localvega688 День назад

@@ObsidianFallen That is what banned means. Even the "Approved" people are allowed to read the banned books. It's "Rules for thee, but not for me". 👑

@aquabomb1708 25 дней назад

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I concede, just subbed.

@mrshelby4682 6 дней назад

they recommend him so often, Hell, i thought i was subscribed O_o

@localvega688 День назад

Already have. I love his work

@MarushiaDark316 24 дня назад

An interesting thing to note about "Catcher In The Rye" being included in this list is that it was also used as a major plot device in the "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" anime wherein the hacker known as The Laughing Man uses a line from the book as part of his logo. He goes on to inspire other copycats as well, all of whom adopt the same emblem as a meme. There's a part in the series where the detectives of Section 9 even refer to "The Salinger Angle" as a hypothesis for the true motives and methods behind The Laughing Man's actions and use that as a means of tracking him down.

@kyleespinoza7201 26 дней назад

I think this to me highlights how powerful knowledge and perspective together truly are. Any information learned or reflected on can profoundly influence how someone sees the world, others and themselves. But changing perspective in turn influences how we interact with the world, others and ourselves. For better or worse...

@slushthefox1234 26 дней назад

The Anarchist Cookbook is a great book to un-alive yourself. Many recipies are more dangerous for the reader than the actual target.

@EgyptianGhost11 25 дней назад

"How to think critically so the text doesn't decide our feelings for us" What an amazing line. I have read so many books in my years that have made me feel uncomfortable because I knew the author was pushing their ideaoligy hard through the characters and events. So that line really resonated with me.

@syrenet 25 дней назад

I'd argue there is no dangerous books out there, just dangerous people.

@localvega688 День назад

Exactly this!

@user-qn2bg7zb9s 25 дней назад

I love Maths, so the idea of a Black Theorem, some piece of maths that shatter minds is so cool

@foldertim 25 дней назад

Cool

@thezipcreator 23 дня назад

SCP-033 is kind of like that. It proves the existence of a previously unknown integer, named θ', that completely breaks all computing devices if it's integrated with them.

@localvega688 День назад

You mean the Anti-Life Equation?

@user-qn2bg7zb9s 18 часов назад

@@localvega688 Or Alien Geometries from other dimensions, described by Eldritch Equations that have new number systems too complex for the human mind. Lovecraft had a fear of Maths, but I'd be looking for such anomalies

@arturoaguilar6002 25 дней назад

15:18 A book that everyone was assigned to read in high school? Statistically speaking, I would be surprised if it didn't have a body count associated to it. By the way, from my favorite list of books that kill comes the one in **spoilers** The Name of the Rose: a book with its pages coated with a deadly poison, so anyone who might read it would die before being able to divulge its contents.

@localvega688 День назад

That can't be a real book. Books are made to be read.

@OmegaChip 26 дней назад

Hermaeus Mora wants to: know the books location

@williamerickson520 7 дней назад

My god will not be denied. 🤪

@TheMrCougarful 26 дней назад

In addition to lethal books, there are lethal ideas, not all of which are limited to books.

@jasonsgroovemachine 11 дней назад

"Rage" is legit an excellent book. I understand why King pulled it, but it was an excellent read. Would absolutely recommend.

@ShawnRavenfire 25 дней назад

In the movie "Conspiracy Theory," there's a subliminal implant in brainwashed sleeper agents to keep buying copies of "Catcher in the Rye," so that if one of their agents goes rogue, they can look for anyone recently buying a copy of it. Also, there's an episode of "South Park," where the boys write a book called "The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs," which everyone in town sees as a masterpiece, reading messages into it that were never intended, satirizing people's reactions to "Catcher in the Rye."

@thetux459 26 дней назад

Was expecting a Malleus Maleficarum mention, as its kind of the real world inverse of the Necronomicon.

@Phobias124 26 дней назад

This reminds me of a song that was banned because suicides spiked whenever it was played on the radio. It was a sad song and apparently made a lot of people very sad and depressed. They talked about it on QI if you're interested, that's where I heard of it.

@AbstractStew 25 дней назад

Was it Gloomy Sunday?

@asherdegraaf2697 25 дней назад

I was thinking about a song too, a totally different reason though. Polly, by Nirvana was written to show how inhuman some people doing a specific nasty thing could be, but ended up being used as a mantra by some of those same people who missed the point entirely. I imagine it might have been part of what lead to Kurt's end...

@thing_under_the_stairs 17 дней назад

@@AbstractStew Pretty sure that it was Gloomy Sunday. I`m not sure if this is true, but the version of the story I've heard is that the original, Hungarian, version was banned after an outbreak of people self-deleting while listening to that song. Then it was translated to English, and the most cheerful Jazz singer in history, Billie Holiday, recorded her own classic version. According to legend, the same thing happened in both America and England, and at least the BBC, and possibly some US radio stations as well, banned Billie's version for decades. Bjork did a great cover of it, too!

