also that he's an arrogant knob lol. this book descends into the author's over-confident stream of consciousness like halfway through, I couldn't stand him!
Fiction is sugarcoated truths about the world . They are good for reflecting on issues that we are not able to discuss directly with people bc taboo or censorship.
@@kellychen8384 Oh man....... there is so much more to fiction than what you just said. I invite you to read more (and better) fiction if you truly believe your own words. And if you've just read so much fiction already, may I suggest reading Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler", Perec's "Life: A User's Manual", or Cortazar's "Hopscotch". But before those, if you haven't read them already, read Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", Kafka's "The Trial", and Faulkner's "Absalom! Absalom!". I will agree that contemporary fiction has leaned heavily on "sugarcoating truths." But, quite honestly, there isn't a single book being published today that doesn't just prettify what someone else openly writes in a newspaper article, or worse, on a twitter thread. Contemporary fiction has forgotten how truly inexhaustible fiction writing can be. That's why it's so important to re-read the greats, before we keep thinking every damn novel has to be a sociopolitical commentary.
@@Guineapigsreadingbooks hey! I would not have used the word "disgusting" today haha, forgive me for that. The reason I dislike Audible is becasue of two things. First of all they're owned by Amazon, which is a company that treats their employees _very badly. Second, Audible are known for dismantling the book industries in some countries, for example Sweden. They get monopoly fast through low prices that others can't compete with. I personally don't think it's a good idea that huge companies can own "the whole world", and would like more diverse ownership of the culture industries such as literature, music, tv:)
“They don’t think, what are books I like to read? They think, what’s my brand?” THIS IS SO TRUE. Sometimes I wish celebrities or influencers etc. would just be like, tbh I haven’t read a book in years lol. Reading isn’t a universal hobby and it’s way less genuine if you lie about the books you think people expect you to be reading. Loved this video!
so true! Also, when regular influencers make videos on their favorite books they read that year, and by the recommendations you just know they were the only books they read that year loll. Not trying to gatekeep reading or anything, but it's just so painful to watch those videos
the big zuck listing a book called sapiens about the history of humankind as one of his favorites is just another sign of him being the biggest and most obvious alien ever
see I don't really love these comments because I'm not sure he's autistic but a lot of the traits he has that make people say this ARE autistic coded and it just makes me feel bad that people think I'm an alien or weird
From what I recall of her story, Holmes was a private school kid with aristocratic-type but poor parents who was clearly very ambitious. I think that she met her lover/co-founder (who was much older than her) while in high school after having talked her way into some Stanford program in China and then also talked her way into advanced classes. I 100% believe that she’d have read Homer, not so much to read Homer as to have the talking point. Admittedly, I’m somewhat sympathetic towards Holmes. I don’t think that she did anything that most tech companies don’t do, she just made the mistake of doing it in a highly-regulated space. What you can get away with when making a streaming box or whatever is harder to do in the health sphere.
@@yoshiforpm her father was Vice President for Enron, I wouldn’t call that poor parents. I also don’t think we should be feeling sorry for her, she didn’t feel sorry for cancer patients that were getting incorrect blood results from her machines.
@@racheyt9196, it’s been a while since I read the Theranos book, but I don’t think he was one of the people who got rich off Enron. My recollection was that he was some kind of diplomat or something later on. As to the substance of the case itself, I don’t know all of the evidence yet, but I don’t know that there’s any allegations of specific harm to identifiable individuals. As far as I know, what she’s charged with all involves misleading investors and damage to investors.
i just looked this up and he named one of his satellites or sth starlink which he said was inspired by the fault in our stars. maybe that was a joke but still i-
I am so mad that Bezos says he likes Remains of the Day because it's one of my favorite books and it literally has themes about how dedicating yourself to work ruins your life... Like did he get a very different message from it, or is he really just that explicitly evil???
I think all us carley stans need to club together and make a huge massive company and then we can all become billionaires and recommend books to people and slowly descend into a state of moral corruption 😃✋
I'm down - we can all pretend to have read a bunch of philosophical books to prove that we're holier than thou and totally not on said downward spiral into the capitalism game
it's not just billionaires who have an innate refusal to read fiction, it's men in general. Ask about ANY (cishet) man's favourite books and it's literally just non-fiction and like LOTR from their childhood and that's it
I'm a big reader and my cishet husband only reads, like, sci-fi/humourous non-fiction lol it's really weird. Like the Zombie Survival Guide or The Bounty Hunter's Handbook (Star Wars). Stuff like that. I'm like... why not read something with a story?!
