Jason Pettus's Reviews > The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

2023 reads, #65. To be clear, my record entry here is for declaring not that I read this book, but rather the book The Turner Diaries by famed white supremecist William Luther Pierce (here writing under the penname Andrew Macdonald); and it's a real book and I really read it, so goddamnit, I want it to count towards my total book count at this year's Goodreads reading challenge, despite the fact that Goodreads owner Amazon has banned people from publicly acknowledging that the book actually exists. There's a good reason for that, because the novel is exactly as vile as the stories have it (written in the 1970s and set in an alt-history '90s, it's essentially a 300-page description of an apocalyptic race war that's eventually won by the white people with the aid of stolen nuclear weapons); but still, I have to confess that it deeply disturbs me that a corporation like Amazon can just decide one day that a certain book doesn't exist, never did exist, and never will exist, and that the rest of us are expected to go along with it like obedient little Orwellian sheep. So I suppose this is my own little act of rebellion, to have the power to stand up and say, "Yeah, it's a terrible book; yeah, you should skip it; yeah, Pierce was a horrible human being (among other details of his life, he was married five times, the last three wives all Hungarian mail-order brides, and all five of his wives left him after claiming emotional and physical abuse); but the book does exist, it is an actual book you can download and read, and I resent Amazon's Newthink attempts to pretend that the book doesn't exist and never has." So there, I've now officially done so, and now I can go back to comfortably living with myself.