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Can Alizee Guess The Book From The 1 Star Review? · Rachel Oates

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Hey everyone, welcome back. I got a special guest today.
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What up? It's a lazy big and lazy easy.
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That's my Christian name. Hi.
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She's here and we are going to talk books.
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I've got a game for you. OK, Right.
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You know, I'm into like quizzes and stuff, yes.
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You've still not been to one of my quiz nights, but I host the
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best quiz nights and they're really fun.
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Because I'm not reading that into quizzes, but you know.
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Why are we friends? We like my quizzes.
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There are prizes. What kind of prizes?
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I gave Mr Potato Head out of the last one.
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Oh, can it be chocolate? I'll come if it's chocolate.
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It's never chocolate. Oh, skin care.
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No Botox I gave a kid's art kid. Like close to painting?
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How about I just participate and get a participation trophy?
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Oh, I have medals for the winter.
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Oh, I would love a bit. OK.
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I'd love a medal. OK, OK, OK.
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OK, so one of the rounds I sometimes do in my quizzes is
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where I put up a one star review of like a piece of classic
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literature and I try and get people to guess what it is.
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I've got some of that for you. Some of them are a little bit
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hard. So I've got a series of one star
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reviews for you. Some good books, some bad.
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I'm pretty sure you know them all, except maybe one of them.
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OK, perfect. It's a bit like the red letter
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box. Letter box movie review.
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Probably. Yes.
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OK, perfect. No, let's go for it.
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Go for it. Make sure I can't see the
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screen. Though no looking.
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OK so the first one they start a bit vague and then as I go
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through them like you'll get more and more clues.
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So the first one, This book was the epitome of suffering from
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boredom. I know it's only January, but
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this will be my least favourite book of the year as well as the
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longest. Longest and boring and you think
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I've read it? I'm pretty sure you have.
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Is it like 20 questions where I get to ask like some?
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I'm gonna say like have a guess and then I can read you more one
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star reviews of it. Do I get to know the genre?
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Do I get to guess the genre? Yeah, if you want.
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Is it some sort of like young adult fantasy?
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No, I really don't understand. I just don't get it.
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This is one of the great novels and baffled.
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Was it because I listened to the audio book instead of reading
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it? Or maybe it was a translation of
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the version I had. This book is extremely long,
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extremely slow, and just when it would start to pick up, the
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author would go off on tangents of crops and farming, religion,
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politics, or something completely uninteresting and
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unimportant to the overall story.
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Crops and crops. And I know, I know, I know.
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Is it Anna Kronan? Because he does.
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He just goes on about crossing and like, oh, I was with the
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peasants and the peasants. The peasants have a better life
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than me, but I'm rich and it's like Tolstoy, please.
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Do you know what I did kind of think like, oh, it's so long.
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I did think Russian, but then I wasn't shocked.
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I'm good see you are good at this.
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I love Anacrenda Anaconda. She's so fucking relatable.
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Like she spins out at the end and just calls children ugly.
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I'm like that's so me. And then spoiler letter throws
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herself under a train. I'm like, Oh my God, so me.
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I think you'll like some of the other reviews.
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Infuriatingly boring. The last 25 pages are a
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philosophical essay cloned in fiction.
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What's wrong with that? That's what's so good about it.
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I love a meandering story that goes nowhere, really.
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I can't think of any reason Tulsa I would have stuck this at
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the end of an 800 plus page novel unless A he was worried
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that the previous 776 pages didn't convey his purpose or B
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he realised his ideas were too half bombed to warrant a
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straightforward essay. They're just not really a
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swearer. They're just moaning.
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They're just moaning for the sake of it.
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It's a great book. This person said it was a slog
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and said I hated Anna. I hated her ineffectual husband,
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Alexey Alexandrovich. Yeah.
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Is that pronounced? Yeah.
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I hated Camp Vronsky. I hated Princess Kitty.
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I hated Kitty's entire superficial family.
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I hated the Asitic. Is that how you say it?
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11 or ascetic? And really, if you read Anna
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Karenina, the Russian Revolution makes total sense.
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Early in the novel, a railway worker falls into the path of a
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moving train and is killed. A horrible human tragedy in
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which one moved to compassion? Nah.
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To Anna, it's merely a sign of the upcoming bad luck for
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members of her privileged set. Well yes, she's fairly self
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absorbed but but it did the thing of her her brother.
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Her brother has an affair in the beginning and he remains his
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social status even though he had an affair with like it was like
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it was like the maiden who like lived in the the nanny or
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something. Whereas Anna has an affair and
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loses everything. And Tolstoy, he wouldn't
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describe himself as a feminist, I don't think.
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But it very much is a bit of a feminist novel.
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Well, we were discussing that over on the video we did for
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your channel, didn't we? About, like how women are
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punished so much more harshly. Yeah.
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For less crying, essentially. Yeah.
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You know a woman doesn't smile, but a man can rape someone.
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Yeah, and Anna Creditor is basically that is a great book.
