Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Dinosaurs, the Master of Horror and Philip Roth
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte is an engaging popular science book that chronicles the history of a lost world and the creatures that once inhabited it.
Recommended“uh the book again is the rise and fall of the dinosaurs a new history of a Lost World by Steve”
Where to get it
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The Outsider
The Outsider by Stephen King is a genre-blending thriller that begins as a straightforward police procedural investigating a gruesome local murder before twisting into a terrifying supernatural horror story.
Discussed“he reviews this week the outside by Stephen King”
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11/22/63
Stephen King's imaginative time-travel thriller 11/22/63 follows an English teacher who discovers a portal back to the late 1950s and embarks on a high-stakes mission to prevent the assassination of John F.
Discussed“yeah JFK one The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon in in the JFK one 112263”
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It
It by Stephen King is a sprawling horror epic that follows a group of children confronting a shapeshifting entity in their fictional hometown of Derry, Maine, while exploring themes of childhood trauma and nostalgic memory.
Discussed“I think I was 12 and I think it was it which is one of his longest books”
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Different Seasons
Different Seasons by Stephen King is a celebrated 1982 collection of four distinct novellas that showcases the author's range far beyond traditional horror.
Recommended“well I would say for if it's a teenager there's a book of novelas called different seasons an early one”
Where to get it
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Carrie
Carrie by Stephen King is a classic horror novel about a bullied teenage girl who discovers she possesses telekinetic powers.
Discussed“Carrie is the I think it Remains the shortest book that he's written it was his first published novel it's 150 Pages or something”
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'Salem's Lot
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King is a chilling vampire horror novel that follows a writer returning to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot, only to discover that the community is being systematically overtaken by vampires.
Discussed“Salem's Lot in The Shining which were his next two again are recognizable one's a vampire story”
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The Shining
The Shining by Stephen King is a classic horror novel about a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic who takes a winter caretaker job at an isolated, haunted mountain hotel with his family.
Discussed“uh I don't know how anyone can take Stephen King's side other than the people in his family he is absolutely wrong”
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Night Shift
Night Shift is a celebrated collection of horror short stories by Stephen King that explores profound fears, supernatural phenomena, and the dark corners of the human psyche.
Discussed“I think my first I was probably 10 or 11 and it was his a book of stories night shift and um that sort of segwayed to”
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The Stand
The Stand by Stephen King is an epic post-apocalyptic horror novel that chronicles the devastation of human civilization by a weaponized influenza strain and the subsequent battle between survivors aligned with forces of good and evil.
Discussed“when you did this Roundup for vulture the stand the sort of the the best of the best”
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On Writing
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King is part memoir and part practical guide detailing Stephen King's journey as an author alongside valuable advice for aspiring writers.
Recommended“it's interesting because you on your list Gilbert you the number two book you recommend which is also a favorite book of mine is his book on writing”
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Rose Madder
Rose Madder is a psychological thriller by Stephen King that explores themes of domestic abuse and mythological vengeance through a woman fleeing her violent husband.
Discussed“and as of as of uh 2014 number 64 for you was Rose matter”
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Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King is a psychological thriller and dark character study centered on a Maine housekeeper accused of murdering the wealthy elderly woman she cares for, while flashing back to abuse and survival.
Discussed“so there was Rose matter there was Dolores Clayborn and there was a Gerald's Game”
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Gerald's Game
Gerald's Game is a psychological horror novel by Stephen King about a woman who finds herself handcuffed to a bed in a remote cabin after her husband dies suddenly during an attempted game of bondage.
Discussed“so there was Rose matter there was Dolores Clayborn and there was a Gerald's Game”
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Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep is a gripping horror novel by Stephen King that serves as a direct sequel to his iconic 1977 masterpiece, The Shining, following an adult Dan Torrance as he protects a young girl with similar psychic abilities from a malevolent cult.
Discussed“and he is so invested in reclaiming the story that he wrote a sequel to The Shining called do sleep which was a novel that came out”
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There There
There There by Tommy Orange is a powerful polyphonic novel that follows a diverse group of Native American characters living in modern-day Oakland, California.
Recommended“His book is coming out next week Koff is publishing it and it's called there there and he's got a really interesting background”
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Goodbye, Columbus
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth is a celebrated early collection of fiction exploring the lives and internal cultural fractures of American Jews.
Discussed“I mean goodbye Columbus where he starts is all about the internal fractures within American Community different kinds of Jews”
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Letting go
Letting Go is the first full-length novel by Philip Roth, exploring the complicated romantic, academic, and professional entanglements of young intellectuals in the American Midwest and New York during the nineteen-fifties.
Discussed“the two novels between goodbye Columbus and por no's complaint when she was good and and letting go are sort of his buttoned up respectable literary”
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Portnoy's Complaint
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth is a provocative, comedic psychological novel structured as a long monologue by a tormented Jewish bachelor confessing his sexual anxieties and familial pressures to his psychoanalyst.
Discussed“the two novels between goodbye Columbus and por no's complaint when she was good and and letting go are sort of his buttoned up respectable literary”
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When she was good
When She Was Good is a compelling novel by Philip Roth that explores complex themes of morality, familial duty, and personal disillusionment in mid-century America.
Discussed“the two novels between goodbye Columbus and por no's complaint when she was good and and letting go are sort of his buttoned up respectable literary”
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American Pastoral
American Pastoral is a critically acclaimed 1997 novel by Philip Roth that examines the disintegration of a successful American family during the turbulent social upheavals of the late twentieth century.
Discussed“but for you Taffy it's American pastoral also it's American pastoral”
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Sabbath's Theater
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth is a provocative and darkly humorous novel centered on a aging, disgraced puppeteer grappling with grief, mortality, and his own destructive impulses.
Discussed“I mean it's just one of the rawest things um um Sabbath theater”
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The Counterlife
Discussed“and the counterlife just is the book that for me is just proves that he could do anything”
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The Human Stain
Discussed“there's the zukerman trilogy which introduces this character of Nathan zukerman who would be also the perceiving consciousness of uh American pastoral and Human Stain”
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Indignation
Discussed“I picked up indignation which is one of the few I hadn't read before and it's a later novel yeah it's a later novel”
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Exit Ghost
Discussed“yeah he did a little the there was this there was this moment in exit ghost where he's exiled himself to Connecticut”
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The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth is a celebrated novel that follows a young aspiring writer visiting an older, established author, serving as the first book in the author's famous Zuckerman sequence.
Discussed“I mean the the whole the whole Anne Frank subplot my God in in the Ghost Rider is is just”
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The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth is a prominent alternate history novel imagining a fascist America in the 1940s under the isolationist presidency of Charles Lindbergh.
Discussed“of course the obvious parallels with the plot against America”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Steve brusati author of the rise and fall of the dinosaurs a new history of a lost world”
“and this is one of the things that I try to get across in the book”
“and this is one of the things that I try to get across in the book”
“but on the on the cover of my book we have a T-Rex and it has feathers on it”
“but on the on the cover of my book we have a T-Rex and it has feathers on it”
“in the book I tell the story of dinosaurs how they rose up from very humble beginnings”
“in the book I tell the story of dinosaurs how they rose up from very humble beginnings”
“joining us now novelist Victor Laval whose most recent book The Changeling is now going to be a TV series on FX”