The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► the incomparable pod test number 99 july [TS]

00:00:10 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to be [TS]

00:00:12 ◼   ► uncomfortable podcast I'm your host [TS]

00:00:13 ◼   ► Jason snail and I am joined by a [TS]

00:00:15 ◼   ► fantastic panel today to create [TS]

00:00:17 ◼   ► something we're going to call the [TS]

00:00:19 ◼   ► incomparable summer reading list are you [TS]

00:00:21 ◼   ► somebody who lives in within hemisphere [TS]

00:00:23 ◼   ► if not we apologize but we all are so [TS]

00:00:26 ◼   ► we're going to say that it's summer and [TS]

00:00:28 ◼   ► we're going to come up with some [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► suggestions for books mostly sci-fi [TS]

00:00:32 ◼   ► novels but we may cheat a little bit [TS]

00:00:34 ◼   ► just things we like books we like we're [TS]

00:00:37 ◼   ► not going to go heavy into the spoilers [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► i think books we like that we think you [TS]

00:00:41 ◼   ► should read and at the end of this there [TS]

00:00:43 ◼   ► will be a wonderful list that will be [TS]

00:00:44 ◼   ► posted at five by five TV / incomparable [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► / 99 and it will be books that we at [TS]

00:00:52 ◼   ► least some of us endorse and think that [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► you should read if you haven't read them [TS]

00:00:56 ◼   ► yet it's that simple [TS]

00:00:57 ◼   ► and if you're saying to yourself this [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► sounds Jason a little bit like you're [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► doing a book draft but not calling it [TS]

00:01:02 ◼   ► that you are very clever person and also [TS]

00:01:05 ◼   ► very handsome i must say anyway [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► joining me today to draft some books and [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► talk about books we love our Dan Morgan [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► hi dan I Jason I'm glad to be [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► participating in this experiment in [TS]

00:01:18 ◼   ► literacy that's good we will let you [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► know the results one more time [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► Scott McNulty is also here of course [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► because he is the most well-read amongst [TS]

00:01:27 ◼   ► hi Scott [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► hello I'm also joined by serenity [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► Caldwell hi thanks for being here [TS]

00:01:33 ◼   ► yeah I'm happy to be here Jason I didn't [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► think I would be able to but I managed [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► to scrounge up some books [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► that's good just got in under the wire [TS]

00:01:39 ◼   ► and exactly and lex friedman is the [TS]

00:01:43 ◼   ► least read among us but no but he's here [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► anyway I'll I know I I don't think it's [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► fair to say the least read i will say [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► I'm the least qualified to appear on [TS]

00:01:51 ◼   ► this podcast I side up what it was just [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► a generic book draft but I still feel [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► confident that I can contribute [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► something at the very least the ability [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► to be mocked mercilessly [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► yes your confidence will be your undoing [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► you may you may be mocked for not being [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► key enough and that would make you [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► perhaps one of the first people to be [TS]

00:02:08 ◼   ► much so and also Glenn Fleischman is [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► here hi Glenn [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► hello [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► I have no German books on my list okay [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► and no Jermaine books that's also [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► correct I would be less good [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► alright so i am not going to be a cruel [TS]

00:02:23 ◼   ► taskmaster and force a draft order here [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► i'm going to just say the ground rules [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► are of course if somebody else picture [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► book you don't get to pick it but that's [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► okay we're all friends here you can just [TS]

00:02:32 ◼   ► you can file a concurring opinion so [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► yeah that's it that is a great book good [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► pic and when Glenn pics a book that [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► we've never heard of we can say okay [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► Glen so that's gonna be how this works [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► for now this challenge that's how it [TS]

00:02:44 ◼   ► always works [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► damn or and why don't you go first then [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► I'm gonna go first i'm gonna pick a and [TS]

00:02:48 ◼   ► this is a science fiction book so i [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► think i can check that box well done [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► thank you thank you I'm done I'm done [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► off to a good start a science-fiction [TS]

00:02:58 ◼   ► book okay that's good look at that's my [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► selection a science-fiction book so my [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► first book is a book called altered [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► carbon by a man named Richard K Morgan [TS]

00:03:08 ◼   ► which is a sci-fi book i think that's [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► about [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► I wanna say early to mid-2000s and what [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► I like about this book is that it's [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► basically a neo-noir mystery set in the [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► future in which people are variously [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► downloaded into bodies that they call [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► sleeves and that's sort of how they live [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► out their existence and the book centers [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► around one particular character whose [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► name I'm going to butcher which but i [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► think which is a to take a chico batch [TS]

00:03:38 ◼   ► who is especially trained sort of a [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► special ops guy he's an envoy i love [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► that this is the future because you can [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► tell it's the future and somewhat [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► implausible because the like highly [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► trained military convoys work for the [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► United Nations in the future which I [TS]

00:03:55 ◼   ► find entirely implausible but that's [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► probably the most impossible thing in [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► the book people gettin downloaded their [TS]

00:03:59 ◼   ► consciousness downloaded different [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► bodies you can't what about the United [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► Nation relevant for the move but anyways [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► he is sort of sucked into this mystery [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► investigation and it's it's a great book [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► it's really atmospheric reminded me in [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► some ways of all the stuff i like the [TS]

00:04:14 ◼   ► best from neuromancer which is sort of [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► that that future bizarre future that's [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► kind of like quite blade runner ask but [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► its its kind of alien but the same time [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► has these really recognize [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► elements and it is probably the only [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► book you will read in which one of the [TS]

