Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2024-05-31
Books mentioned on Actual Trolls: Not the Ones Online
Trolls! These mythical creatures are -- nowadays -- beloved.
Ben Bowlin discussed Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Growing Up in the Ice Age by April Nowell, and The Inheritors by William Golding. Also mentioned: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist is a chilling vampire horror novel that explores dark themes through the unusual friendship between a bullied young boy and a child vampire in suburban Sweden.
Discussed“In, I don't remember the GU name but love both versions of that film he uh he wrote a story that got adapted into another film”
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American Gods
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is a fantasy novel published in 2001 that explores the conflict between traditional mythological deities and modern American manifestations of technology and consumerism.
Discussed“this is a big part of the U narrative American Gods by Neil Gaiman right I'm leaning on fiction a lot here”
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Growing Up in the Ice Age
Discussed“in her 2021 book growing up in the ice age as well as her more recent work from just last year rethinking neander tals an archaeologist named April Noel from Canada University of Victoria”
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Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is a sweeping narrative that traces the evolutionary and historical development of the human species from prehistoric bands to modern civilizations.
Recommended“I'm sure we've mentioned this book on the on the podcast before uh sapiens a brief history of human kind by yal Noah Harari is a fantastic readed”
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The Inheritors
Discussed“the idea of trolls as an embellishment on human interaction with neandertal has been explored extensively in fiction William Golding uh the guy who wrote Lord of the Flies wrote about it in a novel called the inheritors”
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