Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W01

“What are some of the most impactful books that you've read that you think listeners should read The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin If you also haven't read Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas which is a short story Read that”

“And oh my God Oh we both read this book Who's the H I'm forgetting the author's name Cultish by I want to say Amanda Montel Amanda Montel Cultish was quite good”

“And you know why are there so many questions People here's here's one I haven't brought up in terms of books Read The Water Knife by Pooja Bhatia I'm I'm saying his name wrong I know But The Water Knife is just excellent Excellent book”

“And not too long after that, or around that time in India, the world's oldest astronomy book, the Surya Siddhanta, obviously the whoever wrote it was like, I'm going to try to guess the diameter of Saturn, and I don't think they guessed at it like, you know, how many jelly beans are in this jar kind of guess, like”

“For some reason, I thought I read the book, but I don't think I did.”

“Uh, and then one guy—and this is from a 1978 New York Times piece—said, 'The doorman told me to go home and read Freud's essay on rejection.' Wow, wow, that's pretty great!”

“So here's something that Stapel wrote later when he wrote a book of confession, essentially about his fraud: 'I was doing fine, but then I became impatient, over-ambitious, reckless.'”

“Well, Crystal, the saga of 'It Ends With Us,' starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, has officially crossed the threshold from a story of celebrity intrigue to one of greater import.”

“And it's all in that book; everything we're seeing happening right now isn't that how you started just reading the Bible?”

“They said, okay, let's liberate them now! What scientific data was it yielding supposedly? Yeah, it's this book I read called The Nazi Symbiosis. They talked all about it.”

“but I think that was all due to the times, and I, yeah, my people kind of democ... you really should read the Immortality Key, have you read that? No, it's Brian Murescu, he's a scholar who was studying the use of psychedelic drugs in ancient Greece, where the Eleusinian Mysteries, where everybody would go to learn about democracy, and”

“Yeah, that's just at least the image I get. Eric Von Däniken! Love to drop that name.”

“You have a book called 'Imminent,' which I'm getting. It's Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, it's called 'Imminent', and I haven't read it, but I want to; I can't wait to read it. And you wrote it.”