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Every book Alex Stein recommended on podcasts
Alex Stein’s most recommended books
- Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Space Relations by Donald Barr
- The Book of Enoch by Enoch
- The Shining by Stephen King
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Alex Stein is a media personality and commentator known for his appearances on the podcast Timcast IRL. Across multiple episodes of the show, he brought up several books and texts while discussing current events, conspiracy theories, and political strategy. He mentioned Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic book Watchmen as a masterpiece while talking about vengeance and accountability. He referenced a school reading of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird to compare how classmates reacted to a slur with its use in the book. Stein also discussed Donald Barr's novel Space Relations and Ingersoll Lockwood's 19th-century novel Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey in the context of alternative histories and time travel theories. Additionally, he cited The Book of Enoch when discussing alternative theories about ancient giants and monumental architecture, and brought up Aldous Huxley's Brave New World to compare futuristic societal distraction to modern media consumption. Finally, Stein mentioned Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals on multiple occasions while analyzing political strategy and counter-tactics against opponents.
Books recommended by Alex Stein
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Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky is a political guidebook detailing tactics for community organizers and activists seeking social and political change.
Discussed“it's Saul alinsky's Rules for Radicals and that's kind of like using the less you know guidebook against him”
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Watchmen
Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is a landmark graphic novel set in an alternate history that deconstructs the superhero genre against the backdrop of Cold War tensions.
Recommended“You know, Watchmen, are you guys familiar with that a little bit? Oh, it's a masterpiece. You got to read the comic. Watchmen.”
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme surveillance, historical denial, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“and you think about it doesn't have to be the 1984 you know make you watch a video with your eyes wide open”
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Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood is a late 19th-century children's fantasy novel about a young aristocrat named Baron Trump navigating strange subterranean worlds.
Discussed“In 1988, a publication of Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey. And in the book, it was about a character named Baron Trump and his guide is named Dawn. Now, I've heard that that book got wrote later, like it's more recent, but they just make it look like it's an old book. This is saying it came out in 1896”
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Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic dystopian science fiction novel that depicts a technologically advanced future society controlled through engineered reproduction, psychological conditioning, and constant superficial pleasure.
Discussed“well in the book Brave New World I I think they called it talkies or whatever but like in the future everybody's going to be on SOS and the content that they would watch was basically like pornography with explosions like basically out of the movie Idiocracy you ever seen that movie”
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Space Relations
Space Relations by Donald Barr is a 1973 science fiction novel featuring interplanetary travel, elite oligarchies, and themes of sexual exploitation.
Discussed“Donald Bar, he hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher in 1973. He wrote a novel called Space Relations, a slightly gothic interplanetary tale and it includes interdimensional sex. Could that be the one that is Bill Bar's father, Donald Bar?”
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The Book of Enoch
The Book of Enoch is an ancient non-canonical Jewish apocalyptic text attributed to the patriarch Enoch that details the fall of the watchers, celestial giants, and heavenly realms.
Discussed“No, everybody knows it's from the Nephilim in the book of Enoch, the Jewish giants used to roam the earth and that the Smithsonian are hiding.”
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The Shining
The Shining by Stephen King is a classic psychological horror novel about a struggling writer descending into madness while caretaking an isolated winter hotel.
Discussed“and you know they say in The Shining that you know he left Clues like you know the little kids wearing an Apollo 11 shirt”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores themes of racial injustice, moral growth, and empathy in the American South through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
Discussed“But at the time, and this was like this was this was over 10 years ago, but I think at the time there were children in my class that were a little bit they had probably never heard it before, so they were like disturbed to hear it, but it wasn't like Tequila Mockingbird.”
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Appearances
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I just remember in eighth grade when my teacher was reading Uncle Tom's cabin, she let that thing when they were doing [laughter] she let that thing we were doing popcorn reading.”
“She was popcorn reading for what was it? The mocking Jay, the classic one.”
“Wait, did you guys have to read uh Huckleberry Finn? I think I think we read that has a couple inbombs in it.”
“No, everybody knows it's from the Nephilim in the book of Enoch, the Jewish giants used to roam the earth and that the Smithsonian are hiding.”
“now they want them to change their name back to the Redskins like the Cleveland Indians now they're the Guardians like it it's it's orwellian it's 1984”
“like basically out of the movie Idiocracy you ever seen that movie”
“I actually got to get this for uh uh 1299 you can send me your credit card and you can join the Church of Scientology L Ron Hubbard we're going to get you on a dietetics program if you want to go clear”
“I actually got to get this for uh uh 1299 you can send me your credit card and you can join the Church of Scientology L Ron Hubbard we're going to get you on a dietetics program if you want to go clear um yeah that's what we call it yes are you kidding sir don't insult the man You”