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Every book Ian Crossland recommended on podcasts
Ian Crossland’s most recommended books
- Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
- The infinity gauntlet by Jim Starlin
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Fallout by Ellen Hopkins
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- Always with Honor by Pyotr Wrangel
- Bibliography [of Works By] John Money, Ph. D. and Members the Psychohormonal Research Unit, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pediatrics, The John Hopkins University School of Medicine by John Money
- Fury: Stallion of Broken Wheel Ranch by Albert G. Miller
Ian Crossland appears on Timcast IRL to discuss current events, politics, and media, frequently bringing up various books and comic books that connect to the topics at hand. During discussions about military combat and strategy, Crossland recommended Albert G. Miller's novel Fury: Stallion of Broken Wheel Ranch alongside the film adaptation to illustrate the claustrophobia and horrors of World War II tank combat, and he praised Pyotr Wrangel's Always with Honor as the definitive book on civil war and revolution. When the conversation turned to leadership, crowd dynamics, and historical strategy, he recommended Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings, which he noted was mistranslated and should be called the book of five scrolls. He also brought up Guanzhong Luo's Romance of the Three Kingdoms during discussions centered on China and totalitarianism. For fans of comic books and pop culture franchises, Crossland repeatedly highlighted Jim Starlin's The Infinity Gauntlet, describing the original comic book series as one of the greatest ever written and discussing its role in modern media. Additionally, he mentioned childhood memories of reading Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and discussed works related to sex education and historical figures when prompted by co-hosts and comments on the show.
Books recommended by Ian Crossland
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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“So, I'm real concerned is because in in the rules for radicals, when you read about a radical attempt at a communist takeover, you want to get your enemy to to do the mistake.”
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The infinity gauntlet
The Infinity Gauntlet by Jim Starlin is a classic Marvel comic book miniseries that details the cosmic struggle against Thanos as he attempts to reshape reality using the power of the Infinity Stones.
Recommended“This is The Infinity Gauntlet episode number one or issue number one this is one of the greatest Comics ever written”
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins is an exposé detailing how covert economic strategies, loans, and international financial institutions are used by powerful nations and corporate elites to manipulate and exploit developing countries.
Discussed“this is basically the confessions of the economic Hitman are you familiar with that book uh no actually I'm not”
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Ishmael
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is a philosophical novel that uses a telepathic gorilla to explore human civilization, environmental impact, and the societal divide between givers and takers.
Discussed“that sounds a lot like ishmail that book that Alex Jones quotes about the gorilla who psychic gorilla is like I'm a gorilla”
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The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient military treatise offering timeless strategic principles on leadership, outmaneuvering adversaries, and conflict resolution.
Discussed“I'm playing the the global play the the art of war. I really take the art of war seriously.”
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Fallout
Fallout by Ellen Hopkins is a young adult novel written in verse that explores themes of family dysfunction, drug addiction, and the struggles of adolescence.
Discussed“We were talking about Fallout the other day. The one thing I'll criticize the Fallout franchise on is what is meant to be this profound statement”
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The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a foundational 1776 text by the Scottish thinker often regarded as the father of modern economics, exploring free markets, capitalism, and the mechanics of national wealth.
Discussed“and then later an Rand we understood that capitalism was the way reality needs to work because all the incentives run in the right direction”
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Always with Honor
Pyotr Wrangel's memoir Always with Honor offers a historical account written by the White Army leader who fought against the communists during the Russian Civil War.
Recommended“go read Always With Honor by pyoto Rangel the best book on this subject whatsoever”
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Bibliography [of Works By] John Money, Ph. D. and Members the Psychohormonal Research Unit, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pediatrics, The John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bibliography [of Works By] John Money, Ph.
Recommended“Ian you have so much more to unfold with Kinsey and look into John money they're Heroes to them and out sex ed is uh and our sex that is based off of it yeah John money's crazy yeah you're gonna love that yeah for real I worked with a guy named John money in La it's so funny really”
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Fury: Stallion of Broken Wheel Ranch
Fury: Stallion of Broken Wheel Ranch by Albert G.
Recommended“God knows you ever see the movie Fury. That's for everyone out there watching and you're into tanks go watch Fury. The craziest tank movie. Yeah, it's a really good movie. Dude, those you'll get a better idea of what you're talking about.”
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo and Kuan-chung Lo is a monumental historical novel written in the fourteenth century detailing the turbulent political struggles and wars of the Three Kingdoms period in ancient China.
Recommended“I read um the the Romance of the Three Kingdoms have you guys ever read this book it's it's worth the read”
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The Book of Five Rings
The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi is a classic treatise on strategy, tactics, and philosophy written by a legendary seventeenth-century Japanese swordsman.
Recommended“The issue is there's a there's a book called The Book of five rings by um Miyamoto Musashi yes one of my favorite books excellent book on sword fighting by the greatest sword swordsman in Japan real person it's actually mistranslated it's supposed to be the book of five Scrolls”
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 depicts a totalitarian society characterized by perpetual war, government surveillance, and the complete eradication of individual truth and freedom.
Discussed“if you read 1984 the whole book is all your your country is at war overseas with an unknown unnamed opponent”
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A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle's beloved children's science fantasy classic, A Wrinkle in Time, follows young Meg Murry as she journeys across space and time using a tesseract to rescue her scientist father from a malevolent cosmic entity.
Discussed“did you ever read a wrinkle in time I love that book it's my favorite the youngest 20 something the youngest brother goes and interfaces with the brain and then becomes part of the brain and it's like man he's just is the brain now it's completely taken over him”
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Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon is a science fiction novel by Richard Morgan that explores a futuristic world where human consciousness can be digitized and transferred between different physical bodies, or sleeves.
