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Vlet's avatar

Initially passed over the book during its initial release and prominence in RW culture. Read it for the first time earlier this year, on your recommendation, and I’ve reread it 2-3 times since at work.

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sudnoSS's avatar

100gecs,my favorite troon-tunes

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Scythe's avatar

This was a very important book to my development. At the time I read it, I think I had just taken the rose-colored glasses off and stopped being a libertarian. I read this book in one sitting. And have read it a few times since. I can definitely see why some people don't like it. But as you say here, the specific stories he tells aren't important and aren't meant to be taken super literally, but the message he's conveying with those stories is very important. Though I think anyone intelligent enough should be able to discern when he's being totally serious and when he's using irony.

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- Ffffffghggghjk's avatar

Couldn’t finish it. Got annoyed with the style and the deliberate whiny edginess in the beginning. Maybe I’ll pick it back up during lunch.

Also the stop eating or stay fat paragraph could’ve been some Cake lyrics.

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