Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W39

“And by the way, these are categories that she writes about in her recent book. The title of that book is Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents and What They Mean for America's Future.”

“I don't know Howard Schultz; actually I would love to know Howard Schultz, but I did read his memoir. I think it's called something like 'A Cup at a Time' or something like that.”

“Right, and you know, Michelle Obama in her book, 'The Light We Carry,' talks a lot about being an only and being a first. And when you're an only, you carry this massive additional burden because you are sort of the person laying the groundwork and setting the stage for what this is like.”

“I had just read a book by Stanislav Grof, the world’s leading LSD researcher at Hopkins, whose research was being shut down after the backlash against the psychedelic 60s. His book was about the therapeutic use of LSD, called Realms of the Human Unconscious: Observations from LSD Research.”

“like one of the weird things is the Dead Sea Scrolls which is the oldest versions of some of the stories in the Bible and they're different they're in Aramaic and it's like well should we all just read that now you know”

“and it why are we going on the New Testament instead of the Old Testament is the Old Testament the real thing like that doesn't make sense”

“Wild Wild Country was so good books he's got a lot of good books”

“This is like when somebody reads something from the Unabomber manifesto and it's like it was the Unabomber. Now, how do you feel?”

“No, every time I saw her, she basically threatened to die before the book came out, knowing that that would make me feel awful because if she's like, 'All I want is for this book to be done' and she was like, 'I just want to hold this book.'”

“Or the various factors that work in destroying our country according to your book.”

“One that I'm really enjoying is written by James Clear, called Atomic Habits! It's just basically, you know, it's not just another self-help book, it's something that like you can actually put these things into motion!”