Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W32

“There's a story called The Secret History of the Mongols, and it was written in about 1240, so shortly after Genghis Khan's death! We don't know who the author was, but that's the primary source for most of the biography of Genghis Khan.”

“to Kierkegaard, and I think he even calls out Kierkegaard in the section of Being and Nothingness.”

“But there was already back in the 1860s a book by a guy named Stanley Jevons, called 'The Coal Question,' and this guy was already warning about Peak Coal, essentially pointing out like coal is a non-renewable resource, everybody, and we are using it really, really fast. This guy was already ringing the alarm about it, and Rudolf Diesel was”

“Uh, if you want to know more about diesel and his engine, then just go read, uh, Douglas Brunt's book on it. And since I mentioned Douglas Brunt for one last time, it's time for listener mail. Uh, I'm going to call this Harvard follow-up with the old Puritans episode.”

“Before anybody started calling him an anti-vaxxer, which I thought he was, I thought he was this nut; this like conspiracy theorist nut until I read his book, I read 'The Real Anthony Fauci.' And I'm like, how much of this is real?”

“Also, love the show and thank you for all you and your people do! Read my dumb zombie book, Arctic Cold, please!”

“And then this book right here, Worm Loves Worm, this book is about teaching kids about same-sex marriage.”

“Two years ago, Kirk wrote a book entitled As You Grow and he wanted to go to the libraries that were bringing in transgenders to read to kids, and you know what he was told?”

“But they fundamentally believe the way that Marx explained the world: there's oppressors, there are oppressed, and their job, their duty, is to stick up for the oppressed.”

“Later, our pal Brian Tyler Cohen is here to talk about his brand new book and play a round of Take Appreciators with me and Lovett. But first, remember Donald Trump?”

“JD studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires and then wrote a bestseller trashing that community. Come on!”

“We're told, we're commanded multiple times, if you read Proverbs, you read what King David wrote—discernment was everything!”

“I really feel, you know, I read a book last year called Wake Up, and at the start of it, I told the story of several thousand years ago—people existed in tribes, and they all had the same haircuts, the same clothes, or whatever, you know—loincloths they were wearing.”

“and the only thing I I knew about them was that book that I read I can't remember if I brought this up Thursday I read that book among the thugs where they was an old uh American Journal journalist”

“There's something about his early stuff when he was off the rails—like he said, he doesn't even remember writing Cujo, which is my favorite book of his.”

“High fantasy? What does that mean? Lord of the Rings type stuff? That sounds fun!”

“Look, people love those kinds of fantasy-type books, and I mean, think about The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones; people love it!”

“It's not going to get you through the Great Depression. Yeah, no, it's not.”

“Now, David wrote a book back in 2012 called Patriots of Treason. And the plot of this book, this is not the book we're covering this week, but you need to hear about it to get to that book.”

“And that movie was about the book, The Dirt book. They said it was pretty true to form, a lot of it.”

“The word quark comes from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake!”

“always our final question what are three books you'd recommend to the audience Walk ride paddle is Tim kan's book about when he walked the Appalachian Trail paddled the James River and then did some other bike ride across it's a very yeah it's a very fun book and he's just such a lovely man and he's such a it's”

“I'm I'm just finishing up a book by Heather Cox Richardson called Wounded Knee and it's about Sue and other tribes in the dtas Senator Brian Shotz thank you very much”

“She is also considered one of the foremost experts in the personal development field, having authored many best-selling books, including her upcoming book, 'Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose.'”

“Yeah, I know, and I call it what I—in the book that I just wrote called Beyond Anxiety.”

“By the way, have you read Annie Jacobson’s book, Nuclear War? You need to or at least have her on.”