"im definitely human i love books about us!"

I love humans! I learned everything about them in this cool manual!

also that he's an arrogant knob lol. this book descends into the author's over-confident stream of consciousness like halfway through, I couldn't stand him!

thats basically me reading a book about animals before going to zoo and then acting like a cat girl to show animals I am one ot them.

He likes to call it "Humanstory."

this is true

This is my favourite comment ever

And dropped it halfway through

😂

LMAO I CAN’T

Fiction is sugarcoated truths about the world . They are good for reflecting on issues that we are not able to discuss directly with people bc taboo or censorship.

@@kellychen8384 Oh man....... there is so much more to fiction than what you just said. I invite you to read more (and better) fiction if you truly believe your own words. And if you've just read so much fiction already, may I suggest reading Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler", Perec's "Life: A User's Manual", or Cortazar's "Hopscotch". But before those, if you haven't read them already, read Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", Kafka's "The Trial", and Faulkner's "Absalom! Absalom!". I will agree that contemporary fiction has leaned heavily on "sugarcoating truths." But, quite honestly, there isn't a single book being published today that doesn't just prettify what someone else openly writes in a newspaper article, or worse, on a twitter thread. Contemporary fiction has forgotten how truly inexhaustible fiction writing can be. That's why it's so important to re-read the greats, before we keep thinking every damn novel has to be a sociopolitical commentary.

@@kellychen8384 you have no idea how wrong you are

@@rafraf3950 would you mind educating me more then?

Ulen Grau All the classics are sociopolitical commentaries though...

He's an ultra girlboss 😌

He just worked rly hard to get his wealth He just worked his Amazon slaves rly hard* sorry my hand slipped

omg is that from tracy and katya

see I don't really love these comments because I'm not sure he's autistic but a lot of the traits he has that make people say this ARE autistic coded and it just makes me feel bad that people think I'm an alien or weird

800th like And totally agree. He's like the most generic looking, near humanoid sack of meat with eyes I've ever seen

STOP

Carly is so #girlboss that she would get that audible sponsorship email and rejected

I absolutely love it, cant believe how many youtubers just accept a sponsorshp from that disgusting company

@@bingbong-vp5rd what is audible doing?

@@Guineapigsreadingbooks hey! I would not have used the word "disgusting" today haha, forgive me for that. The reason I dislike Audible is becasue of two things. First of all they're owned by Amazon, which is a company that treats their employees _very badly. Second, Audible are known for dismantling the book industries in some countries, for example Sweden. They get monopoly fast through low prices that others can't compete with. I personally don't think it's a good idea that huge companies can own "the whole world", and would like more diverse ownership of the culture industries such as literature, music, tv:)

yes i accept this thesis

Makes sense.

yes

that male gaze tho literally

@@laurenc9614 bi or gay/bi narrator but straight author(s).

lie to us girlboss

*Me, a Greek, having to read both for school* I'm better than you Elizabeth

From what I recall of her story, Holmes was a private school kid with aristocratic-type but poor parents who was clearly very ambitious. I think that she met her lover/co-founder (who was much older than her) while in high school after having talked her way into some Stanford program in China and then also talked her way into advanced classes. I 100% believe that she’d have read Homer, not so much to read Homer as to have the talking point. Admittedly, I’m somewhat sympathetic towards Holmes. I don’t think that she did anything that most tech companies don’t do, she just made the mistake of doing it in a highly-regulated space. What you can get away with when making a streaming box or whatever is harder to do in the health sphere.

@@yoshiforpm her father was Vice President for Enron, I wouldn’t call that poor parents. I also don’t think we should be feeling sorry for her, she didn’t feel sorry for cancer patients that were getting incorrect blood results from her machines.

@@racheyt9196, it’s been a while since I read the Theranos book, but I don’t think he was one of the people who got rich off Enron. My recollection was that he was some kind of diplomat or something later on. As to the substance of the case itself, I don’t know all of the evidence yet, but I don’t know that there’s any allegations of specific harm to identifiable individuals. As far as I know, what she’s charged with all involves misleading investors and damage to investors.

so true! Also, when regular influencers make videos on their favorite books they read that year, and by the recommendations you just know they were the only books they read that year loll. Not trying to gatekeep reading or anything, but it's just so painful to watch those videos

hes not a bad guy ffs

@@satoshinakamoto7253 he is literally evil

He def just didn't read it

I love herstory ✨

YES!