00:04:31 ◼   ► main characters is a hotel one of them [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► one of them [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► yeah it's followed by a couple sequels I [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► didn't think either the sequel's were as [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► good as the first one they take a kind [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► of different tone and it I've read most [TS]

00:04:48 ◼   ► of this guy's books and it is altered [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► carbon is definitely my favorite and i [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► would go so far as to call it one of the [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► one of the best sci-fi books from the [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► last decade [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► wow ok altered carbon anybody else read [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► that one of her life i have read it [TS]

00:05:02 ◼   ► Scott you do you like it huh who knows i [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► read it was gonna happen [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► well you've even forgotten whether you [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► like it I don't like it i did buy the [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► sequel I haven't read the sequel that [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► that hurts stick with the stick with the [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► first moments the definitely the best [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► throw the sequel in the wood chipper [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► I will put it in the recycling bin okay [TS]

00:05:23 ◼   ► that's even better [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► Scott McNulty do you have a selection i [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► do so I was unclear as to the format of [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► tonight's show ok so was I and I came up [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► with it so both excellent so i decided [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► that i would just pick whatever the heck [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► I want that so now if you are very clear [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► on the format then excellent it wasn't [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► whatever and we'll call it something [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► else yes [TS]

00:05:44 ◼   ► so one of the first books that i read [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► that really set the course for my [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► science fiction reading life [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► isaac asimov's foundation trilogy which [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► I i know many people are conflicted [TS]

00:05:55 ◼   ► about isaac asimov because he was [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► probably not the best writer in the [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► world are he was quite prolific and he [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► did he was part of kind of the be the [TS]

00:06:06 ◼   ► golden age of science fiction writers [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► that with all the pulp writers were [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► around so you know he was a robber [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► highland and you know lots of other [TS]

00:06:15 ◼   ► people that whose names now escape me [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► were writing at the same time in the the [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► late fifties early sixties and so he [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► wrote this foundation trilogy which is [TS]

00:06:24 ◼   ► basically a sci-fi retelling of the fall [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► of the Roman Empire I and and he it's [TS]

00:06:32 ◼   ► just it really impacted me when I read [TS]

00:06:35 ◼   ► it the first time because of [TS]

00:06:38 ◼   ► it was the sweeping story of this this [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► giant Galactic Empire and this character [TS]

00:06:43 ◼   ► called Harry Sullivan who creates this [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► form of predicting the future called [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► psychohistory and he he goes to the [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► Emperor who is on this planet called [TS]

00:06:54 ◼   ► transit or that's a giant city planet [TS]

00:06:57 ◼   ► which may sound familiar to some star [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► wars fans who and so he tells the effort [TS]

00:07:02 ◼   ► you know therefore the Empire is going [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► to fall [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► I know what it's going to fall and it [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► will take 2,000 years for the Second [TS]

00:07:09 ◼   ► Empire to rise unless we do what I tell [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► you to do and then we'll take a thousand [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► years and so he sets up this foundation [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► to that basically preserves the human [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► knowledge and can help the galaxy [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► through the dark age but then also he [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► sets up a second foundation that is [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► really there to protect the humanity and [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► Isaac has enough uses a this kind of [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► this this this entries from this [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► encyclopedia Galactica to to kind of [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► tell you what's going on in the story [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► which a lot of other science-fiction [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► writers and pick up as a kind of trope [TS]

00:07:42 ◼   ► that they use so he set a lot of things [TS]

00:07:45 ◼   ► for the first time in this this series [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► that a lot of other people have used [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► over the last 50 years so it's a very [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► important piece of science fiction [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► it is also very much of its time so if [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► you're reading it and expecting a [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► science-fiction of like you know our our [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► day you're going to be disappointed it's [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► certainly reflects its time but i think [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► it is well worth a read and the three [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► books in the trilogy are altogether [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► shorter than a lot of the current novels [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► that are out now from the [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► science-fiction writers so it's well [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► worth a look [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► yeah he would I don't know about him [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► being bad right he's not a stylist right [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► hehe just his style is very basic or as [TS]

00:08:29 ◼   ► somebody in the chatroom just said karen [TS]

00:08:32 ◼   ► j healey his pro styles like an IBM 360 [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► operating manual that got drunk one [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► evening and decided to be a novel [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► instead and that's really not that far [TS]

00:08:40 ◼   ► off a very kind of workmen like pros but [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► some really fascinating ideas now I see [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► Glenn said that the first heat up the [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► first book and foundation was good [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► but the rest not so much is that using [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► see i disagree i think the first book [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► for me is one of the most dull but I [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► think foundation an empire which is the [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► second book really kicks it up a notch [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► and gets more interesting i guess the [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► third is pretty awful but i don't [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► remember the third I like someone the [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► later ones i felt like asthma style got [TS]

00:09:06 ◼   ► a little better so some of the ones that [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► go back and do the prequel yeah I found [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► much more like I was a prelude to [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► foundation and for the foundation i [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► found was much more accessible i don't [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► know if you could argue they're better [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► books but I like the first one best [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► because it was that its empire building [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► right it's like with all the ideas are [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► fresh and all the exposition is there [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► and I thought it was so clever i think [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► you're right maybe the second one [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► actually is better like it moves Morris [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► was not as much exposition but you have [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► a little more you have a little more [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► plot right you got the mule that comes [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► in which is sort of that's the part i [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► remember being really excited right love [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► ya and that's a good that's a good [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► hidden thing like you don't realize i [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► mean at some point I don't think the [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► first time I read it I got it until the [TS]

