Member MCLXIX
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- Audio (3), very good (1), Not my kind of writing style. Slow burner but good thematically. Sometimes you have to let old dreams die. Sometimes you have to blot out the green light. (1), Man shoots sunbather on beach; blames sun (1), Gets to the point for the benefit of the yellows in the audience (1), and tries to convince you that machines are taking over because google taught a robot to play chess. (1), A series of well presented but crudely phrased pieces of advice that might be given by your drunken yet very well read friend on a routine trip to the pub. But then he takes some multicoloured pills halfway through the evening (1), A writer’s diss-track (1), "What're you reading?" "It's called win... uhh... it's about influence" (1), Dove pheromone coated billionaire owns special oxytocin beach that makes strangers fall in love (1), It's just perfect really isn't it? (1), Really interesting (1), speculative science! (1), Science Meredith (1), I usually move out of the way when I pass people in the street too (1), Don't feel self-conscious underground man (1), Made me scream-laugh multiple times. Amazing. (1), Ratio + you fell off (1), A touching tale about a man who can't stop murdering animals (1), but doesn't really go anywhere. Payoff was a bit of a dead end. So it goes. (1), interesting themes (1), weird and hilarious plot points (1), Super engaging meta-fictional writing style (1), Arturo is the struggling friend you tell to wake up but you suppress the fact that there's some of him in you (1), "Can you see the cat? Can you see the cradle?" Lies as an antidote to nihilism. (1), but do not ask us how". He-who-has-a-why-can-bare-any-how-ology (1), a man can get used to anything (1), but the theory is interesting (1), read it read it read it read it (1), what's string theory? I can now blow his tiny little mind. Brilliantly well explained (1), hey dad (1), Purple used to be my favourite colour (1), "I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do" (1), Bit Freudian (1), Less fun (1), I actually went to a Piaza Garibaldi in Italy after reading this book. Not what I expected!!! (1), what are we doing? (1), and if we aren’t doing yyy (1), we can’t xxx in the end (1), sometimes we even zzz (don’t tell my wife). The thing is (1), we yyy (1), we xxx (1), zzz - sometimes we all xxx (1), If you aren’t XXX then what are you doing? I know lots of people who xxx (1), We ruv G Force (1), costs virtually nothing - it’s the poor man’s Pimms. But give it to someone on their fucking birthday… (1), Vimto is the best drink. Okay. It’s delicious (1), Will it blend? That is the question. (1), Wait until Matt Haig realises you can order your shopping online! (1), "My ambition is handicapped by laziness" (1), The best book on ethical living that one journalist has ever read (1), Why does every character need 4 names? (1), Juice drink is the only good entry: it is on page 136. Do not read this book. (1), he'd be sure to love Tech9ine's cocktail the 'caribou lou' (1), If Michael Easter wasn't famously sober (1), They turned an analogy into a book. (1), This is going to hurt for lawyers (1), More appropriately titled than the other one (1), A tour de force of clear writing indeed (1), Audio. You know that video about a boyfriend giving his woman advice when he's really tired (1), Don't use Tiktok at Graceland (1), Flirting is the oil that lubricates the engine of ingenuity and wit (1), Brains don't owe you focus (1), It's the year 2045: I'm watching the 80th season of "big bang theory" and my son quantum tunnels into the room by exploiting Calabi-Yau space geometry and asks (1), evidence is provided for the claims that I could easily believe but not for the most salient propositions: our society and culture having racism built into the core (1), Any book that introduced a word into common parlance is worth reading (1), Genuinely helpful for learning (1), "There's nothin inside his stupid little head" (1), I'm never reading Shakespeare again (1), The only Shakespeare I can stand (1), The most useful book in my academic career; genuinely phenomenal. Read front to back multiple times (1), 1891 lol (1), Defined my childhood and sense of humour (1), Need to revisit as read a long time ago (1), Changed my perspective on many things (1), Absolutely fantastic; a must read (1), especially after "reaching down the rabbit hole" (1), The book that taught me that I can't speak English (1), Fucking hilarious (1), Haha teacher say N word (1), Matrices were explained in terms of clocks and I can't tell the time (1), I now know how to orchestrate a successful terrorist attack (1), Easy money (1), Fascinating read (1), "Yes (1), Yeah (1), above all (1), yyy (1), Dreadful (1), white supremacy (1), reassuring (1), Good fun (1), very (1), too. (1), amazing book (1), thanks Steven! (1), When Nicole Renard raped Larry LaSalle I was shook (1), hell (1), Injunction to direct your attention toward the things that matter (1), essentially a call to better communication and reflection which I respect (1), white privilege etc (indeed (1), DiAngelo stated that she wasn't going to suggest solutions or prove the problem even existed). Reading was NOT a waste of time but there were plenty of hilariously bad (and worrying) takes throughout. (1), I don't think making group identity paramount is a good thing to do. How is group identity more important than meritocracy? Especially in a book recommended by a university! It feels like a bit of a stretch in a lot of places (1), but I don't know (1), Instructed to read by the university. Ehh it's certainly thought provoking and definitely serves as an injunction not to be complacent in racism and racist action (1), Pretty fucked. (1), Putting into words the tacit knowledge about effective communication of ideas using examples of many speakers (1), it did. Really funny and bizarre. I counted two female characters Hank didn't have sex with. I desperately want as much of this to be true as possible. (1), to be fair (1), Wild. I don't even know what to say. Was recommended because it had a "funny rape scene" which (1), I need as much chaotic neutral in my life as possible (1), also good disagreeableness training (1), More of the same which is exactly what I wanted. Is it okay to read a book that's technically Christmas themed in July? (1), I read this while I was in the womb and thought it was okay (1), who'd have guessed? (1), Found on Amazon best sellers list. Very (1), Well written and illustrated injunction to responsibly use and incorporate facts and data in your worldview. Author has myriad personal experiences which guide the book and make it super easy to follow and digest. Super interesting (1), I can't rate this because I'd need to read it twelve thousand times to understand it properly. Thankfully I knew a lot of the themes going in otherwise it might as well be written in upside-down hieroglyphics (1), informative and (1), philisophical and historical parts (1), Liked the symbolism (1), The things you can find out if you look at the data (1), A masterful craft of the bleakest world imaginable. You will never watch Frank Skinner game shows the same way again (1), I have next to no recollection of reading this book but I did (1), I am a worse person for having read this. I'm fairly certain nothing happened (1), Absolute dumpster-tier trash (1), I have a habit of forgetting what I read in habit books (1), Actually really good (1), another billboard down! (1)
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