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Every book Roger Avary recommended on podcasts
Roger Avary appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to converse about filmmaking, screenwriting formulas, alternative historical timelines, and various cultural oddities. Throughout the discussion, Avary referenced several books that touched upon his varied intellectual curiosities and professional background. He enthusiastically recommended the novel Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, praising it as an amazing narrative that matched the quality of its film adaptation. When discussing the mechanics of Hollywood storytelling, Avary mentioned Syd Field's influential screenwriting manual Screenplay to illustrate how structural formulas came to dominate studio filmmaking. Venturing into historical and mathematical curiosities, he brought up Anatoly Fomenko's controversial work The New Chronology regarding altered historical timelines, Isaac Asimov's Asimov on Numbers to explore cultural concepts of mathematics, and a fringe flat-earth text by William Carpenter. Through these references, Avary highlighted a vast intellectual appetite spanning professional filmmaking technique, fringe historical theories, and unconventional literature.
Books recommended by Roger Avary
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Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist is a chilling vampire horror novel that explores dark themes of bullying, loneliness, and survival in a snowy Stockholm suburb.
Recommended“And the book is fabulous as well. It's a an amazing novel.”
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Asimov on Numbers
Discussed“Isaac Azimoff wrote a book called Is Azimoff on numbers which is fantastic which talks about this and he talks about Kalahari Bushmen who have no concept of the number zero”
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One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
Discussed“Do you know who this guy is? Oh, he's a flat earth guy. Yeah, he's the flat earth guy and he's written a book called Aundred Proofs.”
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Screenplay
Discussed“I mean there was this book by Sid Field which was a screenwriting book um that you know at one hand it gave a kind of formula on what a movie should be.”
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The Issue With Chronology
Discussed“Well, um there's this guy Anatoli Fenco who's a Russian mathematician and historian and he wrote a book called The New Chronology.”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| #2452 - Roger Avary | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2026-02-11 | 5 |