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Yeah. I I don't think think much of
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Princess Kitty Eva. She's a bit like, Oh my God,
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you're like, you're like 10 and you want to have baby like grow
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up. But it's a different type.
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Like there's a bit where she what's his name?
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Levin Levin the the, the, the the landlord.
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He wrote a letter to her to say that he had not remained pure
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and he had like he'd basically he wasn't a virgin And she like
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reason is like sick and crying a frog.
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Oh, I like this so so me that's. Very EastEnders.
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You know I love my EastEnders. So dramatic.
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OK, one for one. What's the next one?
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Right, this one you've definitely read.
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People liking this book should be studied.
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Is it a Colleen Hoover book? No, too vague.
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There's only one word I could use to describe this book.
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Disgusting. Is it like a sexy book?
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Some might think so. 50 Shades. No, every character in this book
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needs therapy, and now I do as well.
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Credence, Credence. I'm so I'm so good at this.
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I lick my big brain. I.
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I thought you were going to get it on like a couple of the
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others. So has anyone checked on
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straight people recently? Fair.
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If a genie gave me 3 wishes, I'd use all three of them to make
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sure Penelope Douglas never writes another book again.
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This was truly and utterly horrible.
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It's like looking at a train wreck.
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You want to look away, but you can't.
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And honestly, the worst part of this book isn't even the small
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incest. No, the worst part is how it's
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written. Genuinely, genuinely, genuinely
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the worst part of the work. I mean, by the end of Credence I
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basically because you know, she sleeps with the step uncle and
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then she has a threesome with her step cousins.
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Which do you know? I didn't know.
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That. Are you going to review it?
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Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She has like a threesome with
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her step cousins. One of them has like a really
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big And so he does it in the ego.
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I thought you were saying the Russian name then.
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Like like like no, there's no ego ego Regosian in this book.
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He like so when she's hand the freesome, he puts it in her
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butt. No Lube, massive and no Lube,
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and she's never done it before and it's like behave, but like
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by the end of it, you know, because she suits the step uncle
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first. I wanted them to get together.
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If she had to be with someone in this weird mountain top like
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place, the the step uncle who's twice her age was genuinely a
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better option than the the the rapist of the woods who she ends
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up with. Oh, it's so bad, the rapist of
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the wood. Yeah, he's like this.
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He lives in the woods and he's always like covered in dear
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blood. He comes in the first time he
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sees the the girl. He tries to, he does.
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He does try to rape her. And then they make fun of at the
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end of the books they get together and he's like, oh,
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remember when? And he's like mute.
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He's mute for most of it. They love realise.
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No, it's so stupid. She should have ended up with
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the step uncle. I have I reviewed any Penelope
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Douglas. I don't think you have, because
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I think you would be astonished, because Colleen's better.
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Who did? There was another rapey one that
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I reviewed. Oh.
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The one of millions? Well, yeah, that's all that the
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market wants these days. No I can't.
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I feel like it was her. It was like about these like 4
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basketball players or something and I don't know.
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Did they like run a train on someone?
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Well, at one point, yeah, kind of.
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OK. This one.
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This is interesting. This might be the worst book
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I've ever tried to read. I literally might use it as
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kindling this summer. Too big.
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Could be anything. OK, author does drugs, has sex
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and Hertz or rips off every person he encounters along the
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way. Repeat for over 300 pages.
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The persona is so obviously affected.
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From the mock estuary style language which mainly consists
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of using the word where oh sorry were as often and non
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grammatically as possible to the name dropping of books read in
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high school. Baudelaire, Chomsky, Guevara.
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Is that how you pronounce it? And an artist like Kandinsky and
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Henry Moore? The constant name dropping of
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Walliams and Fielding perhaps doesn't bode well for the trio
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given the rapidly closing rapidly closing net of Yew Tree
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2 point O. That should give me some big
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hints in there. Yew Tree and wallet.
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Williams and Fielding as in David Walliams and Noel
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Fielding. Russell Brand, Becky Wirks.
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I had to put this on in. Yeah, yeah.
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There's oh, I, I there's stuff about like while you see it
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everywhere, but like nothing's nothing's ever kind of like.
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Yeah, but his, his publishers dropped him now.
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Yeah. So I think there was something
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behind the scenes, like where they knew something and there's
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life. Ever.
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Well. I think it was you who told me
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or something that. Do you remember when Catherine
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Ryan said ages ago there's someone, like, who everyone
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knows behind the scenes? He's a predator of a rapist?
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Yeah. And he's still like really
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wildly popular and successful and like.
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And it's about brand, yeah. Oh, no, you, you told me that
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you thought it was David Williams.
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Oh, no. If it was Catherine Ryan, she's
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been making allusions to Russell Brand for like, ages.
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But the David Walliams thing, it's just one of these things of
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like when I, when I was researching into like more about
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Russell Brand. Williams is a name that does
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crop up a lot, but I don't think there's anything like out about
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him. So it's just we're just going to
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wait and see. Yeah, hurrah.
