Oliver Willis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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like holy shit, imagine bill clinton, obama, or jimmy carter doing shit like this? clinton co-wrote a thriller novel and its like 20,000 levels in taste above this.

Oliver Willis

This is correct. Read “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and The Unmaking of the American Consensus” https://t.co/USubBO4KwG

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dark knight returns is a phenomenal work and frank miller totally gets superman wrong https://t.co/Iw4fnoStDE

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Republicans on Toni Morrison’s Beloved like https://t.co/rxTC7Zol83

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i dunno if it holds up but eons ago i read michael lewis' book "losers" about just this phenomenon in 1996, it was a good read. https://t.co/Dj6CjGAg0U

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when you see that axios story blaming the left for everything, keep in mind it was written by mike allen, who for eons now has been about writing stories designed to get traffic from drudge and who helped found politico for just that purpose.

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im currently on book 2 of brandon sanderson's "the way of kings" and im just like "oh this is xmen. its totally xmen. hey everyone its xmen," and that makes me like it in a way i prob wouldnt otherwise.

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when i wasn't absorbed in super hero comics and space stuff, animation was (and is) my thing. i read and re-read the book "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston like it was the Bible. https://t.co/w3f0RGIDQA

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So far I’ve read American Tabloid by James Ellroy Secret Identity by Alex Segura Next I may read an action pulp novel and/or sci-fi, which I don’t actually read much.

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this page from an issue of john byrne's action comics run from the 80s gets to it. a computer deduces that clark kent is superman. lex luthor says, no, that couldnt be true, if anyone had that power they would be a god 24/7. lex cannot see superman's altruism as conceivable. https://t.co/7BudULEgwb