Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on A Novel About Brilliant Young Game Designers
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin is a contemporary novel following the decades-long creative and personal partnership of two friends who achieve massive success as video game designers.
Discussed“her new book is tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and she's here to talk about it hi Gabrielle hi”
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Night of the Living Rez
Discussed“my guest Morgan talty's debut collection of 12 short stories is called Night of the living res and he joins me to talk about it hi Morgan thanks for being here”
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The Passage
The Passage by Justin Cronin is an epic post-apocalyptic vampire thriller that anchors a sprawling, visionary trilogy.
Discussed“so I'm thinking of something like the last of us which feels quite a bit like the road or the passage by Justin Cronin games call on literature all the time”
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The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, post-apocalyptic masterpiece that follows a father and his young son walking through a burned, ash-covered America trying to survive against starvation and roaming bands of cannibals while holding onto their humanity.
Discussed“so I'm thinking of something like the last of us which feels quite a bit like the road or the passage by Justin Cronin games call on literature all the time”
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Jesus' son
Jesus' Son is a potent and slender 1992 short story collection by Denis Johnson that portrays the chaotic, gritty lives of marginal figures through the perspective of an unreliable narrator.
Recommended“Tommy orange said of the collection that it took me in the same way Dennis Johnson's Jesus's son did when I first read it and it's hard to think of higher praise than that for a short story writer”
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The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is a lyrical and moving reimagining of the Iliad that focuses on the deep romance between Achilles and Patroclus.
Discussed“the song of Achilles which uh came out in 2012 and is a love story between Achilles and Petras has now sold two million copies because of book talk which is amazing because as its editor said to me this is a book about The Iliad and it just so million copies”
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I Used to Live Here Once - the Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Discussed“and anyway this book is called I used to live here once the haunted life of Jee ree by Miranda Seymour”
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is a celebrated post-colonial novel that serves as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, set in the Caribbean.
Discussed“she was 76 and published wide saraso C the book that most people know of her in 1966 when she was as I said she was 76 and she had come out of the blue and people didn't even know she was alive anymore”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Gabriel zevan is the author of several novels including the story life of AJ ficker her new book is tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and she's here to talk about it”
“The Collection again is KN of the living Rez by Morgan talty Morgan thanks so much for being here”
“the song of Achilles which uh came out in 2012 and is a love story between Achilles and Petras has now sold two million copies because of book talk which is amazing because as its editor said to me this is a book about The Iliad and it just so million copies”
“but that's a prequel of sorts to Jane air and so very not autobiographical although it draws on her childhood”
“something like you know the power broker I don't know”
“mine was I used to live here once the haunted life of Jee ree by Miranda Seymour”