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Josh Clark's book recommendations
Books Josh Clark recommends
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Crooked House
Recommended“Um, have you seen the Agatha Christie film adaptation of Crooked House that came out in 2017?”
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Discussed“So, the title, if you're wondering where that came from, um it was uh from Alibaba and the 40 Thieves, Open Sesame.”
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Alibaba
Discussed“So, the title, if you're wondering where that came from, um it was uh from Alibaba and the 40 Thieves, Open Sesame.”
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And Then There Were None
Discussed“Um and one book in particular uh and Then There Were None was revised many many times not just in the US but in Great Britain as well.”
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Curtain
Discussed“Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder.”
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Death on the Nile
Discussed“Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written uh during this period...”
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Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti
Discussed“there's a there was someone named um Shiva Dal that collected a bunch of these stories in a book called Folktales of Sherpa and Yeti and all of them kind of figured the same way”
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Hotel
Discussed“Sometimes there were cameos and what they were following airport was based on a novel by Arthur Haley and he had written hotel. He one of his things was a ton of different characters whose lives kind of intersect in this issue or this problem or this disaster.”
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
Discussed“She published a memoir in 2022 titled, "I'm glad my mother's dead," and there's not some ironic twist to that title, like it's exactly what you think, or it sounds like she was glad her mother's dead, in part because her mother pushed her into acting and basically set her up to be exposed to the stuff she was exposed”
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Murder On The Orient Express
Discussed“Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written uh during this period...”
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My Quest for the Yeti
Discussed“And Messner even wrote a book called My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas's Deepest Mystery, right? But I mean, well, we'll we'll we'll save the big reveal till the end, right?”
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Richard III
Discussed“Um, so Richard III is the you may his name may ring a bell if you're not already familiar with him because there's a very very famous play by Shakespeare called the tragedy of Richard III.”
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Richard III
Discussed“uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested”
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Sleeping Murder
Discussed“Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder. Um that is Marple's final case.”
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The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is a gripping techno-thriller that follows a team of top-flight scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism brought back to Earth by a fallen satellite.
Discussed“with all manner of disaster movies from things like the Andromeda Strain in 1971 you know a Michael Kiteon novel.”
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The Daughter of Time
Discussed“Uh so that went mainstream in the 1950s because of a book. Uh it was a very popular detective novel called A Daughter of Time in which they reimagine the disappearance of the two princes as a modern murder mystery where Scotland Yard gets involved and Scott Lanyard says Henry VIIIth was the guy who murdered these two boys.”
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The Golden Bough
Discussed“He was an anthropologist who wrote a book, very influential book in 1890 called The Golden Bow.”
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The Iliad
Discussed“They attribute both the Odyssey and the Iliad, which is kind of the prequel to the Odyssey, to Homer.”
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The Last Kids on Earth
Discussed“The the last kids on earth or something like that. Oh, that sounds good. That may not be the title, but that's sort of the premise. Is she she might be too old for this, but maybe not. Um, has she ever read any of the scary stories to tell in the dark books? Uh, I don't think. And it”
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The Monster at the End of This Book
Discussed“the monster at the end of this book is a classic children's book with Grover as as the center character.”
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The Murder at the Vicarage
Discussed“So this is when Miss Marple comes along as as a a detective in 1930 with The Murder at the Vicorage. That was her first one.”
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Discussed“I started reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which I think was her first published work um last night, and it's just great.”
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The Odyssey
Discussed“They attribute both the Odyssey and the Iliad, which is kind of the prequel to the Odyssey, to Homer.”
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classic 1850 American novel exploring guilt, sin, and societal judgment in Puritan New England, centering on the character Hester Prynne.
Discussed“like if you went to read a book in high school in the 80s like the Scarlet Letter and you're like, 'Oh god, do I really have to read the Scarlet Letter?' You would go to a store and you would buy this uh yellow and black uh very thin pamphlet.”
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Ulysses
Discussed“1922, the novel Ulysses by James Joyce was a big one because Ulysses is the Latin version of Odysseus.”
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Appearances
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Anytime he and his uh, people were in Memphis, they stayed at the Lorraine Hotel. Um, because it was a blackowned business and had been owned by Walter Bailey and his wife Lorie since the 1940s. Uh, it was listed in the Green Book even.”