Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W13

“But one of my favorite books is called The Art of Learning by one of the greatest chess masters ever: oh, Josh Waitzkin! Yes!”

“I believe the introduction to the 'Three-Body Problem' should be required viewing in schools; kids should definitely watch it.”

“At the same time, I read Christopher Rufo's book where he discusses the genealogy of wokeism and ideology.”

“He's selling Bibles, he's selling sneakers, he's selling NFTs, he's doing all these things; it's all part of the narrative you just laid out, which is he's in it for himself, not for any of you guys.”

“Um, like, if you want the Book of Mormon, they’ll just come to your house and give you one.”

“And the question you face is, do you call the man a cheater, or do you keep his ball in your pocket? Rick Reilly from Sports Illustrated, it's a classic, wrote a whole book about Trump cheating at golf!”

“Um, I picked this book because that's sometimes when I'm after a novel and it's been a while, I will go to the Pulitzer list and that's exactly what I did. And I'm reading Less by Andrew Sean Greer, which won in 2018, and it is so funny and great!”

“He won, which was yours, 1491! And then the follow-up was 1493! He won a big award for that, but not the Pulitzer!”

“Alex Haley was another recipient in 1977 for his book Roots, which, surprisingly, had a colon in its full title: Roots: The Saga of an American Family. I think I may have seen it before on the cover, but they never really emphasized the colon, making it seem implied.”

“I think the sad thing is that apparently it's sort of like a million little pieces book that that guy wrote. I read that book, and it was great with a capital G! In my mind, I always thought, 'Dude, why didn’t you just call it a novel?'”

“But because there was a respected naturalist, Bruce Wright, writing about this, it was picked up by another scientist, a conservationist named Roger Caras, who wrote a book a couple of years later called Dangerous to Man.”

“Hello everybody, I'm talking today with journalist and author Michael Shellenberger, who wrote "Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All" and has a new book coming out next year called "Pathocracy."”

“And by the way, the other psychologist is Michael Bailey, and he wrote a book on it. I can't—it’s something—I think it was something like The Man Who Would Be Queen.”

“It's an old phenomenon; there's a wonderful book called "The Fourth Leading Cause of Death"u2014the fourth leading cause of deathu2014and that was before the vaccine compulsion.”

“You know, it's if you believe—if you read Political Ponerology, this really interesting book on the psychology of totalitarianism, he argues that totalitarianism is defined by the narcissists and the psychopaths taking over every major institution in society and emerging from the bottom up.”

“So if memory serves, that was The City on the Edge of Forever, which was a famous story by Harlan Ellison, a famous science fiction writer.”

“In the book, you describe validating the criminal or validating the target's model of the world. What does that mean exactly?”

“Do you guys know Yosi or her cookbooks? She has this book called Snacking Cakes.”

“You know Prince Harry's book, 'Spare'? Well, in a Lebanese family, the oldest son is golden, and the second son is irrelevant.”

“Well, that's totally in the book on how to do that. You do not solve all of your children's problems—that's the heart of love and logic.”

“There's a book I love called 'Thrilled to Death.' It continually presses on your nucleus accumbens, which produces dopamine, continuously pressing on the pleasure centers in your brain.”