Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2024-06-27
Books mentioned on Joe Rogan Experience #1859 - Louis CK & Joe List
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller's autobiographical novel Tropic of Cancer offers a raw, unfiltered look at the bohemian lifestyle of an American writer struggling in Paris during the Great Depression.
Discussed“uh uh uh um tropic of cancer [ __ ] blanken on his name great author you'd know his name right away and he wrote sexist and plexus [ __ ] jamie henry miller henry henry miller wrote these really crazy sexual drunk filled [ __ ] up books”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is a media ecology classic arguing that television and modern electronic amusements have trivialized public discourse, transforming serious political and social topics into mere entertainment.
Discussed“this is a book that i was reading that neil brennan recommended i think it's called entertaining yourself to death something like that uh but essentially it was a book that was written in the 1980s when we find the the book and there's a book that was written you know what it is um using ourselves that's it amusing”
