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                    <h2>Why do a boring old person thing like read?</h2>
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                        I use to dislike reading because I thought reading was for boring old people.
                        It turned out I was correct, reading is for boring old people. Than I became
                        a boring old person, so now I read.
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                    <h2>How to find a good book</h2>
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                        The more questons that answer with yes the more likely it is that the book is
                        worth a read:
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                        <li>Do christians dislike the book?</li>
                        <li>Did a school board in florida or texas try to ban it?</li>
                        <li>Is the author mentally insane?</li>
                        <li>Did a German dude write it?</li>
                        <li>Do book reviewers struggle to wrap their tiny brains around it?</li>
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                    <h2>Content:</h2>
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                        <li><a href="#reading_list">Reading list</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#reviews">Reviews</a></li>
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                    <h2 id="reading_list">Reading list</h2>

                    <h3>Currenly reading: 1985</h3>
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                        Been on my list for a while. I always wondered "how the fuck have I not read
                        1984 yet?". Well now I am reading it.
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                    <h3>Ever growing list of things I need to read</h3>
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                            Danzig Trilogy:
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                                <li>The Tin Drum</li>
                                <li>Cat and Mouse</li>
                                <li>Dog Years</li>
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                        <li>The People's Republic of Walmart</li>
                        <li>Cybernetic Revolutionaries</li>
                        <li>Jailbird</li>
                        <li>Brave New World</li>
                        <li>Fahrenheit 451</li>
                        <li>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</li>
                        <li>The Flounder</li>
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                    <h2 id="reviews">A few reviews I guess</h2>
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                        <b>Warning, most of these are Kurt Vonnegut books.</b> I really need to try more authors rofl.
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                    <h3>The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles</h3>
                    <p>
                        A underrated masterpiece. A must read. This book is mind opening in so many ways
                        and will improve your life. Read it to your dog, your cat, your braindead
                        grandparents... Afterwards give the Whangdoodles in Whangdoodle land a visit
                        and tell them I said hihi. Its one of those childrens books that is strangely
                        enjoyable for all ages.
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                    <h3>Cat's Cradle</h3>
                    <p>
                        Dont waste your time reading the fucking bible. Read Cat's Cradle instead.
                        Its a book with countless layers that all play into each other. Every detail
                        is important and meaningful even if its enteracting with the story on a
                        abstract level that doesnt show up at first. Cat's Cradle is the golden
                        example of how to write a story. It has a way of almost feeling like its
                        putting you in the middle of a historical event instead of simply telling
                        a fictional story. It has a tastefully dialectical natural that makes
                        every detail in the story work more like parts in a well tuned machine.
                        Cat's Cradle might even be your vin-dit into Bokononism.
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                    <h3>The Sirens of Titan</h3>
                    <p>
                        Kurt Vonnegut books arent known for making very good movies but reguardless
                        <b>I need this one to be turned into a movie right now!</b> It has a surreal
                        almost dream like vibe like the army on the rusting metal surface of mars,
                        the beautiful landscape of titan, and a flavor of sci-fi that seems fitting
                        for the time it was written but strangely modern all at the same time. How
                        the fuck can a book have so much blunt foreshadowing yet leave you completely
                        unprepared for whats about to happen?! You must read this book. I will stage
                        an entire war if you dont, I will make you get into a rocket and fly to titan
                        if you dont. <b>You have to read this book!!!</b>
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                    <h3>Galapagos</h3>
                    <p>
                        Jesus be dammed, booked reviewers are harsh af on this masterpiece. Its
                        always shit like "I cant understand the small clever details and it doesnt
                        hold my hand and tell me everything in simple tv news approved words there
                        for its a bad book". This book does a good job putting down Social Darwmism
                        and explaining how evolution actually works. The way every detail connects
                        is just wonderful and the way it so very carefully frames every moment passing
                        by and choices what to bring into focus at any given moment. It has a way of
                        spending most of the book on just a few days worth of events yet going into
                        detail about the next one million years of humans. Its a work of absurb chaos
                        carefully looked at under a microscope.
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                    <h3>The Children's Crusade</h3>
                    <p>
                        An anti-war book from the 60s? Already sounds based! Anyways if you read this
                        book you will become unstuck in time. Time doesnt move, we dont control time...
                        Everything is already planed out and we are just looking at one moment at a time.
                        Once you read this book you will instead see time for what it really is.
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                    <h3>Goodbye Blue Monday</h3>
                    <p>
                        This book starts out with a hand drawn picture of the authors asshole just
                        to prove a point. It continues to include hand drawn pictures of the most
                        random things throughout the book. What does the book say? I dont know
                        because I never read it... fooled you! You believed me for a second didnt
                        you? dumb ass! Well anyways, the book is about some dude who reads a sci-fi
                        book and thinks its real. You know the same thing happened to me when I watched
                        Star Wars for the first, second, and 10th time! Anyways, even though this book
                        is a fucking mess everyone should be required to read it. In some twisted way
                        you might learn a thing or two.
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                    <h3>Ready Player One</h3>
                    <p>
                        Its kind of a fucking mess of a book. Nothing about the story line itself is that
                        creative by any means and the character design is kind of flat, but just the
                        amount of details packed into it is insane. I dig the world building and just the
                        grand scale of it all. The movie puts it to shame. Unlike the movie the egg hunt
                        is actually difficult.
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                    <h3>Animal Farm</h3>
                    <p>
                        Its a clever little book indeed. Had me laughing the entire time. Anyways,
                        <b>its not designed to be used entirely
                            as a anti-socialist book</b>. Think it through: so in the book the animal
                        revolution is a socialist revolution, the humans are the capital owning class,
                        the leaders who took control after the revolution was a pigs, years after the
                        revolution the pigs started walking and dressing like humans and they even
                        became friends with the humans. Aka revolution needs to put democracy first
                        or risk going back to square one. <b>If you read Animal Farm and think "the
                        animals should have just happily put every ounce of their geist into
                        working for the humans instead of rebelling" I have to ask: do you know
                        what stockholm syndrome is? You better call the doctor because you seem
                            to have it for the capital owning class.</b> Thinking in simple black
                        and white terms is a clear sign of mind control.
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