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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2019
August 2019 podcasts highlighted a mix of fantasy fiction, outdoor cooking guides, memoirs, and contemporary novels. On ChooseFI, Brad Barrett recommended Patrick Rothfuss's fantasy novels The Name of the Wind and its sequel The Wise Man’s Fear, comparing their scope to Lord of the Rings. The Joe Rogan Experience featured Steven Rinella discussing his cookbook, The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game, alongside Vic Dunaway's fisheries guidebooks. Later on the same show, Roy Wood Jr. mentioned reading a filmmaking book by Robert Rodriguez. On The Book Review, Dwight Garner praised Nell Zink's novel Doxology, and Lauren Christensen recommended Toni Morrison's novel Tar Baby. Additionally, on The Tim Ferriss Show, Safi Bahcall discussed Rinpoche Yongey Mingyur's Joyful Wisdom as a book that profoundly influenced his perspective. These discussions frequently touched upon personal inspirations, creative processes, and imaginative storytelling, as hosts and guests shared the works that shaped their literary tastes and professional interests throughout the month.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Perceptrons, Reissue of the 1988 Expanded Edition with a new foreword by Léon Bottou
Discussed“you know he's the guy who co-authored the book perceptron with Marvin Minsky that kind of killed the first wave”
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Frankenstein
Discussed“it's the Frankenstein idea yes the annotator Frankenstein on my coffee table is this tremendous novel”
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The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust
Discussed“and herb had read Proust in the original French twice all the way through”
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Discussed“there was a novelist in town a man named Mark Harris he had just just arrived and his wife Josephine mark was most famous then for a novel called bang the drum solo slowly which was about baseball and Joe and me so eight people and we met monthly”
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Computers and Thought
Discussed“and before that I had worked on a book by edited by Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman called a computers and thought it was the first textbook of readings of AI”
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Machines Who Think
Discussed“and even when I finished machines who think I didn't know if they were gonna succeed”
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Securitising Identity
Discussed“I read several books on Lockheed Martin recently my favorite in particulars by Ben rich called skunkworks personal memoir”
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Skunk Works
Discussed“I read several books on Lockheed Martin recently my favorite in particulars by Ben rich called skunkworks personal memoir”
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Radical Markets
Discussed“like he's written an entire entire technical book about about this whole notion of a radical market”
The Book Review
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This Land
Discussed“his new book this land how Cowboys capitalism and Corruption are ruining the American West is featured on our cover this week of the book review”
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Courting Mr. Lincoln
Discussed“so I'm reading a book that came out earlier this year called courting Mr Lincoln by Louis Bayard”
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Severance
Discussed“well I read a book that I know that at least one of you read as well it was Ling Ma's Severance which came out last year and is out in paperback now”
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The Assault on American Excellence
Discussed“one of the main points I make in my book is that this is bad not just for our schools themselves for higher education but it's bad for the country”
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Sons of Wichita
Discussed“I mean probably most famously by Jane Mayer and dark money and in the New Yorker as well as by Daniel Schulman whose book sons of Witchita is really about the family story of the Cokes”
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Doxology
Recommended“she's really upped her game in her new novel which is called doxology”
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Hunting trips of a ranchman
Discussed“he went out to Dakota bought a ranch and came back and wrote a a book called hunting trips of a ranchman”
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Tar Baby
Recommended“I just finished Tar baby”
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Heads of the colored people
Recommended“a Story collection by nefisa Thompson spes called heads of the colored people”
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Kid Gloves
Recommended“the book is called kid gloves nine months of careful chaos by Lucy nisle”
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Paradise
Discussed“Paradise I agree with Dwight that it does suffer in some ways from being overwritten”
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Jazz
Discussed“Jazz for me is an experiment in voice right”
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Sula
Discussed“and yeah I think my Katie had read she had read Sula because that was the book that I was most fascinated to read”
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The shepherd's hut
Discussed“so I'm talking to him about his most recent book The Shepherd's Hut but about his career as well and so I've been going back and reading some of his his backlist”
