Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on Ronen Bergman on Israel’s Targeted Assassinations
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Rise and kill first
Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman is an extensive investigative history detailing the targeted assassinations and covert intelligence operations utilized by Israel over several decades.
Discussed“I think that the conclusion of rise and kill first after these long but enjoyable eight years of research is that when targeted killings and assassinations are done as part of an overall policy when they are conducting on a tactical level and as in a systematic pace and not just as a one time in order to show that”
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Fair Shot
Discussed“Felix salmon joins us now he reviews a new book by Chris Hughes called fair shot rethinking inequality and how we learn”
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World Without Mind
World Without Mind is a nonfiction book examining the existential threats posed by big technology companies and their monopolistic control over information.
Discussed“so listeners of the podcast May remember Frank fer who was on the podcast last fall for his book world without mine also wrote about this episode from the perspective of the then editor and chief of the magazine who Chris Hughes fired”
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Ulysses
Ulysses by James Joyce is a monumental modernist novel that chronicles a single day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin, mirroring the structure of Homer's Odyssey.
Discussed“I am finally reading a book that I have resisted for decades I'm reading James Joyce's ulyses”
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Daisy Miller
Discussed“and then I read Daisy Miller which is james' short book it's almost just a a Nela really about um a young girl who gets corded by winterborn this man who finds her very Innocent but charming and everyone else thinks she's just a crass American and I enjoy that a lot”
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein by Mary W.
Discussed“now I'm on something very different which is Mary Shell's Frankenstein it's the 200th anniversary of the book and so I got this nice new edition of it and figured that it would be a good time to read it”
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My Family and other Animals
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Malcolm Durrell is a classic autobiographical memoir that recounts the eccentric and enchanting childhood of the author and his family on the Greek island of Corfu, filled with vivid observations of local flora and fauna.
Recommended“so I'm reading my family and other animals which is a a memoir by the British naturalist Gerald derell and I have to put it in context a little bit”
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Not My Father's Son
Alan Cumming’s memoir Not My Father's Son delves into the actor's painful childhood, family secrets, and the complicated relationship he shared with his abusive father.
Recommended“I will confess that what I just finished was a celebrity Memoir but it's a very un celebrity-like celebrity Memoir Alan Cummings Memoir not my Father's son which has you know a little bit of hint of Glamour here and there because he is alen and I am a super fan of especially his of course his appearance in Cabaret”
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The Moonstone
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a pioneering nineteenth-century epistolary detective novel centering on the dramatic theft of a priceless diamond and the complex web of secrets surrounding its disappearance.
Discussed“but in the recent classic that I picked up which is wiy Collins's the Moonstone it was very grateful at the beginning of the introduction there was a note that said this contains plot spoilers”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Ronan Bergman is the author of the bestselling book rise and kill first the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations”
“Ronan Bergman is the author of the bestselling book rise and kill first the secret history of Israel's targeted assassinations”
“he's also the protagonist of Joyce's debut novel portrait of the Artist as a Young Man so again you're bringing those associations into your reading of this book”