Why people recommend it
The Terminal List by Jack Carr is a bestselling thriller novel about a former Navy SEAL seeking vengeance, which was later adapted into an Amazon television series starring Chris Pratt. Joe Rogan repeatedly recommended and discussed the novel and its author across several episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, praising it as an incredible debut and highlighting how great the books are while speaking with guests like Duncan Trussell, Mark Greaney, Taylor Kitsch, and Suzanne Santo. Rogan expressed deep admiration for Carr's writing, emphasizing that launching such a strong series right out of the box as a first novel was a remarkable achievement. On SmartLess, Chris Pratt discussed the series adaptation, noting that the story originated from a New York Times bestselling novel authored by Jack Carr, a former Navy SEAL whom Pratt connected with during his work on the film Zero Dark Thirty. Author Jack Carr also appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss his creative process, confirming that The Terminal List was always destined to be his first major breakout novel. Across these appearances, the book was consistently celebrated for its gritty authenticity, military background details, and gripping narrative pacing.
Who recommended it
- Joe Rogan Recommended
- Suzanne Santo Discussed
- Jack Carr Discussed
Joe Rogan — 7 mentions
“He wrote The Terminalist, that Amazon series. It's he's he's a great it's the one that Chris Pratt plays in that Amazon series. Oh, okay. It's really good. But the books are amazing.”
“right out of the box terminalist his first book is [ __ ] incredible. It's incredible.”
“because I read his first book and I was like this is great”
“well I like the books the books are great”
“you nailed it if the terminal list is your first book that's crazy”
“so I've only read savage Sun is that I didn't read it and listen to it people get mad you say I guess but so savage Sun is the only one I've listened to did you talk about Russia and the other books in the second one”
“people ask me like can I start with this third one and the publisher wants me to say yes start with the third one”
Suzanne Santo — 1 mention
“he's the terminal is the first one”
Jack Carr — 1 mention
“it was very evident it's gonna be the terminal list that's the one”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 1
“Oh, so it's based on a New York Times best-selling novel by an author named Jack Carr. Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL and my buddy Jared. When I did a film called Zero Dark Thirty...”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
- The Gray Man (Netflix Movie Tie-In)
- On Writing
- Patriot Games
- Savage Son
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- The War of Art
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and I put them in the show in the terminal list so on Chris Pratt's uh they're drinking with Boozer in that first episode”
“so I'd like to look at things through the enemy's eyes which I did in the devil's hand my fourth book”
“that last book in the uh the devil's hand i put myself in the enemy's shoes and i thought hey what did they learn from us on the field of battle over the last 20 years at war”
“um uh in the first book so all those little things really ended up making it very personal as did the uh the more dramatic”
“and that's what I'm in my last in in the blood that's what I wanted to write a sniper-centric novel last time without that uh scene of two snipers on opposite hillsides or buildings that are looking for each other and then they're looking and then they find each other at the last second and one guy shoots and it”
“but we did we did meet up there and but I did fly up there with Chris Pratt and Jack Carr and some of the other folks from the terminal list which is a TV show that Chris Pratt is in that Jack Carr wrote the book that the show is based on and we went up there watched the”