@localvega688 День назад

Lavender Town Syndrome?

@drakeolson4683 25 дней назад

Im almost certain the anachist cookbook that's on amazon is a newer edited version with recipies changed to be less dangerous, that's why it is still sold

@Jake-O-Rama 25 дней назад

Ain’t no way my man said “slibbery.” 16:55 “…but ideas are slibbery.”

@harthroth 25 дней назад

I occasionally empty out the insides of books and fill them with bees and put them in no bee zones

@lerneanlion 26 дней назад

Should we be concerned that someone might attempted to do something similar to the Rumbling one day just because that person happened to be depressed about the situation of the world and then read Attack on Titan?

@Antasma1 26 дней назад

Let’s just hope that person can’t control nukes

@aouyiu 25 дней назад

@@Antasma1 with the way the world has gone in the past decade, I am legitimately concerned that could actually happen.

@localvega688 День назад

What was the Rumbling?

@kingofhearts3185 2 часа назад

@@localvega688 An apocalyptic event that destroyed most of the world and killed %80 of humanity.

@ccvcharger 4 дня назад

There actually is a book that can kill you. It’s called “Shadows from the Walls of Death,” and it is actually a collection of wallpaper samples that were made using an arsenic based green pigment. It was originally written to raise awareness to the dangers that this particular green pigment posed. Two surviving copies exist and are kept at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan, and to access it you have to take special precautions. Needless to say, checking it out from the library is not an option, though it is available in PDF. To my knowledge the PDF can’t kill you like the physical copy can.

@jeremy-loves-cherries 17 дней назад

0:52 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA THING IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS IN A STORY I’M WRITING- that startled me-

@libertycowboy2495 25 дней назад

Was almost killed by a dictionary once....fell off top shelf and missed my head by millimeters. The thing was MASSIVE! Catcher in the Rye was the single most boring book i was ever forced to read.

@analogsergal 26 дней назад

thats what you get when you open the face exploder book

@timhaldane7588 25 дней назад

Any book can kill you at a high enough velocity.

@8momojay 23 дня назад

always lovely to see another video from you, Tale Foundry! 💚

@TheeKing7 26 дней назад

I love the intro so much

@jordy8693 26 дней назад

just what i needed for this terrible thursday morning

@jrestik9747 26 дней назад

im always happy when you post its night where i live right now so its just like a bedtime story

@leftoverpesto187 7 дней назад

Listening to this, I can't stop thinking of a book called The City of Dreaming Books by German author Walter Moers ("Die Stadt der Träumenden Bücher" in the original German). Dangerous books are a big part of the story, as well as the dangers of read in general, especially if the books are "too good". It's fantasy, but a very unique kind of fantasy. Although I can't speak for the English translations too much, I'd recommend the book (and most of his books in the Zamonia setting in general). Knowing your channel, you might have some fun with it :)

@unhingedconnoisseur164 26 дней назад

better not read it then

@tristanfarmer9031 25 дней назад

Understandable why you wouldn't mention the Bible. As a Christian even I can't deny the way book has be interpreted. That would probably get political, and I know how unpleasant that gets. However, could of mentioned it being one of the only books that will kill wasps and hornets effectively. Is it disrespectful? Maybe. Is it effective? Yes.

@Calebgoblin 8 дней назад

Forreal. The Bible: I cannot stress enough that doing everything in love is of utmost importance People: oh okay, so crusade

@kingofhearts3185 2 часа назад

The same goes for other religions' hold on their followers.

@Serai3 25 дней назад

Ah, the Necronomicon. The McGuffin of the only gumshoe/Chthulhu mashup every made: _Cast a Deadly Spell,_ starring Fred Ward as grumpy detective Phil Lovecraft, Julianne Moore as duplicitous _chanteuse_ Connie Stone, Clancy Brown as arrogant mob boss Harry Dunwich, and David Warner as obsessive occult scholar Amos Hackshaw. Everyone uses magic in 1948 Los Angeles except Lovecraft, staunch independent that he is, who gets caught up in the search for the Necronomicon, and the dangers that result in the calling of Cthulhu. If you haven't seen it, you must dig it up. It's filled with some of the most quotable lines ever written. "Magic. Gives me the shakes what you can buy in this town." "Good ol' Phil, subtle as a flagpole." Just great stuff!

@TheGrievousReviews 9 дней назад

Probably the most 'dangerous' book I've experienced is easily 'Blood Meridian'. Not that it supports any violence but the sheer volume of it and its disgusting ending with incredible writing techniques.

