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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2018
During October 2018, podcasts featured discussions spanning classic literature, personal development, business, and historical warnings. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan recommended the play and film adaptation Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee while discussing Elizabeth Taylor, and Geoffrey Miller later discussed relationship guides. Modern Wisdom hosted Chris Williamson, who recommended David Deida's The Way of the Superior Man for couples looking to build intimacy through exercises, as well as Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project for exploring the remembered self. The Book Review highlighted several notable titles, including Sylvia Jukes Morris's biography Rage for Fame, recommended by Pamela Paul, and Joshua Cooper Ramo's business network exploration The Seventh Sense, suggested by Reid Hoffman. Additionally, Dwight Garner praised James Dickey's novel Deliverance. On The Rubin Report, Glenn Beck recommended Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler as a historical warning against political polarization, while ChooseFI featured Dr. Jim Dahle discussing Eric Tyson's Mutual Funds for Dummies as his introduction to personal finance literature.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Recommended“did you ever see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf uh-huh it's a must see it's a great great old movie”
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Fight for the Forgotten
Discussed“He just wrote a book it's available in Amazon I think it's called like [ __ ] from victim Victor”
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If I Did It
Discussed“Well how about the book If I did it”
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Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution
Discussed“like most diets nowadays they actually you know they kind of stick to one aspect like the Atkins diet you know it sticks to the types of foods”
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The Zone
Discussed“you know like Zone diet is portion size we we actually stick to all of them you know like type timing portion size women response food”
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The Art of Living and Dying
Discussed“i've been reading his book and it's actually pretty interesting i actually have it right here the art of living and dying and uh he he wrote this book”
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The Art of Living
Recommended“I've been reading his book and it's actually pretty interesting I actually have it right here the art of living and dying and uh he he wrote this book yeah he wrote this book after he became osho or maybe they published it after he became osho but it's a very good book”
Behind the Bastards
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Was Karl Marx a Satanist?
Discussed“I remember very specifically that he had a book in Spanish and the title was, "Was Karl Marx a Satanist?" And I thought, "Who is this person?"”
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Scientology 8-80
Critiqued“He continuously expanded his claims of what Scientology could achieve in the book Scientology 8 to80. I don't know what that's a reference to. He bragged with this book. The ability to make one's body old or young at will.”
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A History of Man
Discussed“In July of 1952, Elron Hubard published the history of man. He called it quote a cold-blooded and factual account of your last 60 trillion years. In it, he promised that with Scientology, the blind will again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane, and the sane will become ser.”
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Mission into time
Discussed“In Mission into Time, a Scientology book, though, he spun his basic vacation with his parents in China into quote, "In China, he met an old musician whose ancestors had served in the court of Kublakhan and a Hindu who could hypnotize cats.”
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Right to Live Right to Die
Discussed“Uh, in 1976 he published The Right to Live, The Right to Die, which argued against both abortion and euthanasia. Uh, the book sold 100,000 copies, mostly to Christian readers in its first year.”
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After the Wrath of God
Discussed“Uh, here's a quote from the book, After the Wrath of God, titled Doctor Unqualified. The New York Times editorial board lauded Coup's work as a pediatric surgeon, but underscored his lack of public health experience.”
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The Rise and Fall of Ferdinand Marcos
Discussed“I'm going to quote from the rise and fall of Ferdinand Marcos from the University of California Press. quote, "The US style judicial system with an adversary process that emasculated the poor and complex procedures that endlessly delayed decisions could not cope with injustice and crime."”
Modern Wisdom
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The Way of the Superior Man
Recommended“so david deida way of the superior man has a book and then he has a series of exercises that you can do guided with your partner”
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The Ethics of Touch
Discussed“so there's a book called the ethics of touch and I was recommended to anyone who is a clinician or suppose that involves touching someone”
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The Happiness Project
Recommended“because guys are saying Gretchen Rubin the Happiness Project you should check out if you want to learn how more about how to extend your remembered self life through the use of novelty”
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The Happiness Fantasy
Discussed“And then we move on to his new book, which is called The Happiness Fantasy.”
