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Actual redditor list. Feel like most of these are high school reading level
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It is, there are a couple on the list I like re-read every few years, but its up there with my re-reads of Harry Potter, not not worthy or something to be proud of.
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It's been a while, but aren't like 3 or 4 of these ~150 pages too? Like reading a book a week isn't a challenge to see who has the most words viewed, but if you're reading books in 1-2 sittings regularly, maybe consider something more substantial. Also somewhat telling everything is either the best known book by the author or the first in a series. There's no attempt to work through the complete story just 'hrmph hrmph, I read le intellectual book.' Like Foundation 1 isn't even the good one, same for Hitchhikers. Orwell has written other things, and 2001 is pretty much a recount of the movie and you might as well skip to 2010 (then never read the other 2 books). His list reeks of looking up lists of deep books on /r/coolreading
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!bookworms Lex Fridman says he consooms one book per week, what's your current pace?
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Jan 1-4: Busy, Busy Town by Richard Scarry
Jan 5-11: The Adventures of Lowly Worm by Richard Scarry
Jan 12-18: The Best Word Book Ever by Richard Scarry
Jan 19-25: Lowly Worm Story Book by Richard Scarry
Jan 26-Feb 1: Busytown Pop-Up Book by Richard Scarry
Feb 2-8: Busy Workers by Richard Scarry
Feb 9-15: Dr. Doctor by Richard Scarry
Feb 16-22: Huckle's Book by Richard Scarry
Feb 23-Mar 1: Bedtime Stories by Richard Scarry
Mar 2-8: Busy, Busy Word Book by Richard Scarry
Mar 9-15: Busy Houses by Richard Scarry
Mar 16-22: Pig Will and Pig Won't: A Book of Manners by Richard Scarry
Mar 23-29: To Market, To Market by Richard Scarry
Mar 30-Current: Can You Count? by Richard Scarry (IN PROGRESS)
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Wow you're such a fast reader! Do you wanna get a treat from the prize box?
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yesh
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I don't have enough gold stars... yet
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Real talk, Richard Scarry kicks so much butt.
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I shoot for one every two weeks
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i just eat them to absorb the knowledge like an aztec warrior eating a warrior heart
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Two a week, not including Manga.
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3 books a day
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Uhhh
Like one book a month
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I go fast or slow as I want. Infinite Jest is good but it is a slog to get through that's taken me a month and I'm only 70% done.
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Around the same, about one graphic novel a week.
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One every 3-4 weeks typically
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Maybe one every two months. Mostly reading technical stuff and German textbooks nowadays.
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How about you read a book on diction you actual blockhead.
oh and
The Bible for midwits.
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!historychads discuss Sapiens and Yuval Noah Harari
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I read that as a 14 year old and found it very insightful
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Sapiens is pure slop made by a
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good books:
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a brave new world is the better 1984
the art of war is good for the whore story
old man and the sea is 100% certified kino classic literally me pilled
metamorphisis:
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Fahrenheit 451 is a better bnw
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i just never really liked Brave New World. 1984 is just dystopias version of foundation where the worldbuilding is way better than the actual story.
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@PeepeeButtKiss hated that book, should be burned it was so awful
Trans lives matter
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He should have been reading Sailor who Fell From Grace with the Sea smdh pseuds
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Sci fi bros...
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dogwater sci fi
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Do better. Be better
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Foundation has one actually good character in it and he was the unironic basis for JarJar. I love the worldbuilding but it's somehow a snooze fest of a story.
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One review for it said that he loved reading it, but at the end he realized nothing happened
That is a pretty accurate description, and I really like it. It's a very unique book series
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If I hadn't read hitchhikers guide at the age I did I would probably be 10% dumber
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There's a couple I'm not familiar with, but the ones I am are all good books, dramatards are just contrarian NPCs. It's absolutely fair game to mock Lex for posting this as his reading list though, most people who would read these would have done so by their mid-20's. As with everything he does, he approaches this as a midwit attempting to earn good boy points for being smart from aspirational r-slurs.
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How the frick is the reading list of a 40-something "public intellectual"
the same as my 9th grade English class?
Like many of these are good books, and there's no shame in re-reading a classic or having missed a few "canonical" books over your lifetime, but this whole list for a grown-butt man...and one who is trying to flex his bigbrain
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177013 is the better Metamorphosis, granted that is a low bar.
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Real true valid
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Haha Lexibro has the same reading list as /r/books
How is this a person who holds himself out as an intellectual?
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Taleb's blackswan slop woulda fit well into this list
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With a wit like that, me responding to you would be the internet equivalent of beating up a small child. So instead I will refrain, enjoy a snickers, and hope to god you kids are not serious about this person. Here's your upmarsey, you little creep.
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