00:09:45 ◼   ► and you're like oh okay that makes sense [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► but it's just like it's some good faints [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► and double faints and he doesn't he [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► doesn't Telegraph everything that's [TS]

00:09:52 ◼   ► going to happen some of its obvious and [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► especially now because everything that [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► he did was absorbed into other records [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► later works but i mean i think it is [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► literally a Scot says it's it's the [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► foundation of modern science fiction as [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► you can't walk away from the ideas in [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► the book because everyone read them and [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► then they even if they hated it [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► what they wrote was an opposition it's [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► like atheists and the Bible right I I [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► have to say I really enjoyed some of as [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► most other works i have a soft spot for [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► caves of steel which is his is murder [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► mystery and the with a robot are jhoniel [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► when lava la who which which actually [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► not spoil too much which actually does [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► link in with foundation that area [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► yes but I i really enjoy that trilogy [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► that he has with the Elijah Baley and [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► Rdio lot solving mysteries and in [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► various planets and stuff like that i [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► can remember like I can remember that [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► feeling of when when the way what's the [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► fellows name the human work he works [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► with daily my daily record which it goes [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► on the surface the planet has never [TS]

00:10:50 ◼   ► really been on the surface of the planet [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► and just forces himself to do in that [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► sense of being out of the terror of [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► being an open space because he's lived [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► his life underground you're like wow [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► it's just that was actually some good [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► writing [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► ya know i think i think as much some [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► some of this stuff is better [TS]

00:11:04 ◼   ► and other stuff but foundation does and [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► questionably sort of the the standard by [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► which he is judged i think it's [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► certainly the most influential work [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► the big problem is there's all these was [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► a great bear and some of the other some [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► moderate size pictures were hired to [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► write additional foundation books and [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► those are sort of i've read a couple of [TS]

00:11:20 ◼   ► them and I just remember anything except [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► my screaming bad idea [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► yeah and i am a devout as an offensive [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► I've read all of his novels and I I like [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► them all [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► I do realize you know he's he's like [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► jason said he's working so he likes [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► water as let me ask you as an asthma fan [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► i want to ask you i heard i remember [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► when i was a kid I remember hearing this [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► trivia that he had written something in [TS]

00:11:44 ◼   ► every category of the dewey decimal [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► system that is true and iíve also i [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► don't know if it's true but that it is [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► often said that he had it is it is an [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► anti I don't know with your first get [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► going to get that is true that is true [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► it is uh i have read that I I cannot [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► confirm whether or not it is true he had [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► two previous it's true that he did it [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► for all 10 major categories of pound ok [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► but not sort of categories know and he [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► was it was constantly writing he's also [TS]

00:12:12 ◼   ► he has a PhD in chemistry he was he was [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► a well at an accomplishment I've read [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► his autobiography i'll have a great you [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► know this is a joke but his [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► autobiography over the title is in [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► memory yet green and there's a sequel [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► and he was asked to go use a line from [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► poetry and then apparently he just [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► invented a poem it's actually nice [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► little poem but it was so convincing [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► people thought it was some older you [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► know 19th century work but he had [TS]

00:12:37 ◼   ► borrowed from as a mom as well if a task [TS]

00:12:41 ◼   ► out your sky was gonna ask it's like it [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► usually takes a lifetime to read azimoff [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► so you must be how many years old are [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► you Scott [TS]

00:12:48 ◼   ► i was born in 1887 that's right he just [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► put the books under the pillow at night [TS]

00:12:53 ◼   ► and wakes up having read them [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► that's that's right alright so there is [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► a as mob we have two items [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► although really the foundation trilogy [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► is more than one item but will let Scott [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► have it [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► let's move on to glen plan what is your [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► selection and if it is in German then [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► you will have to describe it in German [TS]

00:13:11 ◼   ► it is not in channel right okay honey in [TS]

00:13:14 ◼   ► English go tom [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► I think I'm gonna pick do [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► if we're picking great sprawling things [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► and i can say with absolute definitive [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► certainty that dude you should be doing [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► and then forget that the word do exist [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► in any other book title after that [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► ah but the first book i mean i remember [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► reading that this is one of these books [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► are as a you know it's always a early [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► teenager somewhere around there and I [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► was totally absorbed by he created an [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► entire universe full of improbable [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► things that all sort of has some [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► self-consistency and its mystical and [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► there are these crazy [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► none order that are like creating you're [TS]

00:13:53 ◼   ► using genetics to bring about some kind [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► of Messiah was going to unite the [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► universe their giant sandworms and these [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► evil horrible you know houses and it's [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► just I think it's a great sprawling mass [TS]

00:14:08 ◼   ► and it's very enjoyable great read and [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► then freestanding you don't need to read [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► please don't read the others because [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► you'll be so disappointed is good in the [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► summer because it's a very hot planet so [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► if you're outright heat or you're [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► beating the heat by staying inside you [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► can you can kind of imagine the heat of [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► the planet dude I i read dune in the [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► summer in a hammock when I was growing [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► up in high school and just like 90 [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► degree heat and some iced tea and out my [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► hammock reading when i read i don't know [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► how many books in that hammock but doing [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► what I remember about it is that it was [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► one of the first really long books that [TS]

