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"I got one of their headsets. Will that help?" "Unless you know the frequency they're transmitting on, it'a s useful as a master's degree in philosophy."

heh.

I love that these books take place in the distant future and the emoticons are already dated.

I got all excited because he started talking about smart sharing, but he quickly went back to talking about how ugly buildings increase murder rates or whatever ridiculous thing.

omg this book is finally getting interesting

Seriously? She's like, "I hacked the comm and we only have seven minutes to talk! This is serious make it quick!...jokes, jokes, jokes, so how's your mom? Tell her I said hi."

Nobody acts like this. "Lol, I might get charged with espionage...let's shoot the shit like we're bored and texting in class."

This book is so stupid.

Don't teenagers find it insulting to be portrayed this way? "omg, we will totally bicker when we're about to die in the middle of a catastrophe because what are priorities?" I'm pretty sure teenagers can cut the crap when shit gets real.

man, it's weird this was what life was like 100 years ago.

Man, I'm 230 pages in and he's still in South Africa. I kinda don't want this story to end.

I find the research in this book questionable. It seems like he will pull from just about anywhere to support his conclusions, and a lot the time it seems like a pretty clear case of false causation.

I also feel like he's doing a lot of work to try to convince me, the reader, that I'm unconsciously afraid of things I'm pretty confident don't faze me a bit.

But I like being alone.

Gross, philosophy.

I want this whole book to be about Japan.

Jesus fuck aziz, if someone didn't answer your text maybe they got distracted and forgot. Just text them again, life isn't this hard.

I wasn't really feeling this book until the protagonist shit on people who like Shakespeare.

The writing style of this book keeps changing. wtf.

I started watching the documentary and it flat out contradicts the book, wtf?

Ugh, I really wish the author could decide if he's going to stick with a person's first or last name when referring to them because this is too many people to keep track of and I keep being like, "Wait, who is this?"

I feel like I'm never going to finish this book.

"The ceremony...required Hubbard to channel the female deity of Babalon as Parsons preformed the 'invocation of wand with material talisman' - in other words, masturbating on a piece of parchment. He typically invoked twice a night."

lol, this author's a real comedian.

Favorite sentence so far: "while in Miami, Hubbard contracted gonorrhea from a woman named Ginger."

I hope at some point she explains why she still uses the term "the Patriarchy" to refer to the powers that be, when by her own admission, women aren't really the target anymore, and, in fact, participate in the system almost as much as men do.

Oh man. What a minefield.

I expected more diagrams and pictures, but it's still interesting.

omg! She mentioned my hometown. This never happens.

Its started out solid, but I feel like he's starting to repeat himself a lot.

This book inspired me to read the Clinton Advisory Committee findings, like some kind of nerd.

omg, I ordered this book from goodwill and they accidentally sent me a ridiculous math book with a title I don't understand instead. lol, goddamn it. Someday the library will get this copy back.

Wow, it is really important not to look into an exploding atomic bomb because it might vaporize the inside of your eyeballs. Or give your eye doctor a really cool mushroom-cloud shaped blind spot to look at.

The librarians at work are confused by my taste in books.

This book is due back to the library tomorrow so I caved and bought a copy.