Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2023-06-22
Books mentioned on What Has Happened To The Love For America? - Jack Carr - #644
Jack Carr is a former United States Navy SEAL, outdoor adventurer and author of The Terminal List series. The lives of Navy SEALs have been romanticised on screen and in books for decades.
Jack Carr recommended Die with Zero by Bill Perkins, and discussed The Chamber by John Grisham, The Firm by John Grisham, A Time to Kill by John Grisham, Plan X by Brian Mora, and The Accidental Superpower by Mr. Peter Zeihan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Die with Zero
Die with Zero by Bill Perkins is a personal finance and lifestyle book that challenges traditional saving habits by advocating for the strategic use of wealth to maximize life experiences while alive rather than hoarding money for old age.
Recommended“bill perkins guy who wrote die with zero it's a very short book about um how to use money to enjoy life as opposed to saving indefinitely it's fantastic it's three hours i would die with zero”
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The Chamber
John Grisham's gripping legal thriller The Chamber tells the tense story of a young lawyer who takes on the daunting case of a former Ku Klux Klan member sitting on death row in Mississippi, uncovering painful family secrets along the way.
Discussed“I thought of that John Grisham story about he wrote A Time to Kill first and he couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and we've had a John Grisham novel every year in some years two John Christian novels every year since”
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The Firm
The Firm by John Grisham is a gripping legal thriller published in 1991 that follows a young lawyer who joins a prestigious firm, only to discover it is a front for the mafia.
Discussed“he couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and we've had a John Grisham novel every year in some years two John Christian novels every year since”
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A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill by John Grisham is a bestselling legal thriller about a racially charged murder trial in Mississippi that explores profound themes of justice, revenge, and prejudice.
Discussed“thought of that John Grisham story about he wrote A Time to Kill first and he couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and we've had a John Grisham novel every year”
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Plan X
Discussed“I knew a little bit about it but not nearly as much as I did after I read those that book which led me to two other books and then multiple conversations with Brian Mora about it”
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The Accidental Superpower
The Accidental Superpower by Mr.
Discussed“and The Accidental Superpower was one that I read on the way to Mozambique back then in the summer fall of 2016 when I got out of the military and really informed my second novel True Believer”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“um uh in the first book so all those little things really ended up making it very personal as did the uh the more dramatic”
“and that's what I'm in my last in in the blood that's what I wanted to write a sniper-centric novel last time without that uh scene of two snipers on opposite hillsides or buildings that are looking for each other and then they're looking and then they find each other at the last second and one guy shoots and it”
“Found a little cabin not too far away and I thought I was going to do it for this last book for only the dead and then I got up there and it's about a mile from our house I can actually see the house from this little cabin”
“and then I pulled some some really late nights uh and pulled a couple all-nighters which are getting harder to do the older I get uh for Savage son a few books back no no problem”
“Have a non-fiction book come coming out on Beirut the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing there's the pot there's all those things”
“and because of that they've made it in here made it into this last wow so uh that's that's Brian Moore”
“so I submitted the second one True Believer and they took out they took well I had to push the publication date”