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OK, we've got another one. This one I'm.
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Yeah, you have read it. I'm sure you have, because
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you've told me about it. I do say a lot though.
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This book is about observations. A lot of really boring
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observations. A lot.
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Of really boring observations, but a whole book of it.
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We're just talking about other people apparently.
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Talking about other people for a whole book.
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I wouldn't say that that's what this.
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But you've read it, yeah. Give.
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Me another one. OK, arduous read.
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Nebulous, implausible premise, unlikable characters, inferior
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execution. The lack of quotation Marks and
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other punctuation is jarring and only sews confusion.
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Dialogue interspersed in text is lethargic.
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The narrative is already sluggish.
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The failure to delineate what's what's happening now and what is
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a flashback is a hallmark of the impotence that epitomises this.
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Book Requiem for a Dream. No.
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Because there's no punctuation in that one.
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But there what? There's no punctuation in this
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one. It's a long time since I read it
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but I don't remember that. But apparently not.
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I mean there is punctuation but I think it's just speech isn't
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in speech marks. I think it's a long time since I
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read it. I studied it in school if that's
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a hint. Oh, is it like an older one?
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Not. That old.
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If you're studying at school, give me another one.
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OK, did not live up to the hype. It's no wonder I never really
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heard about this book until the TV series came out.
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Actress in that is terrific. This book.
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Slow, convoluted writing and not credible plot.
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It seems to be a book written over 30 years ago which suddenly
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became relevant in the age of We All Hate Men, You.
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Said TV series. I immediately thought of like
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heated rivalry. It's not going to be that if you
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study, if you studied it at school.
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Yeah, studied heated rivalry in school.
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I think I have to say leave school if that was part of the
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curriculum. What?
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No punctuation? We hate men.
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Observations about people don't. Focus too much on the
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punctuation thing, because that's not a huge part of
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anything. Observations about people and
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learning at school. Learning it at school.
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I'm in school in ages. I did it at sixth form if that
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helps. Give me enough one, give me
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enough one. This one's hard.
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Read this book, they told me you'll love it since you like
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dystopian so much. Author is such an amazing
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author. They told me you'll love her.
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All of you said that to me. You lied through your damn
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teeth. Did your nose grow as any of you
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were saying this to me? This is the worst dystopian
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novel I have ever read. It's boring, dry and over
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descriptive. I knew I was in trouble when I
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read the first 30 pages and had no idea what I read because I
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think I lost consciousness so I had to reread the first 30 pages
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all over again. I found myself doing that quite
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often throughout the book. I really don't understand the
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fascination that some people have with this book.
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There are so many other dystopian novels out there that
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are so much better. My apologies to all her fans,
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but I would really rather watch paint dry than be subjected to
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another one of her novels. Handmaid's Tale.
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Yes. Because it's so boring.
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I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
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And you know it like I. Liked it?
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For me, for me, I mean, I because I understand why it has
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to be boring because she's just stuck in the house.
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But I'm like and the and the TV show as well.
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The TV show. I mean the first season all
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right, but afterwards diabolical.
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No Handmaid's tale because I found it incredibly boring as
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well. But it's weird though, because
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it's predicted America quite well.
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Oh. My God, tell me about it.
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So. You'll then like this next
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review for it. Let's pretend that an extreme
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radical feminist sat down to write a book about what the
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world would look like if if the other side took over the US.
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Then let's say she doesn't know as much about Christianity as
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she thinks, so she grabs a couple of Sam Harris and
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Christopher Hitchens books to catch up on the topic.
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The result is The Handmaid's Tale.
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If I was to make a short list of the most overrated books I've
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ever read, this would easily be in the top ten.
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Strike that top five. In fact, off the top of my head,
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I can only think of one book I would consider even more
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overrated. I, yeah, I couldn't get through
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it, but I also, I also couldn't get through Wuthering Heights
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and I've tried both the book and the audio book and I'm just
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like, I just don't care, dude, I'm sorry.
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I. Like the writing in Wuthering
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Heights, but I'm not personally a fan of the story.
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I know it's meant to be about like this toxic relationship and
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showing all that, but it's it's just not for me which I.
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Don't mind, I like I like a toxic relationship with this
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done well, it doesn't do it for me.
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OK, this one I am also pretty sure you should have definitely
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read it and the first review is just well named.
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Well named. Oh that's so annoying. 50 Shades
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of Grey. That's going to be my default
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and. Save yourself the boredom and
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just watch the movie. Twilight no OK made me go into a
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book slump. There were only two characters
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and 70% of the book was the main character talking about how fat
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the other one was. This book sounds great.
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How fat the other one was. I like this book as well.
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So you like this book? It's well named and it's just
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someone roasting someone for their weight.
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It's actually like someone roasting someone for their
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weight. It happens at intervals.
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Like fat shaming them. 22 characters?
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Really only two characters? Ah yes, how nice it is to read
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disgusting descriptions of the woman's body, misogynistic
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undertones, and pages on top of pages of his first person
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perspective and still to find a character that's uninteresting
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AF. American Psycho.