00:14:41 ◼   ► i read because it's like five computers [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► long [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► yeah and my review of it at the time was [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► well it's pretty good after the first [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► 200 pages there's a lot of setup but i [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► think i would argue actually the setup [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► on a second reading is better because [TS]

00:14:53 ◼   ► there's all this stuff that's like the [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► house of Arcola in the house of the [TS]

00:14:56 ◼   ► trade is a blog global you're like okay [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► don't get it and then the intricacy goes [TS]

00:15:00 ◼   ► in later and you come back and one that [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► there's a lot of stuff in there too that [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► I sort of like because it's um it's he's [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► trying to throw he was trying to [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► overthrow tropes there are so many [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► trucks and this is sort of i think this [TS]

00:15:11 ◼   ► was considered one of the first [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► environmentalist science-fiction novels [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► that there's a bent about you know it is [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► the country he does the trope of like [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► the noble native you know the people who [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► are the framing on [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► the planet Arrakis known as doing are [TS]

00:15:25 ◼   ► you know noble and this great culture [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► and the Warriors but they're tender and [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► kind and they have secret names in the [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► tribe and they're secretly gathering all [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► the scarce water on the planet to turn [TS]

00:15:37 ◼   ► it into a green planet one day to [TS]

00:15:39 ◼   ► unleash the water and just like you know [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► wheels within wheels and anyway it's [TS]

00:15:44 ◼   ► just I don't know I just I have a fond [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► spot for it and the movie of it just by [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► the way I'm it was reviewed so horribly [TS]

00:15:52 ◼   ► David Lynch movie I've seen it again i [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► watched it I think it's not in the [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► theaters and I seen it again not that [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► long ago it has a kind of charm to it I [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► will kill him things fact that i love [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► staying a lot of big helper air and love [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► them as a friend rather Patrick students [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► am I my favorite I'll o'clock and b is [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► the the naming scheme and he goes on to [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► like children of dune and my god emperor [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► of dune and convenience store clerk of [TS]

00:16:20 ◼   ► dune like 36 years ready to keep going [TS]

00:16:22 ◼   ► pretty much the entire time [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► oh my god they just are so horrible i [TS]

00:16:25 ◼   ► read them all I can't imagine i read [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► them all i would keep picking I got you [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► through shame this one can and then his [TS]

00:16:31 ◼   ► son started riding with other people i [TS]

00:16:33 ◼   ► think i read one or two of those and it [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► was like no no it's pretty mother to [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► death [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► it's pretty much the death of any [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► franchise I feel like when I definitely [TS]

00:16:40 ◼   ► want a relative takes it over but but [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► almost almost when anybody takes over [TS]

00:16:45 ◼   ► white piano starts writing in somebody [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► else's world with rare exceptions it's [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► pretty much always like that is the time [TS]

00:16:51 ◼   ► to give up i don't recommend there was a [TS]

00:16:54 ◼   ► young made for TV series version of it [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► that was much closer to my channel [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► yeah yeah it wasn't it wasn't fantastic [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► i thought it was a good watch that I [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► thought that any service was good yeah [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► yeah yeah it was good it was well done [TS]

00:17:05 ◼   ► not the sequel that that fits with the [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► books so haha that's true the original [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► source i would say the dune again as one [TS]

00:17:12 ◼   ► of those things that echoes in the minds [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► of other writers so even if they aren't [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► trying to ape Herbert style in that [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► first and only good book i also have the [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► way plagued by him as I say doing his [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► first and only good book that the they [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► pick up all these elements the things [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► about travel between the stars and [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► having these navigators who need a kind [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► of drug to let them to enter hyperspace [TS]

00:17:32 ◼   ► where do we see that mental state oh yes [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► embassy town you know so you [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► reactive across decades and decades to [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► come from it and shine mr. town when [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► someone is trying to provoke 10 more [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► minutes [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► let's work let's move on to Lex Friedman [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► who has a as a selection that will be [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► less science-fictional I suspect that's [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► ok Lex what do you have a trice you are [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► correct and i will say that i was [TS]

00:17:55 ◼   ► talking with my wife who is a very big [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► sci-fi fan before we started taping and [TS]

00:18:00 ◼   ► she said she disapproved of all three of [TS]

00:18:02 ◼   ► my choices saying the word science [TS]

00:18:04 ◼   ► fictiony enough [TS]

00:18:05 ◼   ► why is she on the show and it's a great [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► question but my first choice its is the [TS]

00:18:11 ◼   ► time traveler's wife which I believe [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► you've discussed in Latin relax i was [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► gonna pick that so don't feel bad i was [TS]

00:18:16 ◼   ► gonna act as one of my know it occurred [TS]

00:18:18 ◼   ► to it occurred to me my lieutenant [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► that's a valid scientific it is [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► absolutely is one of the better [TS]

00:18:22 ◼   ► portrayals of some of time travel travel [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► right well that's exactly what i was [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► going to say is you know I i love time [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► travel watch any movie with time travel [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► i have seen those and I'll read any book [TS]

00:18:31 ◼   ► about time travel because I I'm [TS]

00:18:33 ◼   ► fascinated by it and when we did when we [TS]

00:18:35 ◼   ► talked about back to the future sometime [TS]

00:18:37 ◼   ► back we talked about how back to the [TS]

00:18:39 ◼   ► futures rules of time-travel are the [TS]

