Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-01-23
Books mentioned on Alexei Navalny: Putin's Enemy Explained - John Sweeney - #273
John Sweeney is an investigative journalist and a writer. There is a fascinating and incredibly dangerous poker game going on in Russia at the moment.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Hero of Our Time
Discussed“this reads sounds like a spy novel it's actually um i'm thinking of um a poem um by le montov a hero of our time”
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A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt's acclaimed play examines the dramatic downfall of Sir Thomas More, who famously refused to compromise his conscience or endorse King Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
Discussed“and he kind of reminds me of sir thomas more in the bitten man for all seasons i love robert bolt who wrote that”
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The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 political thriller novel by Richard Condon that explores themes of Cold War paranoia, brainwashing, and political assassination.
Discussed“He wrote a book which became the origin of um the manchurian candidate the novel was based on this guy's research”
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A Life on Our Planet
Discussed“the other day i started listening to david attenborough's um a life on this planet and it was so good and yet so depressing”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella warning against the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism through the story of farm animals staging a rebellion.
Recommended“go to by the way go via belarus um take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 portrays a totalitarian regime defined by perpetual surveillance, historical negation, and thought control.
Recommended“go to by the way go via belarus um take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“i've written a novel called um the useful idiot which is about stalin's time about fake news in 1933”
“take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
“take a copy of a 1984 animal farm leave it in a bar”
“and that's a really interesting arc as well which we're going to get into on the next one but i implore everyone to go and have a listen to that also useful idiot and the usual i've done an audio book as well”