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The Triumph of the Therapeutic
Discussed“You have Philip Rieff a little bit earlier than that speaking in the triumph of the therapeutic that really today we have lost faith in these various institutions”
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The Promise of Happiness
Discussed“Sara Ahmed wrote this book The Promise of Happiness, and and and she makes a really good point”
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Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement
Recommended“I will make sure that the link to Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement, The Wellness Syndrome, and The Happiness Fantasy”
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The Wellness Syndrome
Recommended“I will make sure that the link to Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement, The Wellness Syndrome, and The Happiness Fantasy”
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The Science of Enlightenment
Discussed“You mentioned Shinzon Young who I know I really want to get onto who is one of your meditation teachers and he talks in the science of enlightenment His book he likens meditation to a magic trick that can double your life by increasing the depth of experience”
The Book Review
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This Boy's Life
Discussed“during this process I read Tobias Wolf's This Boy's Life and I noticed that the more devious young Tobias was and the more mischievous and bad and practically criminal he was the more I loved him”
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My Struggle:
Discussed“I my husband is reading the the the newest Carl O kargard my struggle book six because he's read all the others and I Know Carl O received like multiple letters from family members about his book and saying it was wrong”
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The Secret Place
Discussed“it's called the secret place”
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Rage for fame
Recommended“so I just finished rage for fame the ascent of clar Booth Loose by Sylvia Jukes Morris”
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Go, Went, Gone
Discussed“I'm reading a German novel by Jenny erpenbeck called go went gone”
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The Nix
Discussed“I am reading the Knicks by Nathan Hill and for the past couple of years I've been both writing my own novel and I was doing a story about Jonathan Franzen”
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What I Saw at the Revolution
Discussed“when I was writing my first book long time ago I for reasons not that interesting to go into mostly curiosity I picked up Peggy nunan's what I saw at the Revolution and she has a very particular voice”
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The seventh sense
Recommended“the kinds of other things that I think are interesting in like a business book Arena are like Joshua Cooper Ramos's seventh sense which is kind of networks about howlies the new world of networks and what that means”
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The Wife
Discussed“and her 2003 novel the wife has recently been turned into a feature film starring Glenn Close and Jonathan price and Meg is here to talk to me about the process of that movie coming into being hi Meg”
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Wildlife
Discussed“there's an adaptation of a Richard Ford novel called Wildlife directed first feature directed by the actor Paul do with Carrie Mulligan Jake Gyllenhaal Bill Camp that's a long time ago that novel”
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Beautiful Boy
Discussed“there's also an adaptation of kind of two books in one which is sort of interesting uh a movie called Beautiful Boy which is based not on fiction but on two Memoirs by uh David and Nick Chef Father and Son”
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Tweak
Discussed“both of the books one called Beautiful Boy the together called tweak dealing with Nick Chef's meth addiction and the movie which stars Steve Carell and Timothy shalamay tries to interweave the two perspectives of those books”
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Deliverance
Recommended“a book book in a film that I I really love are Deliverance uh the James Dicky novel and and also the film version”
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Discussed“he meant the world to me pulling radical Chic off my father's shelf when I was maybe 12 or 13 and reading it”
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In the Woods
Discussed“one of my very astute colleagues here was just doing a rereading of your first novel in the woods from 2007”
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Florida
Discussed“Lauren grath was nominated for Florida”
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The friend
Discussed“Sig Nunes for a friend which was a very well regarded novel”
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Where the dead sit talking
Discussed“and Brandon Hobson for where the dead sit talking which is by Soho press”
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The Indian world of George Washington
Discussed“Colin callaways the Indian world of George Washington was one of them for nonfiction”
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Heartland
Discussed“Sarah smarland which was her Memoir which many people are comparing to JD Vance”
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American Eden
Discussed“Victoria Johnson's non-fiction book American Eden David hosac botany and Medicine inressa”
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We the corporations
Discussed“and another livite book Adam Winkler's we the corporations how American businesses W their Civil Rights was shortlisted as well”
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The Poet X
Discussed“That novel is the poet X by Elizabeth ASO”
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Hey, Kiddo
Discussed“the short list also included a graphic Memoir hey kiddo by Jarrett kosasa which we wrote about”
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Discussed“and the other shortlisted books for young people's literature included Leslie Connor's the truth As Told by Mason butle”
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
Discussed“and the assassination of brang wayin spurge which I love that title by Mt Anderson and Eugene yelin”
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The journey of little Charlie