Discussed“Altered Carbon. Was that the name of the show? Yeah. Where you can download your brain into like a chip in your neck and then take it out and upload it to a different body.”
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An Analysis of the Kinsey Reports on Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male and Female. Edited by D.P. Geddes. [Essays by Various Authors.].
Discussed“I just learned about this Kinsey guy this uh learned about a little while ago this sex doctor from the 1930s 40s 50s and Hugh Hefner was his student yeah and they were overtly attempting to sexualize college kids like they would go to college campus we are going to sexualize society So I guess we're still seeing this yeah”
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Attack on Titan
Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan is a sweeping dark fantasy manga and anime series chronicling humanity's desperate fight for survival inside walled cities against gigantic humanoid creatures known as Titans.
Discussed“Haven't you guys seen Attack on Titan? No. We're We're We're We're basically Attack on Titan. Really?”
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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“it's called Aaron Trump's marvelous underground Journey”
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Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead by Foy Scalf is an academic exploration of ancient Egyptian funerary texts and religious beliefs surrounding the afterlife, the underworld, and the journey of the soul.
Discussed“but then in ancient Egypt they talked about the underworld under the pyramids where Souls would go I think it's am Amoth or something in the the book of uh gosh the is it the Book of the Dead yeah they talk about it”
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Capital
Capital by Karl Marx is a foundational critique of political economy that examines the mechanics of capitalist production, commodity fetishism, and the systemic exploitation of labor.
Discussed“I was reading a book by Marx and he explains Capital”
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The other 26 books Ian Crossland recommended or discussed, ranked
- Civilization by Niall Ferguson
- Covid-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab
- Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
- Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
- Gorilla Mindset by Mike Cernovich
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
- Occupy by Noam Chomsky
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- Pearl Jam - Ten by Pearl Jam
- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
- Rage by Bob Woodward
- Saving Private Ryan by Unknown
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
- The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
- The Fellowship of the Ring by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christina Scull
- The fourth turning by William Strauss
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Mars Project by Wernher Von Braun
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Wag the Dog by Larry Beinhart
- What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
- Where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak
Books Ian Crossland wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (36: passing, ad reads, own books), the 30 most recent
“I think liberals just in a second plug themselves in more so so they can be Harry Potter, but I think there are a lot of moderate to conservative types that won't go into the Matrix permanently the way we we think you know, many liberals would.”
“I don't know the extent of this power. I saw X-Men and I really liked that storm chick and now I can do that.”
“Silence of the Lambs over here with gay dudes telling me how hot I was. And uh my girlfriend at the time thought I was cute.”
“A girl played a guy in in uh 12th Night that I did.”
“And then we just show the book this is why you guus deserve less.”
“I'm going to quote a really old movie, Demolition Man with like Wesley Wesley Snipes and Stallone.”
“Yeah, he's talking about minority report. Precognition. Yeah, minority report.”
“Well, the future is the ring and not the not the horror film”
“It was Voyager that I was born to, not Deep Space Deep Space Nine, so.”
“What we do is we black the commies and then we put their admissions of their loyalty to Trump out like like Winston from 1984 except it's just their AI representation, right?”
“Rocky five in their brain or Rocky four in their brain for like hours and hours until they're until they're”
“G Gordon Levit. I'm thinking of of G Edward Griffin who wrote the creature from Jackal Island. What's up G ever?”
“I don't know how these people break out of it; that's why I'm so excited about the RFK Jr. thing though, because that is a sledgehammer to the 1984 TV screen of Big Brother.”
“pretty much since the soft coup of the Federal Reserve and these Jackal hide jackal jackal Island dudes you know JP Morgan and friends that it's like accept it”
“I'm sure I wouldn't be surprised if the same guys that built the Federal Reserve that tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 with the business plot that that made the Bankers Trust in 1903 like these Bankers JP Morgan Rockefeller Paul warberg”
“then the women are going to be playing 50 Shades of Gray”
“I was thinking about this recently this's a classic reference what do you mean you don't get it like bardus it's a Harry Potter man”
“I'll probably ask you what's the name of the book The January 6th book you did January 6th how Democrats used the capital protest to launch a war on terror against the political right”
“that's still from Game of Thrones yeah that that way it sounds cool”
“and if you haven't got a copy of my book yet writing in the dark it's really not it's very weird it was just like you wrote it in the dark literally in my car when I was homeless in New York at a very dark period of my life so there's metaphor there you know if you haven't ever”
“pick up my book writing in the dark if you don't have a copy yet you can get on Amazon and other places where books are sold”
“salts and eatsin talked about people being charged for arbitrary Evil under article 58 always for anti-soviet agitation man that's that's the guy who did the Goulet archipelago”
“I think you know the mistake that Jared Kushner made when he said that he was you know going to live forever be the last to die is that if there's one thing you want to avoid when you're hated by Millennial leftists is Harry Potter references and you know Voldemort was like only I can live forever”
“and then I think the sequel was called a wind in the door or something like that yeah wind at the door they made us they made a movie and then nobody wanted to see it yeah I I showed it to my nieces but I couldn't get into it it had Oprah in it”
“there's a word for a woman who sleeps with a man who's married uh I I don't know if I'm allowed to say that”
“he's got sapiens all of those people could be engineers and scientists and researchers and writers and singers and artists”
“she just released a book i don't necessarily agree with what's in the world the books so she's got a book up for all”
“aren't there 81 federal newspapers”
“also this is a book that i wrote i talked about it last night it's called writing in the dark it was like a kind of a diary when i was co-founding minds”
“also i got a book that i i wrote about i don't know 10 years ago or so now when we were starting minds uh i was one of the co-founders and i used to live i was living on the street for a while and i documented it and man it is a wild ride through my mind so”