Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W35

“But some of the guys are now calling it like a treat; we're trying to add some little extra things into it; like we're reading a particular book by Ryan Holiday on Stoicism about Stillness, and we're all kind of making it like a pseudo-book club.”

“Yeah, like I definitely remember the book Helter Skelter being a huge, huge thing. Um, and I remember a time before like media was so robust when the idea of Charles Manson was just so terrifying to me.”

“He actually wrote a book in 1909 called Marathon Running, where he said, ‘Don't get into the habit of drinking and eating in a marathon! Some prominent runners do, but it is not beneficial!’”

“I'm reading an Isaac Asimov book from 1950 right now. I know this is obvious for fans of science fiction, but I'm always blown away by how close they get it in the 50s, like what modern civilization looks like and what technology of the future actually looks like.”

“Publishes a paperback that I loved when it came out—the Chariots of the Gods?—question mark, a little bit of hedging there. He publishes this first in 1969; it becomes an international bestseller, and a deluge of similar books hit the market right after.”

“We’ve made this a two-part episode; let’s get into it; what does he say in his book—the message of the engraved stones of Ica? Let’s take these one at a time; the first one is that the stones themselves are way older than you think.”

“It kind of reminds me of that hoax book that ultimately wasn't really a hoax at all people just kind of made much to do about it, uh, the Codex Seraphinus!”

“They believed in Thomas Kinkade, not just in the man or the company, but in the ethos supposedly represented by his art, one in which, to quote Kinkade's introduction to 'Cape Light,' people have the time to savor life, simple pleasures, and lead deep, satisfying lives.”

“Now you can compare this to his old friend whose Dinotopia books were labors of love; whatever else you might say about them, you could tell it was clearly the work of someone who cares deeply about telling a dinosaur story.”

“In Cold Blood came out when, you know like, yeah, it's definitely, it hearkens to that whole like the rose-tinted glass view that I'm beginning to see Gen Xers start also throwing out there like, oh back when we drank out of the water hose and our parents played the sunset and like, yeah that wasn't great.”

“Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals; that’s like what the— is that like an Antifa origin of a Marxist codebook?”

“Yeah, I mean, it's part of Edith Wharton's art too, but like nobody wants to actually live in the House of Mirth.”

“But at the same time I read things like I was reading Harry Potter and, you know, the Order of the Phoenix.”

“But don't forget, Barack Obama bragged about eating a dog in his memoir that got the guy elected president. So, I don't know, maybe just smart political strategy.”

“He's in the dog bed with them, he's reading the books: 'Love a goat, I love you guys, I would never eat a dog, was fake news, was fake news, St. Francis with a wolf of Goia, this is one of their favorite books, it really calms him down.'”

“But there's a reason Peter AA did so well in his book; there's a reason guys like Mark Sisson, who's been calling attention to this, he's been on the show too, have been jumping up and down about this stuff because Americans know.”

“and so you know when you think of some of the very culturally important documents here you know you think about CH sandberg's lean in or you think about Amry Slaughter Big Atlantic article from a couple years ago on whether or not women can have it all”

“the second book I'd recommend which really gets at both the educational and labor market stuff but actually more from looking at women I think you learn about men is Claudia Golden's book uh career and family which as I said I think golden is just absolutely the best in the business when it comes to looking at gender and”

“and the third book I got a huge amount out of was a book by Anna mein who's a anthropologist I think May evolutionary Anthropologist at the University of Oxford and her book maybe you'll know it actually as it's called the life of dad the making of a modern father as few years old now”