Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-12-31
Books mentioned on #150 – Michael Malice: The White Pill, Freedom, Hope, and Happiness Amidst Chaos
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Idiot
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a classic 19th-century novel that follows Prince Myshkin, a deeply compassionate and innocent protagonist whose goodness often puts him at odds with the cynical society around him.
Discussed“again i strive to be like the main character of the idiot by dostoyevsky that's my new year's resolution”
Where to get it
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The Giver
The Giver by Lois Lowry is a classic young adult dystopian novel that follows a young boy chosen to inherit his community's sole repository of human memory and emotion.
Discussed“when i was when i first came to this country i read the book the giver i need to read it again”
Where to get it
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The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus is a philosophical essay that explores the concept of the absurd and the search for meaning in a seemingly meaningless universe.
Discussed“the myth of sisyphus which i had remembered incorrectly is actually just a five like seven five to seven page like coda to the whole book at the very end”
Where to get it
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Beyond belief
Beyond Belief by Deborah E.
Recommended“there's a book called beyond belief by deborah lipstadt she talks about the rise of nazi germany as seen through the press”
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Red Famine
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum is a historical work detailing the devastating man-made famine in Ukraine orchestrated by the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin.
Recommended“and anne applebaum i think the book is called red famine came out fairly recently and she brings the receipts and she's a you know this is something i really hate with the binary thinkers”
Where to get it
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L.
Discussed“yeah i i would say just as a small aside that's why reading as i'm almost done with uh the rise and fall of the third reich”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“i've been on his show in for worse a few times when i was researching my book then you write so i had had conversations with him before”
“it was a north korea book i published that came out in 2014. i went there in 2012. came out in january 2014.”
“i was i think the first one to have an hour on book tv for dear reader because that was a kickstarter book”
“the white pill the white pill are you self-publishing that oh yeah for sure”
“dear reader the unauthorized autobiography of kim jong-il”
“so i wrote dear reader by going to north korea and getting all their propaganda which is translated into several languages”
“so if you have to look it's like looking to the sun if you stare at it straight on it's very hard to do so you have to kind of look at it obliquely”
“well for people who don't know this is out of context that you have written a great book that includes some of these concepts called the new right which is not includes these concepts but talks about”
“i own her copy of the foundation”