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“It might also be accompanied by several revisionist theories Trump had about Watergate and how Nixon had been framed.”

This explains so much

I really want Wolff to just use the phrase “ride-or-die chick” here, it’s what he’s taking over a paragraph to describe.

I guess that’s my only complaint with the book so far, Wolff rambles a little.

If there’s going to be a national book club for this book I propose we make it one at a bar

I like political nonfiction as a general rule, but this one is like a train wreck I can’t look away from but desperately want to escape

“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.”

This is so good

This is the most difficult book I've ever read

Ian Fleming sure likes the word "ironical"

This book is stressful

"Maybe sometimes silence = necessary stealth"

Jesus fucking christ this book is upsetting

This book is amazing but it's hard to finish quickly

UGH I'M ALMOST DONE BUT I HAVE TO GET BACK TO WORK

This book is so short I'm going to blow through it on my break :(

Out of the tropes presented I'm either the over enthusiastic suburban transplant or the person who has lived outside of the city for years but is realistic about urban living.

Noooooo Shaggy why would you ever read the Necronomicon out loud

*screams in delight at Velma being an ass-kicking queer latina*

IS IT TWEEN OR TEEN WHY IS IT SO HARD TO FIGURE OUT

This is the cute-stupid thing I needed today.

"I'm no expert, but I don't think a bitch who makes her own kombucha is the same bitch sitting around in her house bra for hours on end watching old episodes of Roseanne. Because I am that bitch, and kombucha is disgusting."

Feeling this book on a spiritual level.

OK you took a little too long to talk about how campus cops aren't effective on the current rape epidemic.

You had me until you started praising campus police forces.

"I think of my childhood as a kind of slavery - certainly an imprisonment of sorts - but am not sure, even all these decades later, that I have ever escaped, ever reached anything but the most transitory sort of freedom."

...it's going to take me a while to get through this book but god damn.

I just noticed a typo.

I swear I'm finally going to finish this book.

"The treachery of this disease will make liars of us both."

...I can only read this in short spurts because it is capital-h Heavy.

If you or your friends have ever joked "apply to something with the confidence of a mediocre white man" you should read this book and believe in that phrase anew.

"We are still killing black youth because we have not yet killed white supremacy."

It's difficult to read this one quickly.

I still like it I think? But it's becoming a chore to finish because I can see exactly where it's headed.