@edrozenrozen9600 26 дней назад

What about Mein Kamf? Extremely evil

@kevinturner1444 7 дней назад

Love your animations!!! Very talented

@skywares 26 дней назад

19:30 thank you for reminding me to look you up on Nebula!! I love that platform, I'll see you there 😁

@singo_rongo 26 дней назад

Sry for the cringe but first

@someblaqguy 26 дней назад

You're not sorry. Not in the slightest! Lol. It's great for the algorithm, so it's no big deal 😅

@k.jacquottez-y.561 26 дней назад

i hereby dethrone you, i am now first

@NixityNullt 26 дней назад

You are not forgiven. Doing wrong and acknowleding it with self awareness is arguably worse because you knew it was wrong and did it anyway.

@singo_rongo 26 дней назад

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY BELOVED THROOOOONE@@k.jacquottez-y.561

@909crime 26 дней назад

when i read this and i went insane

@NightBane345 26 дней назад

I still love the intro. Hope you keep getting more subs and supporters, so can do more of this amazing content

@BrookieSmallz 25 дней назад

Everyone: The Horror, THE HORRORRRRRRRR! The Binding of Isaac fans: That's 1 out of 3 for Bookworm effect, gimme that 0.0

@brantcloyd5485 19 дней назад

The Necronomicon can do the following if read: -Release Demonic Eldritch Entities -Describe all Evil. -Capture Demonic Souls and transfer their powers -Control Time and Space - Add abilities at a cost of the user. -Control compelling thoughts. -Grant the user full control of their envrionment if a "Chosen One". -Transverse dimensions -And a few other things. Unless you have plot armor mever forget these words: Klatuu Verada Nikto

@TruePabloEscobar 20 дней назад

this channel its soo good !! tks 🙂

@LoneTiger День назад

_"While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power, words offer the means to meaning and, for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth..."_ - V for Vendetta.

@rika8484 26 дней назад

Well. That went harder than I was expecting. Good on you!

@squeethemog213 25 дней назад

A fantastic educational video guys. Thank you so much for making it 😁

@SharperPenImageConsulting 25 дней назад

Oh man. You’re great. Thanks for doing what you do.

@henryrodgers7386 22 дня назад

Fun fact: there are "sequels" to the Anarchist Cookbook, from several authors, which go into detail about everything from making drugs and medicine from plants to making biodiesel. The poorly-bound example i found at a yard sale was specifically about homemade medicine, but it had three separate chapters about different kinds of drugs... It mentioned the Anarchist's Cookbook in the dedication, as inspiration for its creation. I also have a book from 1964 about how to make fireworks. Most of the ingredients aren't readily available anymore, but some of the larger models described are terrifying. Apparently safety and common sense were not fixtures the author considered important.

@wesleycolvin7158 25 дней назад

This is some of the most compelling material on RU-vid. Maybe it's the material itself or the way you tell it.

@stephanc6138 25 дней назад

ephipiny comes in various ways. - only way books can kill you, is when its hard, heavy and literal.

@dragonlordblazer13 23 дня назад

I loved this episode. There's a deep emotional, almost spiritual mentality to the dangers of books. I think probably one of my favorite quotes from any movie comes from ready player One and I'm not even sure if this was in the book but it might have been. "Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on the back of a chewing-gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe"

@TheEccentricJester 25 дней назад

"No book can kill you on its own" Me: *knows that there's a book about the dangers of green dye/wallpaper and how it poisons people, with ACTUAL EXAMPLES of the poison wallpaper so the readers know what to avoid.*

@DrFranklynAnderson 20 дней назад

I always interrupted the King in Yellow play as informing its reader to a truth about reality, and that existential horror was what drove them mad. (Or more accurately, let them see what others could not and so be _considered_ insane.) I never thought it made them feel too much.

@dmnapier7 25 дней назад

There could be a secret link to ACB. Making it when a person buys one, it put their IP on the map.

@NewAge374 25 дней назад

Another lesson apart from critically examining the content of a story would be to continue reading other books of its kind, explore the genre, look at other authors. Don't get stuck with that one book as if it were your Bible, the only thing containing truth. The obvious danger in censoring things is that it's rather inconsistent: learning chemistry could also teach you how to make bombs, watching wacky science shows can do the same and instill people with the example of how it goes right, doing more damage than perhaps the Anarchist Cookbook ever did. We need to continue reading, contrast ideas, debate them with others and not brood on them endlessly. I saw a quote recently in a bookshop that cautions people who read little because they will read the wrong things first.

@BubblegumStudiosOfficial 25 дней назад

Could you guys please do a video on weapons and armour (or just objects in general I guess) that are possessed in some sort of way? I’ve always found this to be a really interesting trope, the idea of a warriors spirit being imprinted on their sword and can guide the next user or something. Would be very much appreciated:P