My boyfriend a 27 yo man loving middle grade books about Greek mythology 😂 I'm a thriller, SciFi, ya smut lover and he just loves anything about fictional history. But he also loooves real history books and real science books. He has no in between, he's also a new reader! Made him start and it's been 3 years now that he's cool and pick ups books!
No but fr, some guy on tv where i live was even asked what genre he likes to read and i kid u not, he said "scientific books" like he either was lying to sound smart or had no personality cus who tf just reads non fiction science for fun bruh at least read sci-fi
Elizabeth Holmes is an actual icon in bullshitting your way to the top with absolutely nothing but shitloads of confidence, parental connections, and a good old dose of generational wealth. We can all aspire to be her if we're that lucky.
Billionaires didn't make their billions through reading books... they made them through exploitation and then hoarding their wealth. Love the videos as usual.
i remember on Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj he was chatting to the audience and one lady said she used to work at facebook and was in a bookclub with zucc, and she got the impression he was really insecure and tried to be like 'I am very smort' with the books he read bc everyone he worked with had a PhD and he was a college dropout lmaoooo
To be fair Creativity Inc is a good book! It's about the unique culture in Pixar that allowed them to create great films like Toy Story, Up, and so on.
@@lavenderbee3611 I'm just really enjoying that a book Steve Jobs created a superbowl ad in the name of is on the same list of "favorite books" that has a lot of fluff and posturing. Like, is this your favorite book? Name a commercial after it and get sued by the author's estate or I don't believe you. I just thought it was funny.
elizabeth holmes’ “reading list” is so on brand - just straight up lies and then doubling down on the lies when asked to elaborate. girlboss energy right there
The richest people I know/work with are the scruffiest people I know, so I’m trying to emulate that, rather than admitting I’m slowly sinking back into depression 😂
I love everything about 'voluntarily scruffy' as an aesthetic. (And I hope that you are in the capacity of listening to your needs and taking care of yourself, as this tends to be pretty hard these days, and that you'll be all right).
@@Maradrafts thank you, I will be okay, I have these dips every now and then when I’m under stress and I have exams coming up. If I don’t bounce back after that I’ll go speak with my dr. I work in tax so see lots of entrepreneurs and CEO’s. They weren’t particularly smart pre-pandemic but now they live in hoodies and shorts as we’re all working from home
@@kayles0mg I definitely get the pattern -- hang in there, then, and hopefully I wasn't being too intrusive! (Working in tax sounds tough in any case, regardless of exams or supplementary stress, so props to you for this alone!) That must've been weird to see at the beginning, still... Tbh, I'm the type to follow a dress code even when there isn't one in place, simply because I need boundaries between work and non-work, but I wish I had the guts to pull this up. Seems way comfier than the usual if nothing else!
you not mentioning that you're a business major in this video is probably the most gaslight gatekeep girlboss part about this video especially when u critique business nonfiction 😭💀
The disconnect between what people in general say they read and what they actually read has been something I’ve pondered for years, going back to the days when OKCupid was much more popular and I always wondered about the gap between professed cultural interests and real ones. For some reason interviews use this question a lot, and my answers are largely obscure and often out of print books from decades ago because I was a poor-ish book loving child right before the modern era of the Internet and I used to get all of my books from the cheap piles in used bookstores, which is how Herman Kahn’s “Thinking About the Unthinkable” became one of my favorite books in around 1997 despite being published in about 1962.
Me: do I think Elon Musk has actually read these books or has he just thought ‘what’s the Elon Musk brand?” Carley, ten seconds later: When billionaires are asked to present their reading list, they don’t think ‘what are books that I like to read’ they think ‘what’s my brand?’ Bitch. Our minds. The power.
