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Anyone here actually read this?? Is it any good?

>> No.15100786
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>> No.15100803

>>15100785
Yikes man there's no possible way this is a good book.

>> No.15100939

9/10 times any history/non fic book that’s been on a best sellers list, let alone NYT’s is garbage.

>> No.15100951

Into the trash it goes!

>> No.15100963

>>15100785
Shapiro is an ideologue. I expect this to be no better than anything else he has written.

>> No.15100966

>Not reading objectivity shitty books for fun
Retards

>> No.15100965

>If your house gets destroyed in a flood, just sell it and move

>> No.15101067

>>15100966
I feel like it would be more laborious than fun in this case.

>> No.15101079

>>15101067
Past a certain point you learn to savor the tedium, enjoying the aesthetic experience of all things is enlightenment

>> No.15101081

>>15100966
I read 12 Rules for Life in this spirit and regretted it intensely

>> No.15101098

from the thumbnail, the torch looks like a red foot

>> No.15101107

>>15101079
I dunno man, my hours of life are finite, and there are already a ton of more entertaining books to read.

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>>15100785
watch this first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VixqvOcK8E

>> No.15102708

yes its really good

>> No.15103287

>>15100785
From what I have heard it is embarrassingly bad

>> No.15103301

>One theory suggests that it derives from Shpira, the Hebrew/Yiddish name for Spira (Hebrew: שפירא), pronounced Shpira (which is an Aramaic borrowed word meaning "handsome").

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>the right side of history

>> No.15103354

He has some nerve to talk about reason and moral purpose when he's perfectly fine allowing drug use and gay marriage. He's consistent with his liberal principles but he roleplays as a conservative. He's not "of the right" in any meaningful sense.

>> No.15103358

Time is the best curator. Has Ben ever said something truly thought provoking to non-normies?

His knowledge in everything he talks about is just barely beyond laymen and his claim to fame is that he uses it as a cudgel on retards. Do you think someone who fits that description can write a good book?

>> No.15103367

>>15101109
Brillo got OWNED