00:18:41 ◼   ► ones that if you if your fiction follows [TS]

00:18:43 ◼   ► those rules you don't have to explain [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► them because that's how everybody now [TS]

00:18:46 ◼   ► understand such a time-travel thanks to [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► that movie right [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► the time traveler's wife obviously does [TS]

00:18:50 ◼   ► not take that approach it goes a very [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► different way in a way that I as time [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► travel goes it seems in some ways more [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► logical i agree i makes considerably [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► more sense and and I and I felt like it [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► was good for summer reading list because [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► it's also you know it's a love story and [TS]

00:19:06 ◼   ► it's romance and that's you know that's [TS]

00:19:08 ◼   ► the kind of light-hearted fair you want [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► but I mean I can't believe it's her [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► I don't know how to pronounce your name [TS]

00:19:12 ◼   ► so I'm not even trying with audrey and a [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► head the niffenegger like so I can't [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► believe it's her first novel and I think [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► it's just so very brilliantly put [TS]

00:19:23 ◼   ► together and assembled in the the story [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► is is obviously it's it's told in a [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► linear fashion that is not at all in any [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► sense of the term linear linear and I [TS]

00:19:32 ◼   ► just I think it's excellent i really [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► i've read it more than once I enjoyed [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► every single time i get new things for [TS]

00:19:36 ◼   ► what each time the movie is terrible but [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► the book is really i found just [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► excellent and an excellent handling of [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► of time travel and really not just [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► enforcing its own time travel rules but [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► truly sticking to them and respecting [TS]

00:19:48 ◼   ► what those rules would be the [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► anybody who watch Doctor Who in the [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► Steven Moffat era has gotten the river [TS]

00:19:56 ◼   ► song story is very much a Time [TS]

00:19:59 ◼   ► Traveler's Wife a influence let's say [TS]

00:20:03 ◼   ► storyline and and the nice thing about [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► the time traveler's wife is that the [TS]

00:20:06 ◼   ► storyline and the timelines are [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► internally consistent and that's what [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► what I really like about it is it is [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► using and we have talked about this [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► before but i love it so much that i'm [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► happy i was going to talk about it again [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► you know it it's it's got all the [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► ramifications of being up unstuck in [TS]

00:20:23 ◼   ► time and how you're seeing this [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► relationship from different vantage [TS]

00:20:25 ◼   ► points from the two characters and it's [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► it is touching and it talks about the [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► fact that all relationships and all [TS]

00:20:34 ◼   ► lives and and that in it but it does it [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► in the strange way where you different [TS]

00:20:39 ◼   ► you know the last time that they see [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► each other is different for each person [TS]

00:20:41 ◼   ► which is fascinating [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► I loved it a lot hurt her apparently i [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► think my wife tried to reach her second [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► book and it wasn't very good but this [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► terrible i didn't i didn't even get past [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► like three chapters but this is a great [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► book i love this book so I think that's [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► a great pic Lex [TS]

00:20:55 ◼   ► thank you i don't want to spoil anything [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► to but it's a it's emotional the whole [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► way through the early ends that just [TS]

00:20:59 ◼   ► grab you and pull you and hurt you [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► that's great don't watch the movie read [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► the book can isolate my my criticism the [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► book is not that it's a bad book I [TS]

00:21:07 ◼   ► actually loved it until i reached the [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► point in which she telegraph was gonna [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► happen so strongly I had to put it down [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► because i was too invested in the [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► characters and I mean exactly what's [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► going to happen and I can I don't know [TS]

00:21:18 ◼   ► how many pages in it was like I cannot [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► read this anymore because I'm going to [TS]

00:21:21 ◼   ► scream and cry so she doesn't tell I [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► mean it's time travel right i mean it's [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► hard after I know but it but it's time [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► travel I mean that's the whole point is [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► she knows and the character knows that [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► something terrible is going to happen [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► and I think she could have done a better [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► job of of manipulating the streams all [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► I'm because you have no heart [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► alright well I liked it I liked it [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► thumbs up as well [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► look at that oh yes i am so proud of [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► myself right now [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► Lex when that happens to relax you [TS]

00:21:48 ◼   ► actually get important at this time [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► minus a minus points to a Glen because [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► he's rocking that's right and i make i [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► have made up in volumes so far ahead [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► the 1i have not right you shouldn't you [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► should read that Scott I think you might [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► even like it because i liked it and you [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► and I like things [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► true in my wife it's one of her favorite [TS]

00:22:05 ◼   ► books see there you go there's lots of [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► recently lights it's in my top center [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► yeah it seems like a lady book to me i [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► don't know if that's true it is you know [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► in the summer [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► Scott in the summertime i like to wear [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► always outside with a beverage and and [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► and let the breeze blow over me and if [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► thats ladylike then so be it [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► read my lady book i'm casting their [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► judgments are just saying that's what it [TS]

00:22:28 ◼   ► struck me my next choice is fifty Shades [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► of Grey serenity Caldwell you're up [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► what do you think well um actually been [TS]

00:22:37 ◼   ► read the time traveler's wife so I will [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► refrain from commenting on lexus pic I [TS]

00:22:40 ◼   ► in terms of my own summer reading if i [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► go back most of all of the books that i [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► read during the summer read at a cabin [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► by the lake and this cabin had lots of [TS]