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And not as developed as it should have been, no.
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You're. You're getting closer though.
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I like American Psycho anyway. Yeah, it's good.
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I just read Victorian Psycho, which I thought was going to
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have like kind of similarly vibes.
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It kind of did, but I was also a little underwhelmed.
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But it's. OK so a boring main character
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and he just keeps talking because American Psycho he would
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be talking about how fat people are talk about how fat someone
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is. Somehow fat someone is talk
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about how fat someone is. This is not ringing any verse
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this is this is going to annoy me.
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I hated everything about this book.
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I hated the characters, I hated the plot, I hated the emphasis
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on putting the protagonist through graphic torture and
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mutilation, and I hated that there wasn't really any point to
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it all. The recent trend in torture porn
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in horror films almost certainly took their cues, at least in
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part, from this book. At least the title is the most
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accurate description I've seen of this book.
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Torch. This literally just sounds like
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American Psycho. This is stumping me.
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Wait, give me a clue. Give me a clue.
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Give me a little hint. You're not the only one stumped.
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Stumped. Stumped.
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Kind of. Stumped.
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Is that the the book title? Stumped.
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But someone does have stumps in it.
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Someone has. Essentially.
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Tommy got his gun. No.
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OK, OK, I've. Got another one and.
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Someone has stumps in it. Kind of there's.
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Two people, There's two people. Someone's talking about being
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fat and like they've got stumps. What the hell?
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What kind of book is this? This sounds great.
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I'm going to buy it. If I've never read it, I'm going
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to buy it, I think. You do know it, and you'll get
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what I mean by that. You will.
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You will. Stump.
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I liked the concept, but man did the author butcher it.
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No wonder he had to write this in his coke Bender phase.
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Ain't no other way someone could continue to write this.
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Coke Bender phase. So it's a Stephen Kingberg.
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Yes, it's a Stephen Kingberg. Oh shit.
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Someone's talking about, someone's told, someone's,
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someone's got stumps. No, no, no.
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Leg cut off like misery. Mystery is a good book.
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What are they talking about is great.
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Mystery is a great book. It's so like dread.
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It's so fucking good. These people are cooked.
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These people are cooked what they're talking about.
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It was my first. Stephen King book I read and I
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loved it. It's really, genuinely really
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good. The one he wrote in like a
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proper coke filled Bender was Cujo.
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He doesn't remember Cujo is this big.
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He doesn't remember writing it at all.
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Pet cemetery as well, wasn't it? I think that symmetry might have
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been early on in his career. He was on a lot of drugs for the
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ages. OK, this one is simply just no.
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50 Shades of grey. Yeah, no.
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Incredibly predictable, highly overrated, and full of
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characters and ridiculous moments I disliked.
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It doesn't narrow it down. That's so subjective.
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This next one's so big. What I didn't like every single
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word, paragraph, character, and brain cell.
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This book wasted. What?
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I liked the ending because it meant I was finally free from
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the stumps to fire in disguise. Twilight.
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No. It doesn't narrow it down.
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This isn't a romance, but half of book talk are not ready for
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that conversation. So if it's book talk popular and
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it's just awful, is it a coho that doesn't narrow it down?
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She's got like 30 books. She's like they're all terrible.
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It's not it ends of us. Yes, is it?
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Yeah, because everyone in change book at this point you could.
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Just say. Apart from Woman down, Woman
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Down's great. Oh.
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I hated. It, I love it.
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It's so funny, so funny. I love saying.
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I love how she tried to be self aware and it's just like it
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feels so miserably. It's so stupid that's.
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What makes it fun? And it's just like her, the
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whole the introduction to the book is just her ranting at
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people who criticised her like it.
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I she should have just added me next time.
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I think it's great. I mean, we, she.
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Definitely watches videos about her I.
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Think I think she got a bit a bit better with this one though.
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I think the the. Writing is.
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Better cyber bullying is working.
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Yeah, I did. You're welcome, Koho.
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I did give it two stars. That's that's an improvement
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from one. I was like, you know what, this
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it made me laugh so much. I told my boyfriend about like
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the plot of it and he'd been drinking.
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So he was just he was he was into it.
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He was like, no, and like, you know, the bit where she's having
19:25
sex with her husband then Saints that I was like, dude, when I
19:28
read that bit, I laughed so hard and my boyfriend was like, this
19:31
book sounds amazing. What?
19:32
Happened to the husband in the end, I can't remember.
19:35
Oh, they stayed. They stayed together.
19:37
Yeah, they stayed together. Of course she did.
19:38
She should have ran away and been with St like that man was
19:40
crazy. He did it all so she would just
19:41
write a new book. It's.
19:43
A lot, isn't it, if one of your fans did that.
19:45
Yeah, be all right with it. OK, so this is the last one that
19:49
I've got. Your phone lights on.
19:50
Oh. Thank you.