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Breath
Recommended“and the one I read most recently is a 2008 novel called breath and it's a fairly short novel by his standards and it's about two teenage boys in Western Australia”
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Cloudstreet
Recommended“oh what first you know there's a big novel from the early 90s called Cloud street that I think is the way that a lot of people find him”
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Dirt music
Recommended“I really loved a novel called dirt music”
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Island Home
Recommended“I really loved this breath and he's got a beautiful Memoir from a few years ago called Island home which is really just a sort of environmentalist activist book about Australia”
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The Doll Factory
Recommended“so I'm reading the doll factory by Elizabeth mcneel which was part of our July Thriller issue”
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Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Recommended“I'm reading a book I said I was going to read it this summer against all of my initial better instincts 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown on the cover it says riging irresistible unput downable”
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The Woman Warrior
Book club“and she said I would like to choose Maxine Hong Kingston's Memoir the woman warrior”
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Confirmation Bias
Discussed“Carl hul will join us to talk about his new book confirmation bias”
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In West Mills
Discussed“Deshawn Charles Winslow will tell us about his debut novel in West Mills”
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Gods of the Upper Air
Discussed“so this week I reviewed a book called gods of the upper air by Charles King who's a professor at Georgetown and it's a book that's essentially a group portrait of the Anthropologist France Boaz and his Circle”
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Our Women on the Ground
Discussed“it's called our women on the essays by Arab women reporting from the Arab world”
ChooseFI
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The Name of the Wind
Recommended“they're the book called The Name of the Wind”
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The Wise Man’s Fear
Recommended“and the second part in the trilogy is the wise man's fear these uh fiction their fantasy books let's say similar to Lord of the Rings and their scope by Patrick rothfuss”
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Reset : How to Restart Your Life and Get F. U. Money
Discussed“are there like resources you know reset obviously some of this is documented inside the book reset”
Behind the Bastards
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Master Mind
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote from the book Mastermind by Daniel Charles, which is a a biography of Fritz Haber. Quote, "Young Fritz developed a knack for the composition of rhyming verse, even on the spur of the moment.”
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De Magnete
Discussed“Gilbert published a book demagnete in which he carried out comprehensive experiments to test popular health claims about magnets and proved that they had zero validity.”
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Judas
Discussed“Her selling where you're just like no you can be like hey it's like the the whole point of the book of Judas you know they left that out because it was like supposedly it was just like I don't know much about this what Jesus was about was just being like no no no you're your own god”
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Everything You Love Will Burn
Discussed“Everything you love will burn by Vegas Tinhold chronicles the movement during this period.”
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Them
Discussed“In the last chapter, I mentioned John Ronson's them. John's book gives us a look at the movement in the late 1990s from the perspective of individuals like Alex Jones.”
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Blood and politics
Discussed“Here's how Leonard Zeskin summarizes the proceedings in blood and politics. For two and a half days, they met in committee, deliberated in plenary sessions”
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The American Terrorist
Discussed“As this story from American terrorist, the fantastic biography of McBay makes clear. Tim was playing near the pond when he noticed one of the older neighborhood boys carrying a burlap sack.”
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Bring the War Home
Discussed“I'm going to quote now from Bring the War Home. They took their induction oath on Matthews farm. They stood in a circle around a white female infant who symbolized the race they sought to protect.”
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Safe Building. A Treatise Giving ... the Practical and Theoretical Rules and Formulae Used in the Construction of Buildings
Discussed“He did start making other plans. Oh, he continued to write. Oh, no. Yeah. Spoilers. It ends with a federal building exploding. Actually, so Beam continued to write speeches, newsletters, and articles in various far-right journals of record, culminating in his 1983 book, Essays of a Clansmen.”
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Blue Book
Discussed“Here's a line from one of their 1960s publications, The Blue Book, which William Pierce would certainly have read. Now, if the danger from the communist conspiracy were all we had to worry about, it would be enough.”
