Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Amor Towles Sees Dead People
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
Discussed“so your recent piece in the book reviews Thriller issue is adapted from your introduction to the mysterious Bookshop presents the best mystery stories of the Year 2023 which is going to be published in September”
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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is a historical novel that follows an aristocratic count who is ordered to spend the remainder of his life inside a luxury Moscow hotel.
Discussed“CU in in 2011 You released Rules of Civility and you've had a pretty extraordinary run since then it was followed by gentleman of Moscow in the Lincoln Highway”
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Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles is a captivating debut novel set in 1938 New York City that follows a young woman whose life changes after an encounter in a jazz club.
Discussed“when I finished of Civility there was a character who was a great troublemaker and and very sort of charismatic named Eve who was Katie's roommate who in the middle or late in the novel just goes to Hollywood in 1938 without telling anybody”
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The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a historical fiction novel that follows a young man driving cross-country from Nebraska to New York in 1954 with his younger brother and two troubled acquaintances.
Discussed“CU in in 2011 You released Rules of Civility and you've had a pretty extraordinary run since then it was followed by gentleman of Moscow in the Lincoln Highway”
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Slow Horses
Slow Horses by Mick Herron is a sharp espionage thriller that follows the MI5 rejects stationed at Slough House.
Recommended“and you have alighted this summer also on someone that I am reading I started reading him after watching the Apple TV series and I can't wait to get through as many of his books as possible who is that what is this book I'm looking at and it was the same thing for me as Mick Haron and what”
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Table for Two
Amor Towles's short story collection Table for Two brings together witty and intricately crafted narratives set in New York and Hollywood.
Discussed“but so you have the six New York stories and you have even Hollywood that's a part of this collection called table for two and that which will come out in April and I'm at work at my next novel”
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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a classic hardboiled detective novel that revolutionized the crime fiction genre with its gritty realism, morally ambiguous characters, and iconic protagonist, Sam Spade.
Discussed“listen to another book podcast that's called backlisted for listeners and and for you amore it's a great podcast out of England that's run for many years in which they talk about old books they bring on two or three people and they did an episode on the maltes Falcon”
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a classic children's fantasy novel by Lewis Carroll that follows a young girl named Alice down a rabbit hole into a bizarre underground world populated by peculiar creatures and illogical rules.
Discussed“and that brings us to the book that you've mentioned that you would like to talk about and I'm so thrilled to talk about it because it's a book I read a lot as a child as well it's one of the great examples of absurdus literature it's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“first I'll be speaking to Amore tols author of the best-selling books Rules of Civility a gentleman in Moscow and the Lincoln Highway”
“first I'll be speaking to Amore tols author of the best-selling books Rules of Civility a gentleman in Moscow and the Lincoln Highway”
“first I'll be speaking to Amore tols author of the best-selling books Rules of Civility a gentleman in Moscow and the Lincoln Highway”
“and then as part of a recurring segment here on the podcast discusses the book he has read most in his life Louis Carol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”