📚 4 Books mentioned in "In a Job Interview, How Much Does Timing Matter? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 70" of No Stupid Questions

I can think of one book that I loved and saw the film, and I didn't hate it, and that was Angela's Ashes, which I thought was a pretty good film. I did not know that was a film.

Stephen reflects on his appreciation for the book 'Angela's Ashes' and shares his thoughts on its film adaptation. He found the movie to be enjoyable, even as a fan of the book. The discussion touches on the broader theme of how adaptations can sometimes differ from the source material, but in this case, he felt it was well done. The author, Frank McCourt, is acknowledged by a fact checker later in the episode.

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But then I think of another book that I loved, Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. I love that book too, a great novel. Then the movie came out, and I can't remember that movie!

Stephen fondly recalls the book 'Bonfire of the Vanities' by Tom Wolfe, expressing his affection for the novel. He contrasts his memories of the book with its movie adaptation, discussing how a disappointing film can overshadow one's imagination of the original story.

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The journalist Julie Solomon was actually on set for a lot of the making of that movie; she wrote a book about it. She wrote a book about the making of the movie because it was just one disaster after the next, and the book was called Devil's Candy.

Stephen mentions 'Devil's Candy', a book authored by journalist Julie Salamon that chronicles the tumultuous production of the 'Bonfire of the Vanities' movie. The discussion centers around the significant impact that poor visuals can have on the audience's perception of a book adaptation.

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Stephen was perhaps thinking of 'chart junk', a term that Tufte coined in his 1983 book, 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information'. Tufte writes, 'The interior decoration of graphics generates a lot of ink that does not tell the viewer anything new.'

In this segment, the book 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' is mentioned as the source of the term 'chart junk', which refers to unnecessary graphic elements that do not add informative value. This reference comes from the fact-checking discussion, where the fact checker clarifies the earlier points made by Stephen.

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