If someone tells me their favorite book is Moby Dick something I know about them is that they are a liar. That book as an entire chapter describing the color white. The word "whale" is used almost 2,000 times. Not only do I not believe it's one of your favorite books, I also do not believe you have read it. Truly the most gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss choice
I love how she talks about the idea that booklists can be a "mental flex." Even non-billionaire celebs do this. You should look at GOOP's early lists. Also, first the first century or so after the invention of the novel, it was considered a lesser form of literature and more of a woman thing which might be connected to the whole non-fiction thing. Also I noticed male readers tend to slant more toward nonfiction and female ones tend to slant toward fiction. At least from my experience
about Elizabeth Holmes reading the Iliad as a kid, i have an anecdote my middle school did a thing when the top 10 kids with the most books borrowed from the school library would get a book price at the end of the year. i was in 2nd grade (about 8 years old) and, because in half a year i read 6 harry potter books, they gave me quo vadis by henryk sienkiewicz. for anyone who's not familiar, this book contains graphic descriptions of stuff as orgies, torturing christians, burning the city of Rome etc. Certainly not appropriate for an 8-year-old. when i got home and showed it to my mom, she forbid me from reading it, so of course i did anyway. that's why i don't completly rule out the possibility of Liz Holmes reading the Iliad and the Odyssey, maybe she is a brat too and her parents told her not to.
i cant with bezos having the remains of the day on his list. like ok dude, a book about a butler with absolutely zero class consciousness who is unable to find meaning outside of his life of servitude.... go off........
On Asimov: I’m not a sci-fi reader either, but Asimov’s work is so old that it doesn’t even read as sci-fi. It’s not really about how ‘cool’ the technology is, and it doesn’t want to be all futuristic and stuff. BUT his style is kinda dense and it took me a looong time to get through not super long books. I still liked it plenty tho!
I think the skew towards nonfiction and business books reflects their utilitarian view of reading - reading for self-improvement, to learn something, to be “productive” in their free time. Because they have a capitalistic idea of reading, they see reading fiction as a waste of time.
I was just insta-stalking you and apparently Courtney Love follows you, which means she's watched and has loved your videos, which means that I have something in common with Courtney Love. Today is a happy day all around.
You know it's ✨a girl boss moment✨ when you waltz into the next week, ready to take on the world by uploading a video dissing on & destroying billionaire bad bois' reading list. 💛💜
Hi Girlboss. I just wanted to say that since discovering your channel I have absorbed your entire personality and I am now passing it off as my own. Thanks. x
regarding the odyssee/iliad as a child thing: there are youth/kid friendly editions of the greek classics. source: i had a collection of greek myths as a kid and the whole thing was ~200 pages and had _everything_ in it. odyssee, iliad, oedipus rex, herakles, jason and the argonauts, the creation myth, prometheus, athena's birth, the fight for the olymp.. it was easy to read and not too long so primary school me became a lifelong fan of ancient myths
I feel like when you ask anyone what their favorite book is they usually make a list that follows their "brand". I really love how you pointed that out.
If I swapped bodies with a billionaire for a day, I would: 1: sign a document saying that I will pay my workers more and support their unions 2: make a reading list featuring my (personal) favourite books. eg. Pretty Little Liars, The Nancy Drew Files, The Clique, etc. just to confuse the billionaire’s fanboys
I guess the reason why these people mostly read non-fiction is because they *perceive* fiction to be a waste of time. Let me be clear, it obviously isn't. You can learn so much from fiction. And of you're reading a book that doesn't teach you anything, at least you're relaxing, which is also very very important!!
Yes! I feel seen. Space is the most terrifying thing, I don't even like thinking about it. It's just a big huge reminder of how tiny and insignificant our existence is and I don't need reminding of that from my books.
Fun fact about Steve Jobs: In 1984 when Apple wasn't as big as today, they made a commercial which aired aired at the superbowl finale (I think) and was based on 1984, so that people would go against groupthink and buy an Apple computer
I LOVE the book recommendations in other videos and this was already becoming my fav channel on youtube, but I did not expect a whole video trashing billionaires and their book choices and I am SO here for it! Also, calling Jeff Bezos a girlboss while playing a girlboss was just the best.
mark chose sapiens to show us that he is definitely a human that enjoys humanly things such as human history
"im definitely human i love books about us!"
