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  • WranglesGammon [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I tried reading 12 rules for life purely out of academic interest and I just couldn't listen to this insufferable prick, stopped just 3 rules in after "[he] had taken some job lawn mowing and casual landscaping, which would have been fine for a part-time university student, or for someone who could not do better, but which was wretchedly low-end as a career for an intelligent person".

    • duderium [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Was what where he was talking about his alcoholic Native American friend? I also couldn't really stick it out in that book. It's just a lot of rambling nonsense. Even the first paragraph where he talks about how delicious lobsters are grossed me out.

      • WranglesGammon [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        It's when he's shitting on some guy in his hometown for not going to college, and this guy apparently turned up stoned to Peterson's college house with his also stoned friend who does gardening, and this is all apparently disappointing and uncultured. In his audiobook (pirated from the high seas, obv) he reads the section with such disgust in his voice, it was awful