Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2023-01-05
Ryan Holiday & Jeff Waldman: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic
Jeff Waldman on Craftsmanship, Memento Mori, and Developing Competence
Ryan Holiday discussed The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Jeff Waldman discussed Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Nineties
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman is a cultural history that examines the distinct identity, media landscape, and pivotal moments of the final decade of the twentieth century.
Discussed“you and I talked about Chuck Klosterman and he I never and I interviewed him but he never talked about this in the book I don't think but like when someone pointed out to me that the 90s which is the subject of his new book we are as distant from the 90s as the 90s were from the 60s”
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Chuck Klosterman IV
Discussed“You and I talked about Chuck Klosterman, and I never—and I interviewed him—but he never talked about this in the book, I don't think.”
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Fight Club
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk is a searing satirical novel examining modern masculinity, consumerism, and the psychological fractures of contemporary life.
Discussed“um and so either you know this is obviously the plot of Fight Club like he has this life that deep down he knows is wrong and his subconscious has to destroy it for him to be able to leave it”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“so trust my mind my first book is to is it is 10 years old this summer is 10 years old yeah and and actually obstacle came out eight years ago yesterday”
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“This summer is 10 years old; and actually, 'Obstacle,' came out eight years ago yesterday, which is also like insane to me when I read stuff that I wrote that long ago.”
Plugged Lives of the Stoics
“like um I did this book I did lives of the stoics obviously I wanted to do well but part of the reason I wrote it was there was a bunch of stoics that I didn't know very well”
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“In 'The Obstacle', I tell this story about Edison when his Menlo Park laboratory burned down.”