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The Boy Who Would Be King
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Why people recommend it
The Boy Who Would Be King by Ryan Holiday examines leadership, character, and philosophical principles through engaging historical narratives. On a 2024 episode of The Daily Stoic featuring a conversation with Rich Roll, guest Billy Oppenheimer discussed the stylistic choices in Holiday's related philosophical works, highlighting how personal afterwords can effectively invite readers into the deeper moral arguments of a text. Meanwhile, in a 2022 episode, illustrator Victor Juhasz appeared on the same podcast to discuss his creative collaboration with Holiday on a companion volume, noting the unique challenges independent and self-published books face in gaining traction with mainstream media reviewers. Together, these podcast discussions emphasize how Holiday's books combine classical philosophy with accessible storytelling, encouraging modern audiences to reflect on virtue, personal responsibility, and historical examples of statesmanship and character development in their daily lives.
Every mention
Billy Oppenheimer Um, what how we should wrap up is, okay, how do you determine— Um, like I was listening to your episode wit… 1
“Um, what how we should wrap up is, okay, how do you determine— Um, like I was listening to your episode with Rich Roll recently, and he was like, 'My favorite thing in this book in the Justice book was the afterward where you do insert yourself into it.'”
Victor Juhasz did you find that uh this decr i mean i don't see any name publications reviewing who have reviewed the boy 1
“did you find that uh this decr i mean i don't see any name publications reviewing who have reviewed the boy”
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Maybe I could have been selling 'Justice' for more, but all of that was irrelevant because I was just in the middle of writing the book.”
“So maybe I could have been selling Justice for more, but um all of that was irrelevant because I was just in the middle of writing the book.”
“so it's not that so basically like uh the girl who would be free went into the publisher in february which is the same time that the boy who would be king went in a year earlier and instead of coming out in early march it came out in june”
“like so these two books the boy would be king and the girl who'd be free i self-published which meant i had all the control that i sometimes am frustrated that i don't have on my bigger books”
“so when i went to my publisher with the boy who would be king they were like we love the idea we see how it fits with all your other books but they're like we would like it to be about 10 000 words”