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Explaining Hitler
Discussed“In his 1998 book Explaining Hitler, journalist and historian Ron Rosenbaum turned to the table talk records several times in his attempt to understand, in essence, how bouncing baby Adolf turned into the genocidal warlord we all know and hate.”
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The Magic Ladder to Success
Critiqued“Napoleon remains in New York City so he can write his second book, which he calls the magic ladder to success. But this wound up being so badly written that his publisher was unwilling to bother printing it.”
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A Lifetime of Riches
Discussed“So, I'm going to quote again from his biography, A Lifetime of Riches. He made a grand entrance, striding with starched purposefulness to the registration desk.”
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Mental Dynamite
Discussed“So Oliver Napoleon Hill never again repeated the staggering success of Think and Grow Rich. He continued to write and lecture for the rest of his life, but most of that life was spent near the edge of financial collapse. His next book, Mental Dynamite, published in 1941, was a flop.”
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In Tune with the Infinite
Discussed“I'm going to quote again from that conversation article. Quote, "A book that illustrates the new thought movement shift towards individual prosperity is Ralph Waldo Trin's in tune with the infinite. A popular writer and lecturer, Tr taught that one's ability to channel positive thoughts would lead to success.”
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Ancient Society
Discussed“I'm going to quote from a Guardian report on the matter. The first real splash in this arena came from the anthropologist Lewis Morgan in his book Ancient Society. In the book, Morgan presented the results of his study”
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Discussed“Morgan's work hit a broader audience when it was taken up by Friedrich Les, most famous for being the co-author of the Communist Manifesto in his book, The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State. Less drew on Morgan's data, as well as evidence from around the world”
Freakonomics Radio
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Just Food
Discussed“The agricultural historian James McWilliams, in a book called Just Food, argues that, quote,”
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Parentology
Discussed“In 2014, he wrote a book called Parentology. It's about, well, here, let's have him tell you. I think the subtitle says it all, which is a social scientist experiments on his kids so you don't have to.”
StarTalk Radio
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The Relativity of Wrong
Discussed“And taking a cue from Isaac Asimov, in an essay he once wrote called "The Relativity of Wrong,"”
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Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Discussed“In one of my books I have a chapter called On Earth as in the Heavens. It's all about the effort to discover laws of physics on Earth, and the question about whether they apply in places other than Earth.”
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Mathematics
Discussed“C, one of the books behind you on a shelf is called Mathematics and Art, a book written by an art curator, who is fascinated by the role of science as it has influenced art, and I was privileged to be asked to write the forward to that book.”
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Smarter Than You Think
Discussed“Dude, dude, so you, you have a book from a few years ago. - Yeah, yeah. - "Smarter Than You Think"? - Yep. - "How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For The Better. - Yes sir.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Stephen King Goes to the Movies
Discussed“but the idea was based on a Stephen King book and the Stephen King book where there was a guy who was sort of slow and they did something to him and all of a sudden he became some super genius almost godlike character”
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The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook
Discussed“you know i found out about eating it because my brother found out about eating it because he has this old cookbook called the ll bean it's like the yellow bean wild game cookbook um by a guy named angus first name of angus if i remember right and he's got a shank like he's got a shank recipe in”
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The Complete Guide to Hunting, Butchering, and Cooking Wild Game
Recommended“so obviously like when we did our cookbook i tried really hard to steer away from things that would be elk recipes deer recipes and just take it from a cut basis cookbook is excellent”
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Sport Fish of the Gulf of Mexico
Recommended“you know what's funny about great whites is there's a guy there's a writer i love and he does all these fisheries guidebooks named vic dunaway i don't know if he's dead or alive but i got all of his books He's got like gulf coast pacific ocean atlantic coast um he does these books like it's like all the”
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The Relationship Between Student Motivation to Learn and Cooperative Learning Methods
Recommended“yo i read a book um rebel without a crew i think it's um i think rich rodriguez i think is think is his name and he was a filmmaker and he made the i can't remember the name of the movie but it was the prequel to what became desperado oh robert rodriguez yes”
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Total Recall
Discussed“and it was like when he was holding the girl hostage she was in the house like let's look up uh what flights are around and it's just such obvious atari graphics on the screen and it's like the year 2050.”