19:52
So this is the last one we've got.
19:53
I'm just going to put you in the spotlight for it.
19:54
OK. This one, I don't actually know
19:56
if you've read. This is the only one here that I
19:57
don't know if you have or not. If this is one of my reviews, as
20:01
in a bad review of my book, bad real book, yeah, it's Morgan.
20:05
If you can love her. I don't know if you've read, but
20:08
yeah. So I will say this, 75% of the
20:12
negative reviews on here were from white men, the rest were
20:15
from white women. OK, so men didn't like it.
20:18
White men gone Girl No. Oh, the people who did dislike
20:24
it as well. I went to look at some of their
20:25
profiles and they all had like good read shells with names like
20:28
Christian fiction and Amish fiction and stuff like that.
20:32
So I think the people who dislike this book.
20:35
Are religious. Yeah, yeah, sure.
20:37
OK, OK. And very white.
20:40
OK. This is the kind of book you'd
20:42
have hard time expressing your dislike of in fear of people
20:45
calling you racist. Infer of people calling you
20:47
racist. Infer of people when you're
20:49
racist. So, so obviously deals with
20:53
race. Yeah, I don't know.
20:55
To Kill a Mockingbird. No, actually, dear God, sorry.
20:59
I can't. I get that it's a classic.
21:01
I get that it's important. I even liked the plot, but I
21:07
hated every second I spent reading it.
21:09
Really, really not for me. I'm going to hell now.
21:12
Bye. So it's a classic.
21:15
So it's a classic and. I also studied this in school.
21:18
It's a classic that deals with race and racism.
21:20
I'm going to say, oh God, no. I'm showing my whiteness because
21:24
I'm like, is this not like 100 years ago books were very
21:27
tactful? Is it like over 100 years old?
21:30
It says more recent a more recent classic that deals with
21:34
race. Set in America, granted.
21:37
Yeah yeah yeah. One of the trashiest books I've
21:41
ever read. A crude, grotesque, reactionary
21:44
period piece novel set 50 years in the past in a black sorry in
21:48
a black water in a backwater town beset with constant
21:50
violence and suffering. It's grotesque because every
21:53
chapter brings some new atrocity, incest, rape,
21:56
adultery, beating. It's crude because of its
21:59
language and the shamelessness of most of its characters.
22:02
It's reactionary because it's extremely biassed.
22:05
It's not just a cathartic kind of novel, but also a very one
22:08
sided one as well. Men are mostly portrayed as
22:11
monsters or buffoons and women as sympathetic victims.
22:15
I'm pretty sure 90% of the book's fanbase is female.
22:18
We can forgive the author for her style of writing.
22:21
The language is crass but different and suits the
22:24
narrative. The problem is everything else
22:25
is just a mess. Yeah, Before you said that, I
22:28
was going to think what about hoes because that it's basically
22:32
a classic now and. Incest in hoes.
22:35
OK, so it's not hoes hoes. What a funny name for a book.
22:40
Incest incest Backwater S South America.
22:46
It's like a South America. I don't know The Adventures of
22:49
Huckleberry Finn. No, but you're.
22:53
South backwater, racism, incest, men being buffoons.
22:58
That's any book to be honest. Men are buffoons.
23:00
Just write what you know. But the you know, the fan base
23:03
they're saying is mainly women sympathetic to women.
23:07
Is there like a film based on this book or?
23:10
Yeah, doesn't know. I think there's a musical as
23:12
well. A musical.
23:14
A musical. Not Chicago, Not Chicago.
23:18
A musical, maybe. And a film.
23:21
Oh, I'm stunned. Like the bloke in misery he got,
23:26
he got hobbled technically. I felt so bad using that as a
23:29
clue, but when you said it, it's not like a thing.
23:31
But I was thinking of like, you know, pirates where they have
23:34
like, peg legs. I was thinking that.
23:35
I was thinking, it's OK, so there's pirates, but there's
23:37
only two of them. Are they shipwrecked?
23:39
They're magically through with pirates.
23:44
You. Could do it, you could do it.
23:46
It's sort of like a snowy Snowden place.
23:48
It's like beach wrecked. Stephen King would write that.
23:53
We can't give him ideas. He'll write anything.
23:55
He'll be like, oh, look at this spooky microphone.
23:59
OK, good. All right.
24:00
I'm failing on this one. I'm enjoying a blank.
24:02
It kept me completely enthralled until about halfway through.
24:05
It introduced detailed erotic descriptions of sexual relations
24:09
between women. This is about gay women
24:14
killjoys. These people are so boring.
24:19
Oh, is it like, is it like Little Women?
24:22
No, I've never read that other women gay.
24:25
They're not, no. Well, one of them people say
24:28
she's kind of queer coded. Sure.
24:30
No, I'm not a fan of Little Women.
24:32
I've never. That's sacrilegious to say, like
24:35
in the book community. But as classics go, I hate it.
24:38
That's fair enough. I mean, it's on site with me
24:40
and. Yeah, someone previously said
24:44
this book should have been titled The colour Blue.