I love humans! I learned everything about them in this cool manual!
also that he's an arrogant knob lol. this book descends into the author's over-confident stream of consciousness like halfway through, I couldn't stand him!
thats basically me reading a book about animals before going to zoo and then acting like a cat girl to show animals I am one ot them.
He likes to call it "Humanstory."
they dont read fiction, because reading fiction is the act of putting yourself in someone else's shoes, aka empathy which they dont have
Fiction is sugarcoated truths about the world . They are good for reflecting on issues that we are not able to discuss directly with people bc taboo or censorship.
@@kellychen8384 Oh man....... there is so much more to fiction than what you just said. I invite you to read more (and better) fiction if you truly believe your own words. And if you've just read so much fiction already, may I suggest reading Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler", Perec's "Life: A User's Manual", or Cortazar's "Hopscotch". But before those, if you haven't read them already, read Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", Kafka's "The Trial", and Faulkner's "Absalom! Absalom!".
I will agree that contemporary fiction has leaned heavily on "sugarcoating truths." But, quite honestly, there isn't a single book being published today that doesn't just prettify what someone else openly writes in a newspaper article, or worse, on a twitter thread. Contemporary fiction has forgotten how truly inexhaustible fiction writing can be. That's why it's so important to re-read the greats, before we keep thinking every damn novel has to be a sociopolitical commentary.
@@kellychen8384 you have no idea how wrong you are
@@rafraf3950 would you mind educating me more then?
Ulen Grau All the classics are sociopolitical commentaries though...
Jeff bezos be like: gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss, but most importantly: tax evasion and worker exploitation
He's an ultra girlboss 😌
He just worked rly hard to get his wealth
He just worked his Amazon slaves rly hard* sorry my hand slipped
omg is that from tracy and katya
mark zuckerberg probably read sapiens to learn how to behave like a human
this is true
This is my favourite comment ever
And dropped it halfway through
😂
LMAO I CAN’T
This is the video in which Carley ensures she never gets an audible sponsorship, love it
STOP
Carly is so #girlboss that she would get that audible sponsorship email and rejected
I absolutely love it, cant believe how many youtubers just accept a sponsorshp from that disgusting company
@@bingbong-vp5rd what is audible doing?
@@Guineapigsreadingbooks hey! I would not have used the word "disgusting" today haha, forgive me for that. The reason I dislike Audible is becasue of two things. First of all they're owned by Amazon, which is a company that treats their employees _very badly. Second, Audible are known for dismantling the book industries in some countries, for example Sweden. They get monopoly fast through low prices that others can't compete with. I personally don't think it's a good idea that huge companies can own "the whole world", and would like more diverse ownership of the culture industries such as literature, music, tv:)
“They don’t think, what are books I like to read? They think, what’s my brand?” THIS IS SO TRUE. Sometimes I wish celebrities or influencers etc. would just be like, tbh I haven’t read a book in years lol. Reading isn’t a universal hobby and it’s way less genuine if you lie about the books you think people expect you to be reading. Loved this video!
so true! Also, when regular influencers make videos on their favorite books they read that year, and by the recommendations you just know they were the only books they read that year loll. Not trying to gatekeep reading or anything, but it's just so painful to watch those videos
the big zuck listing a book called sapiens about the history of humankind as one of his favorites is just another sign of him being the biggest and most obvious alien ever
see I don't really love these comments because I'm not sure he's autistic but a lot of the traits he has that make people say this ARE autistic coded and it just makes me feel bad that people think I'm an alien or weird
800th like
And totally agree. He's like the most generic looking, near humanoid sack of meat with eyes I've ever seen
I read an article about how Nick is gay and loves Gatsby, and I’m convinced it’s true
yes i accept this thesis
Makes sense.
yes
that male gaze tho literally
@@laurenc9614 bi or gay/bi narrator but straight author(s).
Carley’s channel is really just
BGB: before girl boss
ABG: after girl boss
I love herstory ✨
YES!
Elizabeth Holmes saying she read The Iliad and the Odyssey has me wHEEZING like go girl give us lies 😭
lie to us girlboss
*Me, a Greek, having to read both for school*
I'm better than you Elizabeth
From what I recall of her story, Holmes was a private school kid with aristocratic-type but poor parents who was clearly very ambitious. I think that she met her lover/co-founder (who was much older than her) while in high school after having talked her way into some Stanford program in China and then also talked her way into advanced classes. I 100% believe that she’d have read Homer, not so much to read Homer as to have the talking point.
