Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on How People First Arrived in the Americas
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard is a gripping and thoroughly researched work of narrative history that chronicles the tragic assassination of President James Garfield and the medical failures that followed.
Recommended“so for those who have not read that book or for example Candace mallard's Destiny of the Republic which is a great narrative history of Garfield's assassination”
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The Road
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, post-apocalyptic masterpiece that follows a father and his young son walking through a burned, ash-covered America trying to survive against starvation and roaming bands of cannibals while holding onto their humanity.
Discussed“it's been 16 years since he published the road which became a huge bestseller one of pullit ser and devastated me and millions of others readers”
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The Passenger
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy is an intricate, companion-style novel following a salvage diver in New Orleans who navigates grief, mathematics, and shadowy government conspiracies alongside his late sister.
Discussed“it's called the passenger so you know when they announced that he had a novel coming out I think people who had been following closely knew that he had this book called the passenger the big surprise was that it's not one but two novels that he's written and they are interconnected”
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Stella Maris
Stella Maris is a philosophical companion novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes the narrative arc initiated by its predecessor, featuring deep intellectual dialogues in a psychiatric facility.
Discussed“so this fall one month apart Koff is going to release his books the passenger and a second companion novel Stella Maris”
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The Days of Afrekete
The Days of Afrekete by Asali Solomon is a poignant and structurally innovative novel that reimagines Virginia Woolf's Mrs.
Recommended“it's called the days of afri and it's by assali Solomon who teaches writing at haford”
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A word child
A Word Child is a psychologically complex and morally intricate novel by Iris Murdoch that examines guilt, redemption, and the burdens of the past through the life of a troubled civil servant.
Recommended“I think this is my fifth novel by her now called a word child and it was published in 1975 a couple of years after the black prince”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he is the author of numerous books including the history of surgery in the United States 1775 to 1900 seeking The Cure James A Garfield and bleeding blue and gray”
“now almost I think literally maybe I had read The Accidental Tourist and then I saw that John malovich narrated it”
“I talked a couple of weeks ago on the podcast about the black prince and so I've continued my education in her reading”
“the subtitle has the word mercy in it and so it reminds me of just Mercy which I've talked about also on the podcast”
“the subtitle has the word mercy in it and so it reminds me of just Mercy which I've talked about also on the podcast”