24:48
The author is trying too hard. Honestly, she should have been
24:51
taking care of her daughter instead of writing this
24:54
missandrist book. Shouldn't be taking care of her
24:56
daughter. So that's getting personal.
24:58
So there's an issue with her daughter and it's recent enough.
25:02
Like pro 50 years, past 50 years has a daughter, missandrist.
25:08
Missandrist. Summary And men and white people
25:12
are evil. Only lesbianism and
25:14
primitiveness can save African American women.
25:17
I wouldn't even consider this a book with the disgusting
25:20
language, wild fantasies and illiterate writing.
25:22
I've no idea. The one star reviews are pretty
25:25
racist. Yeah, yeah, they're pretty
25:27
crazy. This book is on the banned list
25:30
of books and in my humble opinion it should stay there.
25:33
I made the mistake of not reading why it's banned, I just
25:36
knew I'd heard of it before and it sounded interesting.
25:39
Whoops. This book is definitely rated R
25:41
and holds a lot of morally wrong actions.
25:44
It opens with the fairly graphic telling of a child rape, which
25:47
should have been enough to tell me to put it down.
25:49
It's not justified at all. It's like tragic back story and
25:53
relevant. The rest of the book includes
25:55
multiple partners, lesbian activity, and so much more.
26:00
Not to mention the fact that all but one of the men in the book
26:04
are portrayed as wife beaters and rapists.
26:07
And then there's the part where they come to the conclusion that
26:10
God is not a he or a she or an anything we can imagine, but is
26:14
nature and the universe and the inner part of us.
26:17
So yeah, I can completely understand why schools have
26:19
banned this book. I have no idea.
26:21
This book sounds like a rules though.
26:23
It's great. It's The Color Purple by Alice.
26:24
Walker No. Never read it.
26:26
Never read it. I would have known.
26:27
Sorry, that's the one that I didn't think you might have
26:29
read. And you get the others.
26:32
So what? Happens in it.
26:34
So basically it's following this woman from her childhood into
26:37
adulthood, and she is raped from a young age and she's
26:42
impregnated by her father and she has the babies and then he
26:45
takes them away and essentially, like, sells them to someone.
26:48
What the hell? Yeah, it's horrible.
26:49
And then he basically, as she gets older and she's 20, he's
26:53
like essentially selling her off to another man's.
26:55
You're too old for me now, babe. Kind of, yeah, That's crazy.
26:58
And he marries her off to this other man who's much, much older
27:01
than her, and he's already got kids, and she has to take care
27:04
of these kids. And meanwhile, he's off having
27:07
an affair with another woman who's like, a singer.
27:10
And through meeting this singer, this woman actually becomes
27:14
friends with her. And they get really close.
27:15
And she discovers that actually, like, you know, sex isn't just
27:19
about rape and pain and a man getting what he wants.
27:23
But she has a relationship with this woman, and it becomes
27:25
sexual. And she finally kind of learns
27:26
to understand herself. And.
27:28
Yeah. And there's a lot of, like, what
27:31
it's like to live in that kind of, I guess, like, area of
27:36
America and the racism that people face and the judgments
27:38
that are cast on people and stuff.
27:40
And yeah, it's interesting. It's good.
27:42
Yeah. Yeah.
27:43
I studied in school. Like I say, I enjoyed it.
27:45
I did like a whole paper when I was like, 16 on.
27:47
And that's an American thing to say.
27:49
Call it a paper rather than like an essay.
27:50
Oh, my God. And.
27:51
I was in sophomore year. Freshman, it just sounds wrong
27:56
out of our mouths, doesn't. It paper.
27:58
Paper. Yeah, I did paper.
28:00
No, I did this essay on basically like portrayals of
28:03
female sexuality throughout literature.
28:06
And I chose to look at it from like a really intersexual lens.
28:09
So looking at it from like, you know, the angles of like how
28:14
women are demonised with their sexuality, also how it's
28:17
celebrated, how often black women in particular are
28:20
demonised for it. But for them it can be this
28:22
cause of like beautiful celebration and self
28:24
realisation. And I looked at it through like
28:27
all these different ages. So I did like kind of pre
28:29
feminism first wave, second wave to the wave.
28:32
And yeah, it's really interesting.
28:33
I enjoyed. It Yeah, there's a specific term
28:35
for misogyny against black women.
28:36
It's like misogyny. Misogynoir.
28:40
Sounds interesting. Those people are cooked.
28:41
Yeah, I know, right? Gaffing about God.
28:44
So. Yeah, you did really well there.
28:46
I've got two of them, except The Color Purple.
28:49
Yeah. This brain, you can't fuck this
28:50
brain. This brain's so good.
28:52
I can't believe they did like Misery though, like growing up
28:54
like him. And his coke era is probably
28:56
like one of his better eras for writing as well.
28:58
I am surprised that they picked up something that is marketed as
29:00
like a horror and a thriller, and we're like, Oh my God, it's
29:02
too gruesome. Why is it foreign?
