Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-04-12
Books mentioned on #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Slouching Toward Nirvana
Discussed“maybe it's silly but i look for the magic that charles bukowski writes about in his poem nirvana”
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker's Pulitzer Prize-winning psychological study argues that human civilization, culture, and motivation are fundamentally driven by an underlying terror of mortality.
Discussed“i i mean i'm with ernest becker as a philosopher uh he wrote a book called denial of death”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella warning against the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism through the story of farm animals staging a rebellion.
Discussed“and one of my favorite books is animal farm by orwell and the horses don't get a good ending in that”
