📚 7 Books mentioned in "Barry Barish: Gravitational Waves and the Most Precise Device Ever Built | Lex Fridman Podcast #213" of Lex Fridman Podcast

and then finnegan's wake the moment i started finning his wake i said this this is stupid

Lex Fridman mentions starting this book by James Joyce and finding it difficult.

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but i think what i get from him is basic um it's like uh victor franco has a man search for meaning

Lex Fridman compares Solzhenitsyn's themes to those in this book by Viktor Frankl.

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What was the book? Moby dick

Barry Barish mentions this book as the one that discouraged him from becoming a novelist.

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i mean their uh religiousity would permeated his idea i mean one of my favorite books of his is the idiot

Lex Fridman mentions this as one of his favorite books by Dostoevsky.

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and i kept reading like i think so his short stories the dead I think it's called was very good

Lex Fridman mentions reading this short story by James Joyce.

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Well in terms of fish i recommend people read old man in the sea much shorter much better

Lex Fridman recommends this book as an alternative to Moby Dick.

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but then ulysses was I I I got through ulysses with the help of some cliff notes and so on

Lex Fridman mentions reading this book by James Joyce, noting he needed help to get through it.

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