Admittedly, I’m somewhat sympathetic towards Holmes. I don’t think that she did anything that most tech companies don’t do, she just made the mistake of doing it in a highly-regulated space. What you can get away with when making a streaming box or whatever is harder to do in the health sphere.
@@yoshiforpm her father was Vice President for Enron, I wouldn’t call that poor parents. I also don’t think we should be feeling sorry for her, she didn’t feel sorry for cancer patients that were getting incorrect blood results from her machines.
@@racheyt9196, it’s been a while since I read the Theranos book, but I don’t think he was one of the people who got rich off Enron. My recollection was that he was some kind of diplomat or something later on.
As to the substance of the case itself, I don’t know all of the evidence yet, but I don’t know that there’s any allegations of specific harm to identifiable individuals. As far as I know, what she’s charged with all involves misleading investors and damage to investors.
Elon Musk did actually say that 'The Fault in Our Stars' was "Sad, romantic and beautifully named."
I know exactly where your pfp is from and although it's not that long ago it gave me such nostalgia
i just looked this up and he named one of his satellites or sth starlink which he said was inspired by the fault in our stars. maybe that was a joke but still i-
@@jay5391 What is the pfp from?
@@alicepan6631 a vlog dodie made a few years ago during her visit to northern Ireland (Belfast I think).
You calling out billionaires for being too on brand but drinking a drink named Gatsby is a power move and I’m here for it
Sarcastic Girlbossing being Carleys brand now is so absolutely iconique
*iConiQUE 🤩
I am so mad that Bezos says he likes Remains of the Day because it's one of my favorite books and it literally has themes about how dedicating yourself to work ruins your life... Like did he get a very different message from it, or is he really just that explicitly evil???
hes not a bad guy ffs
@@satoshinakamoto7253 he is literally evil
He def just didn't read it
I wanted Elon's favourite book to be Anna and the French kiss. What a disgrace that it didn't pop up a single time throughout the video.
I think all us carley stans need to club together and make a huge massive company and then we can all become billionaires and recommend books to people and slowly descend into a state of moral corruption 😃✋
Sign me up I'll bring the pizza
I'm down - we can all pretend to have read a bunch of philosophical books to prove that we're holier than thou and totally not on said downward spiral into the capitalism game
SIGN ME UP 🤠
@@martinasophiaisaksen3034 sounds great 😌✌️
i mean, at least the book recs will be better
it's not just billionaires who have an innate refusal to read fiction, it's men in general. Ask about ANY (cishet) man's favourite books and it's literally just non-fiction and like LOTR from their childhood and that's it
ROFL, that is so true with the men I know.
I'm a big reader and my cishet husband only reads, like, sci-fi/humourous non-fiction lol it's really weird. Like the Zombie Survival Guide or The Bounty Hunter's Handbook (Star Wars). Stuff like that. I'm like... why not read something with a story?!
My boyfriend a 27 yo man loving middle grade books about Greek mythology 😂 I'm a thriller, SciFi, ya smut lover and he just loves anything about fictional history. But he also loooves real history books and real science books. He has no in between, he's also a new reader! Made him start and it's been 3 years now that he's cool and pick ups books!
No but fr, some guy on tv where i live was even asked what genre he likes to read and i kid u not, he said "scientific books" like he either was lying to sound smart or had no personality cus who tf just reads non fiction science for fun bruh at least read sci-fi
My father definitely does as well. Though then again, he is a business man. Not a billionaire or millionaire, but definitely a workaholic
I simply don't believe rich people read. Except Bill Gates, I can see him reading Jojo Moyes or whatever
ofc they do
@@satoshinakamoto7253 they’re literally illiterate
Having one of my favourite books (Cloud Atlas) in common with a b*llionaire honestly makes me feel like a class traitor
Elizabeth Holmes is an actual icon in bullshitting your way to the top with absolutely nothing but shitloads of confidence, parental connections, and a good old dose of generational wealth. We can all aspire to be her if we're that lucky.
