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Episode: Politics In Writing Comics & Can the Democrats Be Saved? | Gregg Hurwitz | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Published on October 15, 2018

Hereโ€™s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

12 Rules for Life Cover

12 Rules for Life

by Jordan B. Peterson

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and then you know look I put his rules for life in orphan acts

The speaker mentions incorporating Jordan Peterson's 'rules for life' into his Orphan X book.

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cover

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J.K. Rowling

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like you know he talks about Harry Potter a lot or the story of Pinocchio or just different things

The host mentions Jordan Peterson discussing getting truth from fiction, using Harry Potter as an example.

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Jaws

by Peter Benchley

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and so all that I did was read and so I was like climbing the bookshelves to get to you know jaws on the top shelf

The speaker mentions reading the book Jaws as a child.

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Le avventure di Pinocchio Cover

Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

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like you know he talks about Harry Potter a lot or the story of Pinocchio or just different things

The host mentions Jordan Peterson discussing getting truth from fiction, using Pinocchio as an example.

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Orphan X Cover

Orphan X

by Gregg Hurwitz

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There's a lot of Punisher in orphan ax2

The speaker (Gregg Hurwitz, author of the Orphan X series) mentions themes from his comic book work (Punisher) being present in 'orphan ax2', likely referring to his Orphan X series or a specific book within it.

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The Gulag Archipelago Cover

The Gulag Archipelago

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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like we had little like Gulag Archipelago like table settings

The speaker mentions having table settings related to The Gulag Archipelago at his wedding.

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The Silence of the Lambs Cover

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

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it's sort of like that Buffalo Bill wasn't really the interesting bad guy in Silence of the Lambs

The speaker mentions the character Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs while discussing villains in stories.

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Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining) Cover

Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining)

by Stephen King

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and I still remember reading Salem's Lot like under my bed with a flashlight

The speaker mentions reading Salem's Lot as a child and being terrified.

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