Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2018-05-09

Joe Rogan & Matt Taibbi: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1114

#1114 - Matt Taibbi

3 books · With Matt Taibbi · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books including: Insane Clown President, Griftopia, and The Business Secrets Of Drug Dealing.

Matt Taibbi recommended Papillon by Henri Charrière and others, and discussed Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Papillon

    Henri Charrière; Sharee Henry · at 11:50

    Papillon by Henri Charrière is a gripping autobiographical novel detailing the author's harrowing imprisonment and multiple daring escapes from the penal colonies of French Guiana.

    Recommended
    “I love books that are written after the fact by people who were in crime you know like Papillon was one of my favorite books growing up”
    Where to get it
  2. Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy · at 53:49

    Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is a monumental nineteenth-century masterpiece that explores tragic themes of love, infidelity, social class, and human psychology in imperial Russia.

    Discussed
    “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”
    Where to get it
  3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Hunter S. Thompson · at 1:33:53

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson is a wildly eccentric journalistic novel that chronicles a drug-addled road trip across the American Southwest in search of the elusive American Dream.

    Discussed
    “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”
    Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
“Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books including: Insane Clown President, Griftopia, and The Business Secrets Of Drug Dealing.”
Speaker #1114 - Matt Taibbi 2018-05-09 Listen at 0:00
Passing Insane Clown President
“Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books including: Insane Clown President, Griftopia, and The Business Secrets Of Drug Dealing.”
Speaker #1114 - Matt Taibbi 2018-05-09 Listen at 0:00
Passing Griftopia
“Matt Taibbi is a journalist and author. He has reported on politics, media, finance, and sports, and has authored several books including: Insane Clown President, Griftopia, and The Business Secrets Of Drug Dealing.”
Speaker #1114 - Matt Taibbi 2018-05-09 Listen at 0:00
Plugged The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
“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”
Plugged Atheism is Winning!
“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”