Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on From Brooklyn to the Gulag
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Arthur & Sherlock
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme surveillance and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“and so to a lot of other people it seems like there's been a massive surge in sales for Orwell's classic novel 1984”
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It Can't Happen Here
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis is a 1935 political satire novel that explores the rise of fascism and authoritarianism within the United States during a fictional political campaign.
Discussed“another book that has picked up in sales is it can't happen here by Sinclair Lewis”
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Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a dystopian classic that envisions a futuristic society controlled by technological distraction, pharmacological hedonism, and engineered social conditioning.
Discussed“Brave New World by Aldis Huxley has risen to number nine”
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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“do you happen to know um if there's been any spike in sales for Philip Roth's alternate history the plot against America”
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian patriarchal society where women's rights have been stripped away.
Discussed“it's number 23 is the handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood”
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The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle is a prominent dystopian alternative history novel by Philip K.
Discussed“and another book with a recent TV adaptation that I think is also seeing a spike in sales is the man in the High Castle the Philip K dick dystopian Nazi based”
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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle is the foundational 1887 detective novel that introduced the legendary consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion Dr.
Discussed“and a study in Scarlet the first book Is Not the very best of the the Holmes Adventures”
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Silver Blaze
Discussed“I think my favorite has to be um Silver Blaze the one about the the missing racehorse”
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Right and left ; The legend of the holy drinker
Discussed“but at right now the last couple days I've been reading Joseph Roth's novel right and left”
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At the Existentialist Café
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell is a group biography detailing the lives and ideas of the prominent existentialist philosophers of the twentieth century.
Discussed“yeah um so I I read last year I read um Sarah Bell's uh at the existentialist Cafe”
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Irrational man
Discussed“is William Barrett's uh irrational man which was a a survey kind of of existentialism that came out in 1958”
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The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A.
Discussed“well I mentioned last week uh that I was on the verge of starting Robert caros the power broker which is his massive biography of Robert Moses”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“even cormic McCarthy's the road”
“Charles Dickens had uh created a detective who became an important character in his novel Bleak House”
“um W wilky Collins had created a detective who was an important character in uh the Moonstone”
“this book is called Never Never”
“Jonathan chat's audacity which is a look back at the legacy of Barack Obama makes its list”
“and Michael Eric Dyson's tears we cannot stop which is subtitled a sermon to White America”
“I had read Rebellion a number of years ago”
“so maybe not quite as far as AJ Jacobs in the year of living biblically”