Discussed“and the journey of little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis”
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American sonnets for my past and future assassin
Discussed“Terrence Hayes made the cut for American Sunnet from a past and future assassin which was a a fantastic collection”
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Wobble
Discussed“Ray Arman Trout's wobble by which was published by Wesleyan University press was a finalist”
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Indecency
Discussed“Justin Philip Reeds indecency from Coffee House Press was a finalist”
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Eye level
Discussed“Jenny Z's eye level from Greywolf press was a finalist”
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Ghost of
Discussed“and finally Diana Co nen her collection ghost of which was published by omnid Don publishing was a finalist”
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Godsend
Discussed“I I read a novel this week by uh youngish writer now named John Ray w a y this new one is called godsend”
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Terrorist
Discussed“a famously maligned book about about 911 about terrorism as John upc's novel terrorism which frankly I don't think is quite as bad”
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The Essex Serpent
Discussed“it's called melmoth by Sarah Perry who wrote a book called the Essex serpent which came out I think last year”
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Melmoth
Discussed“it's called melmoth by Sarah Perry who wrote a book called the Essex serpent”
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American prison
Discussed“Shane Bower will be here to discuss his book American prison”
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Orlando
Discussed“it's a bit like Wolf's Orlando”
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Foe
Discussed“and one of the many that he mentions is a novel called foe fo OE by JM CA and I hadn't read Cay in a while so I picked up this also kind of Slender novel”
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To Fight Against This Age
Discussed“Rob Ryman who came out with a slender book earlier this year called to fight against this age on fascism and humanism”
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Jack Robinson
Recommended“it's called Robinson it's by a writer named Jack Robinson and that's actually a pen name for a British publisher named Charles Bole and he he runs this small publishing company that publishes this book and others”
The Rubin Report
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Closing of the American Mind
Discussed“Allan bloom I'm sure you've read the closing of the American mind you know he is claimed is that professors lost faith in the idea of the University as a sort of separate space where you you simply thought about things you didn't get involved”
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Wayward Sons
Discussed“There was a report that came out a few years ago called wayward sons It came out of MIT to economists talking about how in a number of different metrics whether it was skills acquisition real wages there's just employment numbers job status men are falling behind women really shockingly”
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Addicted to Outrage
Discussed“I want to spend a lot of time talking about this book here addicted to outrage but let's just do everything”
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IBM and the Holocaust
Discussed“The guy who wrote IBM in the Holocaust I can't remember his name Really brilliant guy”
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Defying Hitler
Recommended“read the book defying Hitler the best best explanation of what happened in Germany ever written by a guy at the time as a warning to the West go”
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Orphan X
Discussed“There's a lot of Punisher in orphan ax2”
ChooseFI
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Smart Couples Finish Rich, Revised and Updated
Discussed“I think there was one I don't know that I've ever mentioned this before but it's I think it's called how smart couples get rich by maybe David Bach I read that years ago probably like right as I was meeting my wife and I think maybe those two books were were my first introduction”
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Mutual funds for dummies
Recommended“I stopped in at a bookstores Barnes and Noble or something and I saw mutual funds for dummies a book by Eric Tyson and I said I own some mutual funds and I'm kind of a dummy I should read that book and so I did”
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Retire secure!
Recommended“another person that was talking about it early on was James Lang who wrote the book retire secure excellent book”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Pinheads and Patriots Plus The O'Reilly Factor for Kids
Discussed“he's on the show today we're gonna when we come back he's gonna talk about his new book called pinheads and patriots and then she looked at Bill and she goes at this point I I'm not sure which you are or something like that”
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Pinheads and Patriots
Discussed“he's on the show today we're gonna when we come back he's gonna talk about his new book called pinheads and patriots and then she looked at Bill and she goes at this point I I'm not sure which you are or something like that”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The History, Civil, Political and Military, of the Southern Rebellion
Discussed“I read a book called the history of force self-published by a political scientist named James Payne on the historical decline of violence and that was one of the inspirations for the better angels of our nature”
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One, Two, Three-- Infinity
Discussed“the what about early on if we look back when you're maybe a teenager loved a book called one two three infinity”
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Reflections on Language
Discussed“it was one of the things I would say the I read as a college student the book reflections on language by Noam Chomsky spent most of his career here at MIT”
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Ever Since Darwin
Discussed“Stephen Jay Gould first collection ever since Darwin also excellent example of lively writing”