"I'm not like other billionaires"
Carley you should know that I'm going to be laughing about that line all day
It's the way that I look forward to Carley's "hi hello how are you" because it gives me actual serotinin🙏
thank you 🥺
It’s the “hope you are taking care of yourselves or I will shoot you” for me 🤣
I like how she threatens to kill me with her handgun.
@@authorgreenelowkey same
Heyyy can u pls read Emma Watson’s faves next???? ✨✨✨
Billionaires didn't make their billions through reading books... they made them through exploitation and then hoarding their wealth. Love the videos as usual.
i remember on Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj he was chatting to the audience and one lady said she used to work at facebook and was in a bookclub with zucc, and she got the impression he was really insecure and tried to be like 'I am very smort' with the books he read bc everyone he worked with had a PhD and he was a college dropout lmaoooo
WAIT 'it tastes doubly better when u hunted the animal yourself' I DONT REMEMBER THAT BIT WHAT THE FUCK
gatekeep, gaslight, gazillionaire
STOp
can we talk about the fact your drink says gatsby on it? we love an explicit red flag bestie 🚩
"My favorite book is Creativity Inc." *interview ends* "I'm sorry they can't know about us" John Green: "I know"
okay? okay.
Oh my gosh jfjfjffjf this has me wheezing
To be fair Creativity Inc is a good book! It's about the unique culture in Pixar that allowed them to create great films like Toy Story, Up, and so on.
ok but you are killing this blazer look 🤩 major girlboss energy
Y'all Apple literally made a commercial called 1984 that they ran in December of 1983 and it was a MOMENT in advertisement history
Not sure what you are getting at. It's a commercial selling a false concept of coolness & individuality.
@@lavenderbee3611 I'm just really enjoying that a book Steve Jobs created a superbowl ad in the name of is on the same list of "favorite books" that has a lot of fluff and posturing. Like, is this your favorite book? Name a commercial after it and get sued by the author's estate or I don't believe you. I just thought it was funny.
elizabeth holmes’ “reading list” is so on brand - just straight up lies and then doubling down on the lies when asked to elaborate.
girlboss energy right there
that blazer gives me girlboss/billionaire vibes 😈🥵🤩😍🧚♀️
if i blew up this quickly i’d just uhh. crumble under the pressure
who says im not 🥰
carley: *reviews books by business owners*
also carley: *gets angry when all the books are about business*
The richest people I know/work with are the scruffiest people I know, so I’m trying to emulate that, rather than admitting I’m slowly sinking back into depression 😂
I love everything about 'voluntarily scruffy' as an aesthetic. (And I hope that you are in the capacity of listening to your needs and taking care of yourself, as this tends to be pretty hard these days, and that you'll be all right).
@@Maradrafts thank you, I will be okay, I have these dips every now and then when I’m under stress and I have exams coming up. If I don’t bounce back after that I’ll go speak with my dr.
I work in tax so see lots of entrepreneurs and CEO’s. They weren’t particularly smart pre-pandemic but now they live in hoodies and shorts as we’re all working from home
@@kayles0mg I definitely get the pattern -- hang in there, then, and hopefully I wasn't being too intrusive! (Working in tax sounds tough in any case, regardless of exams or supplementary stress, so props to you for this alone!)
That must've been weird to see at the beginning, still... Tbh, I'm the type to follow a dress code even when there isn't one in place, simply because I need boundaries between work and non-work, but I wish I had the guts to pull this up. Seems way comfier than the usual if nothing else!
your videos are the only thing keeping me mentally stable right now
omg thanks girlboss!
Honeslty same, you are currently saving my brain from decaying at a rapid rate
basically : "im not a regular billionaire, im a cool billionaire"
carley being the only one who asks me “how are you” lately 😭💖
you not mentioning that you're a business major in this video is probably the most gaslight gatekeep girlboss part about this video especially when u critique business nonfiction 😭💀
“Bill Gates is a Disney adult” absolutely SENT me
carley suggesting murder if her subscribers aren't taking care of themselves is my type of brand
Lol it's pretty unhinged but I kinda dig it
The disconnect between what people in general say they read and what they actually read has been something I’ve pondered for years, going back to the days when OKCupid was much more popular and I always wondered about the gap between professed cultural interests and real ones.