29:04
Yeah. Right.
29:05
God, you. Know what you're reading.
29:08
The film is fantastic though. The film's really good.
29:12
Yeah, I think it's one of the few books where like film and
29:14
book are pretty much on a path with each other.
29:17
Yeah, because they do the thing, the film when when she's
29:19
hobbling him with the sledgehammer, they don't cut
29:22
away. They do just show it.
29:23
There was something similar in the book adaptation, the film
29:27
adaptation of Gerald's Game, because in Gerald's Game she
29:30
like she's handcuffed to the bed and she degloves herself
29:32
essentially. And I think I've not seen the
29:34
film, but I think they do like show the whole thing.
29:35
I would go, I can't deal with that.
29:37
I can't deal with that, no. No, don't like that.
29:40
That's fun. We should do it.
29:42
Yeah, we should do it again. OK.
29:43
Right now. Right now.
29:45
Right now because I feel so smart and big brained.
29:47
Good. You are smart and big brained.
29:49
I like how I got, I like how I got Anagrenda from it.
29:51
It's too long. It's too long if they're talking
29:55
about farming Anagrenda. You got some of them really
29:59
quick, which was good. I yeah, I enjoyed that.
30:01
Well there's a self selection bias going on though because you
30:04
were picking ones that she's going to know.
30:05
This so smart I learned. I learned the phrase self
30:09
selection bias like a week ago. People keep saying it's a new
30:13
thing that people keep saying self selecting.
30:14
I'm like OK what? TikTok has gotten popular.
30:16
Why are people using the term? Yeah, when you hear something
30:19
popping up, it's usually like a TikTok.
30:20
That's doesn't it? 100% because I because I always
30:22
then feel a bit like oh do I just not know things Am I
30:24
stupid? And it's like no some TikTok has
30:26
gotten popular and they've said that bloody term self selecting.
30:29
But it's true though, it's. Ugly.
30:31
It's useful, but I guess it's like, you know, when everyone
30:34
was like calling everyone a narcissist and it was like that,
30:38
yeah, that I think started on TikTok, didn't it?
30:40
And it just got crazy. Yeah, it's like sometimes people
30:42
aren't narcissists. Sometimes they're just assholes.
30:44
We don't need to look that I'm a bit of narcissists.
30:46
I I definitely have some like tropes, some like traits, sorry,
30:49
not tropes. And there were little traits
30:51
going on. Well, like sociopath as well.
30:53
Do you remember when this is so off topic for whatever, we've
30:55
got like a few more minutes. Do you remember when, like
30:58
people were calling Logan four years ago a sociopath?
31:01
And then he said in a video, I have sociopathic traits.
31:03
I think everyone does. And everyone on the inset was
31:05
like, Oh my God, no, like, like, how, how dare you?
31:08
And I watched it and I was like, if you look at the traits for
31:10
sociopath, all of most of us are going to have at least one.
31:13
I might have a few. I'm having people jumping down
31:16
his throat. They were acting as though he
31:18
was like a, and there's a lot of issues.
31:19
Logan Paul. I'm not defending him, but I am
31:20
saying that people then acted as though he was like a diagnosed
31:23
psychopath who's going to like kill someone.
31:25
People were acting great. Do you remember it was that time
31:26
period where people being very hysterical over things?
31:30
Like it was the Shane Dawson documentary era.
31:32
Everyone was a yeah, everything then.
31:35
Yeah, it was overhyped. And then because it was younger
31:37
audience as well, because you always have to, you always have
31:39
to remember like, oh, who is on the other side of this comment?
31:42
Are they perhaps 15? Because imagine what we'd been
31:45
like if we had social media at the age of like 12.
31:47
Don't. Yeah, that's so.
31:49
Bad. I've been cancelled like a
31:50
million times. I I keep getting like memories
31:54
popping up on Facebook of like just like really weird cringy
31:57
things and like being a teenager and I'm like, oh, should I just
32:00
wipe it all? It's not even anything like bad
32:03
or anything. It's just, no, it's just cringe.
32:05
It's just cringe like I see I see like comment threads of like
32:07
me and my best friend and we're so dumb and I attacked him 1 and
32:10
I was like dude 12 years ago we were so dumb.
32:12
We still act the same now maybe. It's less cringy now.
32:16
Yeah it's OK. Like the the lower Gen have an
32:18
issue of being seen as cringe, so they don't do anything.
32:22
That's a generalisation. I know, I know.
32:23
But like, reportedly, like people go to clubs and they
32:26
don't because they because, well, they're in they're in this
32:28
age where everything is caught on camera and can go viral on
32:31
TikTok. So you don't even want to like,
32:33
you know, be a little bit drunk, be a little bit messy at a club
32:35
because your friends or like enemies might, which is kind of
32:38
sad, though. It's too it's too
32:39
self-conscious. I feel like I'm reaching a
32:42
really good point in my life now, and I'm at an age where
32:44
like I'm kind of embracing the cringe a little bit and I like
32:47
that and I like just being silly.
