Books Mentioned in This Episode

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Episode: Hitchhiking: Two thumbs out! | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

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"By the way, can we shout out that great book that a lot of this is called from, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? No, what great book?"
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Carsick

by John Waters

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"For me, John Waters is a pretty fun one because he hitchhiked and enjoyed it as a kid and then eventually wrote a book. He hitchhiked as a 68-year-old grown man in 2013 from his home in Baltimore to his other home in San Francisco and wrote a book about it called 'John Waters Hitchhikes Across America.'"
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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

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"Whether it's obviously Jack Kerouac's On the Road is a big one, or Tom Robbins even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The Gus Van Sant movie, the main character was born with an abnormally large thumb, so she obviously had a talent as a hitchhiker, and that's kind of one of the subplots of the book and film, right?"
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

by Tom Robbins

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"Whether it's obviously Jack Kerouac's On the Road is a big one, or Tom Robbins even Cowgirls Get the Blues. The Gus Van Sant movie, the main character was born with an abnormally large thumb, so she obviously had a talent as a hitchhiker, and that's kind of one of the subplots of the book and film, right?"