Episode · The Jordan Harbinger Show · 2023-04-12
Books mentioned on How Smart People Get Sucked Into Conspiracies (Stuff They Don't Want You to Know) | JHS Ep. 814
Mentioned: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a historical novel set in Nazi Germany, narrated by Death and centered on a young foster girl who steals books and shares them with others.
Discussed“And that's kind of a line that we try to explore here, and we went back and forth in the book and in any project that we do where we say, 'All right, what is our intellectual responsibility to our audience?'”
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz is a classic, widely read children's horror anthology that compiles terrifying American folklore and urban legends, accompanied by famously unsettling illustrations by Stephen Gammell.
Discussed“And it has all the the uh the juicy bits of scary stories to tell in the dark, you know, and it has all of the uh confirmation, you know, the the scratch behind the ears of feeling one belongs or has an identity within a community or tribal system.”
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a classic satirical novel about a nineteenth-century American mechanic who travels back in time to Arthurian England and uses practical knowledge to pose as a powerful wizard.
Discussed“It reminds me of um, since we quoted Mark Twain earlier, with a lie getting halfway around the world, let's go with a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. When the Yankee goes back in time and and sees Arthur and Guinevere uh, Merlin and the whole thing, he realizes he's like, 'Oh, Merlin is a freaking con artist.' But”
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