For some reason interviews use this question a lot, and my answers are largely obscure and often out of print books from decades ago because I was a poor-ish book loving child right before the modern era of the Internet and I used to get all of my books from the cheap piles in used bookstores, which is how Herman Kahn’s “Thinking About the Unthinkable” became one of my favorite books in around 1997 despite being published in about 1962.
I don't even think before clicking on your videos anymore
Me: do I think Elon Musk has actually read these books or has he just thought ‘what’s the Elon Musk brand?”
Carley, ten seconds later: When billionaires are asked to present their reading list, they don’t think ‘what are books that I like to read’ they think ‘what’s my brand?’
Bitch. Our minds. The power.
"it shapes your frame of thinking when you encounter people and situations" i lost it
a sentence you can apply to anything
Hey please read Florence Welch's favourite books for your celebrity book club🌸✨
If someone tells me their favorite book is Moby Dick something I know about them is that they are a liar. That book as an entire chapter describing the color white. The word "whale" is used almost 2,000 times. Not only do I not believe it's one of your favorite books, I also do not believe you have read it. Truly the most gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss choice
Wouldn't it have been great if one of them where like "i LOVE Danielle Steel"
Carley's aggressive caring is what's getting me through life rn
now I believe in Carley with a blazer supremacy 🛐
very random, but I can just imagine what carley would have to say about what Rory from gilmore girls reads ahaha
why be a billionaire when you can be unstable and unhinged?🤪
my sentiments exactly
or both if you're lizzy holmes
you’re such an authentic youtuber. I love your vibe. You’re my favourite youtuber 🙄✋
You got me at the beginning when you said that billionaires are not that good people, because they didn't distribute their wealth. This is so true!
Honestly billionaires should just never talk. Like I’m begging for Jeff Bezos to shut up
I just noticed that Carly’s nose is literally perfect😭😭
stop this is so nice 🥺
the only reason i look forward to sundays
You are the first person i have seen who is even more obsessed with Elizabeth holmes than me and i LOVE it
Back and ready for the “I’m not like other x” hair tuck behind ear move that we’ve come to love 😎
I love how she talks about the idea that booklists can be a "mental flex." Even non-billionaire celebs do this. You should look at GOOP's early lists. Also, first the first century or so after the invention of the novel, it was considered a lesser form of literature and more of a woman thing which might be connected to the whole non-fiction thing. Also I noticed male readers tend to slant more toward nonfiction and female ones tend to slant toward fiction. At least from my experience
about Elizabeth Holmes reading the Iliad as a kid, i have an anecdote
my middle school did a thing when the top 10 kids with the most books borrowed from the school library would get a book price at the end of the year. i was in 2nd grade (about 8 years old) and, because in half a year i read 6 harry potter books, they gave me quo vadis by henryk sienkiewicz. for anyone who's not familiar, this book contains graphic descriptions of stuff as orgies, torturing christians, burning the city of Rome etc. Certainly not appropriate for an 8-year-old. when i got home and showed it to my mom, she forbid me from reading it, so of course i did anyway. that's why i don't completly rule out the possibility of Liz Holmes reading the Iliad and the Odyssey, maybe she is a brat too and her parents told her not to.
i cant with bezos having the remains of the day on his list. like ok dude, a book about a butler with absolutely zero class consciousness who is unable to find meaning outside of his life of servitude.... go off........
i LOVE how your nails match your rings, it just gives me mental peace
when you say a certain book is a red flag even though it's one of your favs... that's what Marx was talking about when he described Class Awareness
The way Carley takes her hair behind her ear everytime she says "I am not like other girls" making that face. EPIC! I LOVE THAT! 🤣
Omfg the w*nking gesture, I died
the "its not about having generational wealth" with the double debby ryan move REALLY came for bezos' neck
On Asimov: I’m not a sci-fi reader either, but Asimov’s work is so old that it doesn’t even read as sci-fi. It’s not really about how ‘cool’ the technology is, and it doesn’t want to be all futuristic and stuff. BUT his style is kinda dense and it took me a looong time to get through not super long books. I still liked it plenty tho!