00:22:50 ◼   ► older books so a lot of my pics are from [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► the 1970s sixties fifties forties so [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► it'll make the things a little bit [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► interesting but I also i went to the [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► local library and so in addition to that [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► i would read like I read lots and lots [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► of star wars books growing up because it [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► was just readily available and there [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► were a lot of them and I could get [TS]

00:23:10 ◼   ► through them quickly but the one book [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► that I kept on coming back to besides [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► the large amount of Tim's and other [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► wonderful writers that I kept coming [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► back to I was Madeline legals wrinkle in [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► time which is 0 will possibly one of my [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► top five favorite books but it's also [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► choice as well relax tesseract there is [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► such a thing as a tender act so this is [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► the book that mean I mean there are [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► other books in this in this series are [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► not in their competitors but in my pics [TS]

00:23:42 ◼   ► that will indicate my love of science as [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► a young child but this was really my [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► love of science fiction science where I [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► picked up this book and I'm like oh my [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► god interstellar time and space travel [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► this is blowing my mind and it's all [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► identifiable kids you know when your god [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► I must have been seven or eight when I [TS]

00:24:03 ◼   ► first picked this book up and then i [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► read it you know through the through my [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► teen years and there's someone to [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► identify with as you grow up with this [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► book whether you're you know Charles [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► Wallace's age or you get up to megs age [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► you know you really [TS]

00:24:17 ◼   ► you can go through the book and find [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► something new every time and that's what [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► i really really adore about this book [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► and then also there the missus which the [TS]

00:24:26 ◼   ► interdimensional spirit / stars / we [TS]

00:24:31 ◼   ► don't quite understand what they are but [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► they're you know they can travel through [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► time so it's it's cool and it's you know [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► a good versus evil battle where the good [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► folks are artists and scientists and the [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► bad you know big big black things and [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► and I'm not going to spoil the ending of [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► the book for the people who haven't read [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► it and if you haven't read what are you [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► doing listening to this podcast go read [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► it right now it is the perfect summer [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► read i haven't read it but my guess is [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► at the end time gets Botox and no longer [TS]

00:25:00 ◼   ► has a wrinkle is that right [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► something like that standpoint selects [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► minus ten points yesterday sorry you're [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► gonna get influenced and again but yeah [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► I really love this book and I and it's [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► sequels are also very good i actually [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► one of one of its sequels many waters is [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► a sequel a little bit down the ways [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► which involves the sum of the wrinkled [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► time folks going back to know was time I [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► believe so basically playing with the [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► idea of Bible characters and that is a [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► very interesting book for very different [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► reasons but also a good summary so [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► that's my my pitch for a wrinkle in time [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► and its successors and also i know for [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► those people who don't like lots of [TS]

00:25:51 ◼   ► words there's a graphic novel coming out [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► this fall which is also i am very [TS]

00:25:56 ◼   ► excited for because the person is doing [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► the not the graphic novels like [TS]

00:26:00 ◼   ► absolutely in love with a wrinkle in [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► time and she's like oh my god this has [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► been my favorite project to work on so [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► I'm crossing my fingers that this will [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► be yet another thing i can add to my reg [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► one-time bookshelf for haters of words [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► or lovers of groundwater levels of [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► graphic novels that I mean they're still [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► quite a few words and i think the [TS]

00:26:17 ◼   ► graphic novel is going to be something [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► like for 500 pages so it's there's no [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► there's not going to be a dearth of [TS]

00:26:23 ◼   ► words just more pictures [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► alright that's it that's a classic what [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► I still have my paperback copy i believe [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► from [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► when I was a kid that's in my daughter's [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► bookshelf now uh-huh that's great one [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► alright i guess it's my turn I know I [TS]

00:26:41 ◼   ► get a turn [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► it's shocking because we've been here [TS]

00:26:44 ◼   ► forever and this is the end of the first [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► round so we're gonna have to go faster [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► but I i have a bunch of different things [TS]

00:26:50 ◼   ► here i'm not really sure what what to to [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► go with first so I'm gonna go with the [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► obscurity route with the first pick and [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► I i was always a big fan of the [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► cyberpunk genre and you know william [TS]

00:27:03 ◼   ► gibson's neuromancer was you know just [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► blew me away when it came out and i [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► would be an obvious choice and i'm not [TS]

00:27:10 ◼   ► going to pick it so then then my choice [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► was I think there's a Gibson book that [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► may be better than neuromancer and I may [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► get to it but instead i'm going to go [TS]

00:27:17 ◼   ► with a much more obscure cyberpunk book [TS]

00:27:20 ◼   ► from 1986 it's called when gravity fails [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► by George Alec a finger but it was a [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► Scot McNulty seal of approval [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► check it out it was a nebula nominee was [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► a hugo nominee it is set in a cyberpunk [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► middle-eastern locale it's area it's a [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► kind of an Islamic culture that is is [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► dominant and predominant the it is it is [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► a new war kind of story [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► the the main character is married now [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► drawn i think it Murray did is they you [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► know he's kind of got a bad job and he [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► he's involved with like criminals and [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► there's this whole like organized crime [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► system in the place where he lives and [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► his girlfriend is a let me see if I can [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► get this straight [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► it was born male has been changed into a [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► female and now works as a prostitute and [TS]

