📚 3 Books mentioned in "Joe Rogan Experience #1114 - Matt Taibbi" of The Joe Rogan Experience

it may be just as interesting but it just requires less work so the hardest thing to read is you know Anna Karenina or something like that right

Matt Taibbi uses Anna Karenina as an example of a difficult book to read because it requires significant mental effort from the reader.

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I'm writing this book I spelled it too It's called the business secrets of drug dealing You can find it at business secrets of drug dealing calm And I'm serializing it but basically somebody I knew for ages in a completely different capacity I sort of came out to me last year and said um you know I've been a high-level drug dealer for for a long time basically my whole life and wanted to tell his story about you know sort of the the whole progression of his life

Matt Taibbi introduces his new book, co-written with an anonymous high-level drug dealer, and explains its premise and how it's being released.

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well he so hundreds of this great thing he he he wrote about it it was it was kind of a spoof of campaign coverage because he he did this whole campaign diary and then he just kind of went into this deadpan recitation of what sounded like a breaking news story about him discovering Muskies secret relationship with a witch doctor who was providing him with evil again

Matt Taibbi discusses Hunter S. Thompson's campaign diary/book about the 1972 election, describing its satirical nature and the anecdote about Ed Muskie and "ibogaine".

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