32:48
Just being silly. Being a silly young woman is so
32:50
good. Like it's so freeing, I.
32:52
Can dance sober now and like, you know, I'm not afraid to look
32:55
silly and just like, go crazy. Dance sober too.
32:58
I wouldn't even dodge drunk, but I do a little a little bit of
33:01
like if I go to a gig, I don't stand there like looking angry
33:04
anymore like enjoy it a little bit and like get a bit looser.
33:08
Yeah, I'll. Have a good dance.
33:10
Been dancing in so long? Yeah.
33:12
Should go dancing. Yeah.
33:12
OK. And check it.
33:13
It's too hot. Did you?
33:14
Have a train together. Yes, you have a train to get.
33:16
A train to get so we should wrap this up.
33:18
That's all for today's video. Oh.
33:20
God, thank, thank you for being here on my channel.
33:22
I appreciate this. It's very fun.
33:25
It's so fun. And you were like, I don't like
33:26
quizzes until you get them all right.
33:29
Well, because if I get it wrong then I'm very competitive.
33:31
So I'm very like I can't be seen lacking in any department.
33:35
Okay, if you come to one of my quiz nights, I'll do like a
33:36
whole round just on you and obviously none of my friends
33:40
will know you. YouTube drama I'm there do like
33:46
a Dramageddon YouTube themed quiz that would go viral on
33:48
Tiktok. You know what?
33:49
I think my friends would love that.
33:51
We should do that. Yeah, that would.
33:52
Be really. Oh my God, can we Yes.
33:53
OK, let's. What are the words that Tarti
33:55
said that James said at her birthday dinner?
33:58
Like you did it at my birthday dinner.
34:00
But what did James say? You know what?
34:02
I don't know that. And he was talking about how
34:04
like basically, oh, he found the way to hot and it was like
34:08
really inappropriate. And they were like, oh, he might
34:10
be straight. And he was being like, I've got
34:11
enough money. I can sleep who I want.
34:14
She was basically being like, doesn't matter if they're
34:15
straight. Alleged.
34:16
Oh, it's Tarty's video, Leave me alone.
34:18
It was so tarty. It said yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:20
It was basically like, oh, I can have sex with anyone I want
34:23
because I'm rich. He's so scummy, he bothers me.
34:26
His face, just in general. Bothers me I think.
34:31
Everyone feels that way about him, Alex.
34:33
I can't believe like I watched this stuff years ago.
34:36
It's so weird looking. Back I never liked it anyway he
34:38
had this one video about this egg that got the most amount of
34:40
likes on Instagram. I remember that, yeah, yeah.
34:42
But like his video, the 1st 5 minutes was him just repeating
34:45
going there is an egg on Instagram, on Instagram there is
34:48
an egg it got and it's just doing that and it's like it's no
34:51
word for it. It's like an aphora, an aphora
34:52
where it's just like repetitive. Like it was just that for the
34:55
and I was like this has got 1,000,000 views.
34:57
What's wrong with you people watching this?
34:59
I kind of hate that whole commentary bro collective.
35:05
They don't, they don't have it somewhere.
35:07
There's no like English commentary, bro.
35:08
But I know what you mean. I know who you're talking about.
35:10
From that era, that whole yeah, not fun, except I know, but he's
35:14
lovely. Well, they'll bullied him, yeah.
35:16
So sweetheart, but look at him now, he's like the only non
35:19
problematic 1. We'll bully them.
35:21
We'll bully them. Yeah, we'll protective over
35:23
Frasier. I don't even know him but I feel
35:25
like his big. Sister, I've literally I've
35:26
never, I've never met him like I've spoken to him.
35:29
I feel very protective over him too when he.
35:32
Follows me on Instagram. I'm like, now I feel like I have
35:35
to like, like, I do feel like we're his Big Sisters and we
35:37
need to just stand up for it. He's so much bigger than us.
35:39
Like channel. One, he's like 7 foot tall.
35:41
He's like, he's like Gary. What's the what's the guy from
35:44
take that? Gary Barlow.
35:45
He's like Gary Barlow's son. Gary Barlow's son is massive.
35:49
He's just like. I I liked that other one from
35:53
Take That, the one who had the longer hair.
35:55
Wouldn't know. I like Robbie Williams because
35:58
he looks, he tries to hunt for aliens.
36:00
He's a UFO hunter. I love it.
36:02
I want to get I want to get him on a documentary with me.
36:05
Oh my God, did you see that musical they made that was like
36:08
a take that jukebox musical and it was fantastic.
36:12
And it was about like these like a group of like kids who like,
36:17
they're really into the band back in the day, and then they
36:19
grow up and they're like going to a reunion concert.
36:22
And it's like, it's not Take That in the film, but it's like
36:24
implied. It's like Take That.
36:25
And it's just really wholesome. I enjoyed it.
36:27
No, but we should probably wrap up.
36:29
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