00:28:16 ◼   ► she and the other prostitutes are sort [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► of like Marines buddies in this kind of [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► underworld setting and he gets into the [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► store into trouble [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► there are these things that you can [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► stick in people's heads that modify [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► their brains you know it's a great [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► cyberpunk novel it is really widely [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► known and it's kind of a mind-blowing [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► story it is you know maybe we'll from [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► literary merit perspectives not as great [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► as some of the gibson stuff but i think [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► under [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► appreciated and I just remember these [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► three novels its first myth series being [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► just fantastic when i read them I was [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► blown away by them they're they're so [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► different in a in setting and in mood [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► while still having this great kind of [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► nor underworld you know crime story [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► happening which like a lot of the [TS]

00:29:06 ◼   ► cyberpunk stuff but it really it has [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► stuck with me to this day so when [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► gravity fails is my choice and I'm glad [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► it got the McNulty not there [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► that's good well you win the the first [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► book in this list that I have not read [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► haha 2 i'll have to put that on my list [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► it's good aware of that it is in it [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► isn't printed tour is publishing now in [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► Georgia like a finger actually very good [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► writer and sadly was a very ill for a [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► long time the huge hospital bills and I [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► remember he had it is like apartment [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► burned down and and Harlan Ellison did [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► this thing where they raise money to try [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► and pay his bills and and and and then [TS]

00:29:43 ◼   ► he died fairly young and while writing [TS]

00:29:46 ◼   ► the fourth book in the series about 10 [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► years ago i think so [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► which is a real shame sort of sad life [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► but I left some great work behind so [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► George Alec a finger and I got the the [TS]

00:30:00 ◼   ► Scot McMillan thumbs up in the damn [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► morning huh [TS]

00:30:02 ◼   ► so I consider that 242 uh oh man points [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► thank you though I get points excellent [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► i wish someone has on writing being [TS]

00:30:12 ◼   ► let's go to dan moore and for a second [TS]

00:30:15 ◼   ► selection dan back back around to the [TS]

00:30:17 ◼   ► top all right well I'm gonna I'm gonna [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► borrow page from the electromagnet [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► playbook for a book about time travel [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► very much very different from the first [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► book i suggested and that is connie [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► willis is to say nothing of the dog [TS]

00:30:29 ◼   ► which is one of my favorite part that [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► was on my list to as in mitotic area i'm [TS]

00:30:36 ◼   ► wearing john against grace and tell you [TS]

00:30:38 ◼   ► I've read it though so it's an excellent [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► excellent book it's one of she's written [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► I don't know four or five books now [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► about this particular time travel which [TS]

00:30:46 ◼   ► is to say but one of the things I like [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► about is her time to books are always [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► very grounded in the period to which the [TS]

00:30:52 ◼   ► people travel so in some ways they're [TS]

00:30:53 ◼   ► more like historical fiction to say [TS]

00:30:56 ◼   ► nothing of the dog is my fav [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► it because unlike the other one [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► many of the other ones she writes about [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► it's funny it's really really really [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► funny like like laugh-out-loud put the [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► book down because i'm crying funny and [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► basically it involves some characters [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► who are academics from Oxford going back [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► to i think it's the is the nineteen [TS]

00:31:18 ◼   ► twenties or so right yeah that's not a [TS]

00:31:21 ◼   ► time period but back when back it when [TS]

00:31:23 ◼   ► cats weren't extinct [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► yeah it's sort of a it's sort of a [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► mystery and sort of a comedy of manners [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► and it's just it's incredibly delightful [TS]

00:31:34 ◼   ► and I think it's really got me is I had [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► not read anything by connie was proud of [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► that and I think someone gave that book [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► to me and I was like I was kinda [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► interesting i'll start reading it and I [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► loved it so much that I've gone back and [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► reread many of her other books which are [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► several of which were also close [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► competitors on this list but to say [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► nothing of the dog remains my favorite [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► and I think that is because she manages [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► to capture this beautiful madcap I say [TS]

00:31:59 ◼   ► Woodhouse Ian a comedy aspect and I just [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► I adore PG Wodehouse and I think she [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► manages to sort of tapping to his psyche [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► here with this with the comedy in to say [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► nothing of the dog yeah I'm funny [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► justjust I mean it is there are not that [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► many site syfy comedies there are some [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► yeah this is a sign right now well as [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► done hilarious and I i think that you [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► know for me it got started on the the [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► thing that got me laughing so hard the [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► first time I read it was that [TS]

00:32:25 ◼   ► so in this university suffer from time [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► lag as one might suffer from jet lag but [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► one of the symptoms of time lag is [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► increased sentimentality and so that's [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► what the characters talking to a dog [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► about our dog man's best friend you [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► truly are better than the other [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► characters are going like are you [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► alright and so I think that does my [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► favorite if you want the sort of darker [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► turn on that one [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► Doomsday vault which is also very good [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► but extremely depressing and like you [TS]

00:32:54 ◼   ► know is the tragedy to the comedy [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► guessing everybody let's time travel to [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► the Black Plague I is everything [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► everybody dies [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► basically yeah yeah and then and then [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► sort of in the middle ground there you [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► get the blackout all-clear ideology and [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► then I think she wrote a short story as [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► well fire watch which also [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► so is in the same universe right and [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► yeah and several other books are good [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► I'd say they close the close runner-up [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► there and it's less science-fictiony but [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► the close runner-up for my favorite book [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► by his bellwether which is a short [TS]

00:33:24 ◼   ► adorable little book that we're out [TS]