I know exactly where your pfp is from and although it's not that long ago it gave me such nostalgia

i just looked this up and he named one of his satellites or sth starlink which he said was inspired by the fault in our stars. maybe that was a joke but still i-

@@jay5391 What is the pfp from?

@@alicepan6631 a vlog dodie made a few years ago during her visit to northern Ireland (Belfast I think).

ROFL, that is so true with the men I know.

I'm a big reader and my cishet husband only reads, like, sci-fi/humourous non-fiction lol it's really weird. Like the Zombie Survival Guide or The Bounty Hunter's Handbook (Star Wars). Stuff like that. I'm like... why not read something with a story?!

My boyfriend a 27 yo man loving middle grade books about Greek mythology 😂 I'm a thriller, SciFi, ya smut lover and he just loves anything about fictional history. But he also loooves real history books and real science books. He has no in between, he's also a new reader! Made him start and it's been 3 years now that he's cool and pick ups books!

No but fr, some guy on tv where i live was even asked what genre he likes to read and i kid u not, he said "scientific books" like he either was lying to sound smart or had no personality cus who tf just reads non fiction science for fun bruh at least read sci-fi

My father definitely does as well. Though then again, he is a business man. Not a billionaire or millionaire, but definitely a workaholic

*iConiQUE 🤩

ofc they do

@@satoshinakamoto7253 they’re literally illiterate

Sign me up I'll bring the pizza

I'm down - we can all pretend to have read a bunch of philosophical books to prove that we're holier than thou and totally not on said downward spiral into the capitalism game

SIGN ME UP 🤠

@@martinasophiaisaksen3034 sounds great 😌✌️

i mean, at least the book recs will be better

STOp

WAIT 'it tastes doubly better when u hunted the animal yourself' I DONT REMEMBER THAT BIT WHAT THE FUCK

okay? okay.

Oh my gosh jfjfjffjf this has me wheezing

To be fair Creativity Inc is a good book! It's about the unique culture in Pixar that allowed them to create great films like Toy Story, Up, and so on.

my sentiments exactly

or both if you're lizzy holmes

thank you 🥺

It’s the “hope you are taking care of yourselves or I will shoot you” for me 🤣

I like how she threatens to kill me with her handgun.

​@@authorgreenelowkey same

Lol it's pretty unhinged but I kinda dig it

who says im not 🥰

Not sure what you are getting at. It's a commercial selling a false concept of coolness & individuality.

@@lavenderbee3611 I'm just really enjoying that a book Steve Jobs created a superbowl ad in the name of is on the same list of "favorite books" that has a lot of fluff and posturing. Like, is this your favorite book? Name a commercial after it and get sued by the author's estate or I don't believe you. I just thought it was funny.

I love everything about 'voluntarily scruffy' as an aesthetic. (And I hope that you are in the capacity of listening to your needs and taking care of yourself, as this tends to be pretty hard these days, and that you'll be all right).

@@Maradrafts thank you, I will be okay, I have these dips every now and then when I’m under stress and I have exams coming up. If I don’t bounce back after that I’ll go speak with my dr. I work in tax so see lots of entrepreneurs and CEO’s. They weren’t particularly smart pre-pandemic but now they live in hoodies and shorts as we’re all working from home

​@@kayles0mg I definitely get the pattern -- hang in there, then, and hopefully I wasn't being too intrusive! (Working in tax sounds tough in any case, regardless of exams or supplementary stress, so props to you for this alone!) That must've been weird to see at the beginning, still... Tbh, I'm the type to follow a dress code even when there isn't one in place, simply because I need boundaries between work and non-work, but I wish I had the guts to pull this up. Seems way comfier than the usual if nothing else!

If you don't recommend Anna and the French Kiss and a Girlboss book, I'm going to sue you ❤️

I think I’d go for exclusively YA fantasy trilogies

omg thanks girlboss!

Honeslty same, you are currently saving my brain from decaying at a rapid rate

stop this is so nice 🥺

Bill Gates has a book blog?

2021 is the year you become a billionaire cari

welcome!!

😭

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK AMANDA PELO AMOR DE DEUS

It is. It is a nice easy introduction to the way society works, history, and so on. Entry level for beginners.

thank you 😈