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In the world of tiktok, I follow Chris valenti. He does allot of military history with dramatic flair.

Like any algorithm, the more you watch or engage with the garbage, the more it will feed to you. If you search for educational things, you'll see more of them. Same with videogames, music, and a wonderful place called book-tok. Which people talk about the books they love. It's a big reason that Barnes & Nobel is packed with millennials right now.

Myself, I've gotten into reading the classics that I've missed through life. 1984, great Gatsby, catcher in the rye, starship troopers. They're usually short but a good exercise in realizing that everyone quotes then, but nobody's read them or understood them...

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good on you man. I’ve really enjoyed going back to certain books and finding myself reading them altogether differently.

Going to look into this Valenti person and I assume I should just search “BookTok”? The search function terrifies me because it’s like pulling back the curtain.

thanks.

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I would just search booktok and you're bound to find someone you like. Most of them are very passionate and it shows that people who enjoy reading are desperate to find anyone to talk to about it. But it's a pretty large community, so it may take time to find someone else you gel with.

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Jun 20Liked by Adam Sessler

Man Cujo. Like you I read King in my childhood my mother thinking “at least he’s reading”. I agree Cujo wasn’t the scariest but in hindsight it was the most affecting between the family themes being very real but also any time a big dog barked at me a part of me thought “does he have rabies”. I’m so lucky I didn’t grow up fearing dogs.

As far as the questions I do not understand tik tok at all.

I’ve been told Dragons Dogma is good but also horny.

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Well, Dragon’s Dogma can’t be any hornier than some of the things I’ve seen on Tik Tok. I can’t believe these kids are allowed out of the house. Actually they’re typically in their house. Regardless, it’s horrible.

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The ones that don’t stay at their house are the ones that scare me

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Jun 20Liked by Adam Sessler

This TikTok you speak of… where can one find it? You’re forcing me to download spy software! The things I do for The Sess.

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