If I become a millonaire i'm recommending chick-lit, no shame 😂
If you don't recommend Anna and the French Kiss and a Girlboss book, I'm going to sue you ❤️
I think I’d go for exclusively YA fantasy trilogies
I’ve laughed during the whole 13 minutes and 32 seconds of this video and as a brazilian I must thank you, the last time I had laughed was in 2019
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I think the skew towards nonfiction and business books reflects their utilitarian view of reading - reading for self-improvement, to learn something, to be “productive” in their free time. Because they have a capitalistic idea of reading, they see reading fiction as a waste of time.
I see Bill Gates's reviews on goodreads a lot. He does seem to read a whole lot
P. S. The blazer gives major girl boss energy 💜👌🏽
i have read iliad and odyssey as a child and never EVER say this to anyone as an adult because i know they will never believe me...
I was just insta-stalking you and apparently Courtney Love follows you, which means she's watched and has loved your videos, which means that I have something in common with Courtney Love. Today is a happy day all around.
''He basically made big brother what it is today.'' And ''Creator of all things evil in social media'''
You are my favorite youtuber now.
I remember discovering Bill Gates' book blog and he has actually recommended Bad Blood, a book ON ELIZABETH HOLMES lmao
Bill Gates has a book blog?
Jeff def has a secret shelf stacked with Danielle steel
not me and bill both loving cloud atlas 👀
2021 is the year you become a billionaire cari
her threatening to come for my life if i dont take care of myself in the intro is the only thing that warms my heart.
You know it's ✨a girl boss moment✨ when you waltz into the next week, ready to take on the world by uploading a video dissing on & destroying billionaire bad bois' reading list. 💛💜
Your uploads are giving me so much happiness
Hi Girlboss. I just wanted to say that since discovering your channel I have absorbed your entire personality and I am now passing it off as my own. Thanks. x
the way have you kept your nail art intact for the past like 6 videos is amazing to me
YAAAASSSSS!!! just subscribed today and suddenly you uploaded?? - so true queen 😌
welcome!!
regarding the odyssee/iliad as a child thing: there are youth/kid friendly editions of the greek classics. source: i had a collection of greek myths as a kid and the whole thing was ~200 pages and had _everything_ in it. odyssee, iliad, oedipus rex, herakles, jason and the argonauts, the creation myth, prometheus, athena's birth, the fight for the olymp.. it was easy to read and not too long so primary school me became a lifelong fan of ancient myths
"I´m not like other billionaires" sends meeeee
I feel like when you ask anyone what their favorite book is they usually make a list that follows their "brand". I really love how you pointed that out.
Jeff bezos indeed is girlgas bosslighting his employees✨✨
If I swapped bodies with a billionaire for a day, I would:
1: sign a document saying that I will pay my workers more and support their unions
2: make a reading list featuring my (personal) favourite books. eg. Pretty Little Liars, The Nancy Drew Files, The Clique, etc. just to confuse the billionaire’s fanboys
I guess the reason why these people mostly read non-fiction is because they *perceive* fiction to be a waste of time. Let me be clear, it obviously isn't. You can learn so much from fiction. And of you're reading a book that doesn't teach you anything, at least you're relaxing, which is also very very important!!
Yes! I feel seen. Space is the most terrifying thing, I don't even like thinking about it. It's just a big huge reminder of how tiny and insignificant our existence is and I don't need reminding of that from my books.
Fun fact about Steve Jobs: In 1984 when Apple wasn't as big as today, they made a commercial which aired aired at the superbowl finale (I think) and was based on 1984, so that people would go against groupthink and buy an Apple computer
Even her freakin smoothie is called Gatsby, always on brand! Love to see you thrive girl
Pretty please Lorde and/or Emma Watsons fave books 👀👀👀
something about the way you talk is just so soothing to me, you could be talking abt the most boring thing in the world and i'd still wanna watch
thanks for checking up on us and forcing us to take care of ourselves!!!
I LOVE the book recommendations in other videos and this was already becoming my fav channel on youtube, but I did not expect a whole video trashing billionaires and their book choices and I am SO here for it! Also, calling Jeff Bezos a girlboss while playing a girlboss was just the best.
Casually grilling billionaires~~ girlboss move we stan🙌🙌
THE BILL GATES SEGMENT AGED SO POORLY
luv you Carley
Black Swan is more of a “shit happens” book.