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Bitten
Discussed“it's called bitten yes that's it chris newby k with k-r-i-s chris”
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Dead Doctors Don't Lie
Recommended“well there's a great book called dead doctors don't lie, but this guy Joel Wallach and what a lot of it has to do with nutrition”
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The Culture Of Fear
Discussed“no i'm part of this new podcast it's called fear not uh a guy named barry glasner and barry glasner wrote this book called the culture of fear and it was all about how fear is used as business right they keep you scared so that they could sell you things”
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Merchants of Doubt
Discussed“and um i'm sure some of it has to do with lobbyists and some of it has to do with merchants of doubt that go out there and seed the world with disinformation to try to increase their profits and continue the practices that they're currently enjoying”
EconTalk
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
Discussed“among his other books are history of world war ii the storm of war and napoleon”
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Napoleon
Discussed“among his other books are history of world war ii the storm of war and napoleon a life”
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Thomas B. Love correspondence to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and accompanying materials
Discussed“and in particular I know that when I interviewed Thomas Rix about his book Churchill Lenore well I think I think it was that a number of listeners were upset”
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Philosophical Explanations
Discussed“is it philosophical explanations is that the name of it that's correct that's the big long book I feel a lot of that book fails”
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Understanding by Design
Discussed“there's kind of a a classic textbook on instructional design called understanding by Design”
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Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic
Recommended“and uh there's this wonderful Professor Constance Kami who uh wrote a book called young children reinvent arithmetic wherein she documents her experiments”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Hunting Apes
Discussed“there's a book called hunting Apes”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Inside the Five-Sided Box
Discussed“and we know now from his book that just came out inside the five sided box he was terribly disappointed at the results”
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Wabi-sabi
Discussed“Leonard I want to say it's that same scorn wrote a book called wabi-sabi in which he conflated two words Wabi and sabi”
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The Icarus Deception
Discussed“what advice would you have for somebody who as you put it in is it the Icarus deception I always mess this title up”
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Blink
Discussed“and Malcolm Gladwell writes a little bit about this in blink 2 right”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Joyful Wisdom
Recommended“and the way I visualize it and this comes from a book that probably influenced me more than any other on many of these aspects and I'll tell you what that it's called joyful wisdom and I've probably given that book to more people than I can count”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Me and the Devil
Discussed“I'm reading the devil and Sonny Liston right now someone on the movie gave it to me one of the sound guys”
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The Devil and Sonny Liston
Discussed“I'm reading the devil and Sonny Liston right now someone on the movie gave it to me one of the sound guys”
Modern Wisdom
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Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance
Recommended“you can read all these text books you can read my book 1020 life you can read give into the injury ultimate back fitness and performance so on and so forth back mechanic”
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Gift of Injury
Recommended“they need to read back mechanic and gift of injury to find their pain triggers and to remove them once they remove them I can show them how to implement the exercises to build them back”
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Recommended“earlier this year a professor from Harvard Business School names Shoshanna subha published a book called the age of surveillance captain it actually came out in Europe in the fall of last year but it came out in the States in January and it changed our lives because Shoshanna has been studying Google for more than a decade and she”
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Ultralearning
Recommended“isn't the it definitely info as I read through ultra learning it it it just strikes such a question about the current education system”
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Creative Blindness (And How To Cure It)
Recommended“so this is from a brilliant book for it actually an amazing advertiser kind of in his heyday seventies 89 it's called Dave Trott and he's written a lovely book called creative blindness and he talks about Julius Caesar”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Hate Me Now, Love Me Later
Discussed“so hate me now love me later yeah look man well that's the book right that's the book”
