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“But I do think that it's really important for me and I would encourage others to engage with some of these stories and some of the realities of what's around us; this book that we've talked about before called 'Evicted' that goes through this psychological and social and emotional impact of growing up in a really financially limited setting where”

“I mean I tried reading like a John Grisham novel or like a Jack Reacher, yeah, that are just pure beach reads. But I couldn't even go there.”

“I mean I tried reading like a John Grisham novel or like a Jack Reacher, yeah, that are just pure beach reads. But I couldn't even go there.”

“There’s a Sam Harris book called 'Lying' I really love; he's done a show on this subject.”

“One of my favorite books is called "The Storm Before the Storm," and the idea is that we just see Caesar crossing the Rubicon one day as if it just popped into his head, as if there wasn't all this history and all these other events leading up to this major event.”

“By the way, have you ever read Gore Vidal's book on Aaron Burr? No, that's another great book.”

“There's a wonderful book that I recommend to you that you'll thank me a million times for; it's called "The Swerve." Have you ever heard of it?”

“All right, let's talk because you mentioned Shakespeare. Greenblatt wrote this amazing book called "Will in the World" that I found incredible.”

“He has a book called "Tyrant" as well, which I loved, but I was thinking there's a common theme between this movie and Apocalypse Now, as well as the theme of Shakespeare: the ability to find old stories and place them in a new context while preserving the arcs, characters, and morals.”

“For example, one time I chose a great Chinese book called "The Story of the Stone" or "Dream of the Red Mansion" written in the 16th century. I found myself trying to change Megalopolis to be more like that, which I actually did, because that was one of the few books I ever read where the dream life of the”

“He wrote a book called "Wilhelm Meister" and that was him stealing from Shakespeare. That is Goethe saying, "I want to be as much like Shakespeare as I can be," while Shakespeare was stealing from Plutarch, from Montaigne, from Danish legends, and from other plays—everyone has been stealing from one another.”

“I was just reading a book called "Papyrus," which covers the history of paper and early writings. One of the things the author notes is that scrolls, because they weren't books, were stored in specific boxes that often held seven scrolls.”

“Have you ever read that beautiful Persian book called the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi? No, that's like Gilgamesh! It's an early Persian epic, and it's great—a tale of kings!”

“That it wasn't successful at first, so he and his editor straightened out something, I guess, I don't know which version I have. But I think what's unusual is that in the original 'Tender Is the Night,' there's a huge flashback in the middle of it that goes back and tells the story of Nicole and Dick Diver.”

“Sure, he wrote a book, a novel called 'Antkind,' a seven- or eight-hundred-page book called 'Antkind.' And that's what Google said: if you want to read something about being a... so I got it, and damned, if you know, as I said, everything I read changes my movie, but this book is changing my life because it's so, I finished”

“Well, the schoolboys in the founding of our nation were reading Caesar and the Gallic Wars. They knew it all by heart.”

“And maybe a period where it's an apparent disaster, but over time, you know, I once read an article that James Joyce was talking about 'Finnegans Wake.' And he said, 'I'm going to put so much interesting stuff in this that it's going to take, you know, uh, 50 years for people to figure out what's in it and it'll”

“Did you read the Ben Smith book?”

“I was reading a lot of memoirs in the past couple of years when I was thinking about writing one.”

“I have David Foster Wallace's string theory and the book that I have as its companion is the dictionary because his vocabulary was far far greater than mine will ever be”

“There was a military strategist, a guy named Edward Luttwak, who wrote this book, "The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire," which was basically about frontiers and how the Romans defined their frontier. And everybody's jumped on this and argued about it, and says it's wrong and all, but it started this debate among Roman historians about, yeah, what does”

“So that's how much scientific work he's done; it's a lot—and several books, including 'The New Science of Narcissism' and 'Professor OCEAN from The Big Five: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism'.”

“And you know, I really want to read the Book of Enoch, but maybe I’ll just scroll through (X) and see what’s going on.”

“I liked it so much I told Dean after the first season I didn't want to wait til the second season. So I got the book and I ended up reading all five.”

“And another example historically speaking is of course Moses from the Bible, from the book of Exodus, who was found as a babe in the rushes or whatever and adopted by a powerful family and then ultimately became a pretty important political figure. Let's just say love it!”

“This is where we want to introduce our first book, the one that people would consider conspiratorial. Doug Ledger wrote a book called Maritime UFO Files, and in this book he claims that additional witnesses exist.”

“Several weeks after the initial sighting, he co-wrote a book called Dark Object: The World's Only Government Documented UFO Crash. In this book, Styles and his co-author Doug Ledger from earlier, oh, the what was that book called, the Maritime UFO Files?”

“He wrote a book in 1961 called On Thermonuclear War, and then went on to form the Hudson Institute, where he basically was like, we are a group that is going to forecast the future.”

“The one that I ran across in this article that I had heard of but didn't know anything about is Alvin Toffler's Future Shock. I remember that; I think, did you read it?”

“But back in I think the 1910s, writing, yeah, he wrote a book called Ralph 124C 41+ which predicted everything in this!”

“I've written a couple of books, including 'No-Go Zones,' which is about migrant-dominated neighborhoods, specifically Muslim migrant-dominated neighborhoods in Europe.”

“Specifically, I was reading about Back on Track in her 'Smart on Crime' book, and I was so impressed with it that I was running for State's Attorney at the time.”

“Okay, he's claimed by the gay community in some books I've read. Right, but he never procreated.”

“I didn't know about the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary, but the Random House was nice and big! Found the biggest word!”

“Thank you for joining me for today's discussion with Dr. Mark Brackett, to learn more about his work and to find links to his book, Permission to Feel, which by the way, I highly recommend, as well as other links to his laboratory and other resources please see the links in the show note captions.”

“For those of you that haven’t heard, I have a new book coming out; it’s my very first book, it’s entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.”

“I think like one of the more recent ones that I probably will read but I haven't read is Arthur Brooks' recent book—it’s a living your best life or something like that co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. I had read Strength to Strength before that, right?”

“I think back to Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point' and how he discussed a certain type of clothing, though I'm struggling to recall the exact item.”

“I would hear from many individuals on their healing journey after writing my first book, how to do the work. I'm starting to feel good in my life, and now I feel either ready to be in a relationship or I am in a relationship, but it's in my relationship where I'm really stuck.”