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PewDiePie reviews Ian M. Banks' Consider Phlebas
 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 00:19 [#02543420]
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I posted this to reddit and it got downvoted (it
got one downvote after 1 minute), maybe because they thought
I was trolling.

This is what I said:
I like PewDiePie and I liked this little book review. I just
like consuming any opinion on something I also like.
Also I think Consider Phlebas cost me six months to read, on
and off, because it's so slow, like most of Bank's books, so
power to him for finishing it much faster. (I think it was
mostly the last part that took me forever, I don't know
why.) Horza was indeed a great character.


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 00:25 [#02543423]
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starts at 2 minutes 7 seconds


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-05 00:29 [#02543426]
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he looks like he has been through a mental breakdown and
changed quite a bit or something


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 00:33 [#02543430]
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he stopped making videos he doesn't enjoy making (mainly
let's plays) and stopped pretending he liked doing video's
altogether (but he does like what he does now)


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-05 00:34 [#02543431]
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fair enough he is probably minted for life so he might as
well be true to himself now


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 00:38 [#02543433]
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yeah, i think so (but now the adpocalypse happened, so you
should stay in school)


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 00:54 [#02543447]
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i thought the whole vidya was great, i skipped that one
scifi book, because i haven't read it yet

Pewds will start a book club and will read Nietzsche and
Life 3.0, he says at the end


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-05 01:29 [#02543473]
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he should read Das Kapital and redistribute all his filthy
lucre to his viewers


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 01:35 [#02543483]
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i heard they kicked him out of his homeland Sweden for being
a dirty capitalist pig


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2018-02-05 01:35 [#02543484]
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we should do a zilty book club, atm I'm reading Robert
Sapolsky's Behave


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 01:45 [#02543490]
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not a shabby idea

i'd probably want to try

hope it's not too hard of a book

furthermore i'm busy and just bought four books that a kind
of slow reads

lastly i'm doing comicbookgirl19's bookclub for watchmen


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-05 01:47 [#02543494]
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I read on wikipedia he came to the ?Uk from sweden for
better internet connectivity, fucking hell things must be
dire in Sweden!


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 01:55 [#02543503]
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yeah, communism leads to bad internet. but capitalism too,
look at the fcc thing in the US. i don't know what to vote
for anymore


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-05 02:02 [#02543507]
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whoever looks like the most competent at the time i guess,
and least likely to start a war


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2018-02-05 02:03 [#02543510]
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That's got to be a joke, Sweden is supposed to be near the
top for Internets, maybe a Swedenish person can clarify


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 04:33 [#02543521]
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it's probably half a joke
he wanted to be abroad anyway and he literally took the
place with the single best internet in the world


 

offline SignedUpToLOL from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-05 08:58 [#02543522]
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No man can claim to truly understand the times we live in
unless he has been accused of being *literally* Hitler.

I've no opinion on the guy, save the default position I'd
adopt when faced by someone with a name like PewDiePie who
lived then died by YouTube. I'll watch his review of Phlebas
later.

I'm currently taking aaaaggges reading the Iluminatus!
Trilogy, I've had to keep a note of who all the characters
are to stop getting lost.

Or is that the whole point?


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-05 10:52 [#02543523]
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i think he technically said someone else was hitler, or let
poor africans say it with a sign. it was kind of funny and
satirical. but media then said he was a nazi, then later he
said the n* word. he really goes into this beautifully in
his picture of dorian gray review, also in this video.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2018-02-05 16:31 [#02543540]
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What a great trilogy that is, full of sex and magick and
conspiracy and myth and memorable characters like Hagbard
Celine and The Midget. And it's the only immunization you
ever need against getting brainswarmed by an ideology or
cult meme-complex.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-05 17:04 [#02543556]
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I really should read this book


 

offline envmod from Northern Mariana Islands on 2018-02-09 10:02 [#02543906]
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it's a fucking fantastic book


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-02-09 10:44 [#02543911]
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will definitely get it now


 

offline retape from http://retape.net (Norway) on 2018-02-09 14:15 [#02543941]
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consider phlebas owns

spewdiepie, however, does not.


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-02-09 17:38 [#02543959]
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we talking about Iluminatus or Consider Phlebas now (the
book, not the poem)


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-03-01 16:08 [#02545484]
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forgot ?


 

offline big from lsg on 2018-03-01 16:08 [#02545485]
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forgot """


 

offline SignedUpToLOL from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-03-01 17:30 [#02545488]
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I have finished Illuminatus! now - I felt exhausted when it
was over, and reluctant to leave that world. I do
feel somewhat changed after reading that book.

Sorry if, a bit like at the end of Consider Phlebas, I
derailed the thread.


 


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