00:33:26 ◼   ► there but connie willis and authors but [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► it is worth checking out and to say [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► nothing of the dog in particular is my [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► favorite good call let's move on to [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► Scott McNulty yeah I I wasn't prepared [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► to move about [TS]

00:33:39 ◼   ► ah so in keeping with your cyberpunk of [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► recommendation Jason I will i mentioned [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► a book that is not to inform cyberpunk [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► as a genre although when I read it I [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► didn't pick up on that all the stars my [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► destination by alfred bester oh yeah [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► which is fantastic book also a kind of [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► dark because the main character is a [TS]

00:34:05 ◼   ► completely overtaken with a crazed needs [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► to exact revenge he starts off the book [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► it basically kind of a stuck in a Life [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► pod in space basically for for many many [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► months and a ship comes by anything so [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► they're gonna pick me up but they don't [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► and then through a series of events he [TS]

00:34:31 ◼   ► gets out and then he he decides that he [TS]

00:34:33 ◼   ► needs to get his revenge upon the the [TS]

00:34:36 ◼   ► crew of the ship [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► it's a very complicated book and this [TS]

00:34:41 ◼   ► plot to a kind of the synopsis but the [TS]

00:34:47 ◼   ► things that you need to remember is the [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► the character main character crash-lands [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► on this this planet that is constructed [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► of discarded spaceships and unbeknownst [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► to him the inhabitants of this planet [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► tattoo a very elaborate tattoo on his [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► face which they don't have mirrors so he [TS]

00:35:05 ◼   ► never notices it and then he's picked up [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► by another spaceship and they're like [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► dude you have a tattoo on your face like [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► oh my God he's also able to psychically [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► teleport himself uh interstellar two [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► different planets which other people [TS]

00:35:19 ◼   ► can't do but they can do in shorter [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► distances [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► and other people can read people's minds [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► its is very complicated out but through [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► many kind of high jinks he eventually [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► kind of gets revenge but doesn't there's [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► a lot of twists and turns to the story [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► it is kind of dark so be prepared for [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► that but yeah it is very good really [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► good really good [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► I read that a few years ago and that's [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► it is it's great that you can jaunt [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► right is that like you teleport around [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► but only so there's like a distance [TS]

00:35:52 ◼   ► limitation or something but he doesn't [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► have that he figures out how to get rid [TS]

00:35:56 ◼   ► of that distance haha and and so people [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► are quite interested in that diabolical [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► another interesting point is that he [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► gets exactly he gets the tattoo removed [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► from his face so that he can you know a [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► blend in with people so nobody knows [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► it's him about except what he gets [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► really excited the the faint tattoo [TS]

00:36:17 ◼   ► where was kind of fills in again because [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► the blood rushes to his face [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► so that's a kind of a critical moment in [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► the story he gets really excited and [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► then people like I had to you all right [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► the stars my destination could pick [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► let's move on to glen me why are you [TS]

00:36:34 ◼   ► also surprised i'm just going in the [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► same order we did the last time we try [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► to introduce element of tension in the [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► shoulders haha you'll never know who [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► i'll pick next except if you're paying [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► attention then you'll know [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► go ahead and also apparently wasn't I i [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► am going to pick Hyperion by Dan Simmons [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► also on my list great so 10 points to [TS]

00:36:52 ◼   ► you [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► thank you so the reason I i would [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► mention Hyperion is I i think i try to [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► pick all the things that might have [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► along along with we will get to that [TS]

00:37:02 ◼   ► perhaps we post our list on the side [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► alone but the Hyperion is something like [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► many other novels where when I read it I [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► was struck I was struck by the beauty [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► the intensity by unusual ideas that [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► never entered my mind before and change [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► my consciousness forever so iperion [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► tells the story in a kind of not [TS]

00:37:21 ◼   ► pilgrims progress but am [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► a tracer what's the roster story the [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► transfer anybody anybody transfer [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► transfer yeah the canterbury tales [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► characters yeah mom that opera this [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► route is softer bigger slide on the [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► showers [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► suta hot that pair said to the ruta my [TS]

00:37:41 ◼   ► god game hall where all English majors [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► here i cannot i was art so i can just [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► draw a picture of it so the candidates [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► that has a loose structure of canterbury [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► tales with stories told in turn by six [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► different people on this spaceship that [TS]

00:37:53 ◼   ► are all going off to something like [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► uncharted space and they all center [TS]

00:37:57 ◼   ► around a planet called Hyperion that [TS]

00:37:59 ◼   ► theme of Glenn's evening like dune is a [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► peculiar planet my period has strange [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► properties and there's some like the [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► sort of area that's almost impossible [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► because it generates the plant life [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► generates electrical fields and storms [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► and lightning and you can't even really [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► land spaceships there nobody really [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► cares its kind of this beat-up old [TS]

00:38:17 ◼   ► planet and mysterious events are [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► happening or have been happening over a [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► period of time and so there's a poet [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► there's an ambassador or a diplomat [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► there's a woman an old Jewish man whose [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► daughter is aging backwards in time and [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► a priest to has a actual well I won't [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► tell that place too much of the spoilers [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► yes technol the story but at the cross [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► and the resurrection mean extra special [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► things to the priest extra special so [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► it's I think it's a great it's a great [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► set of stories and apparently one of the [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► stories about Cirie sis remembering [TS]

00:38:48 ◼   ► serie very sorry it was originally a [TS]

00:38:50 ◼   ► standalone story that we came to Germany [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► this of the novel and it's you it's [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► picaresque because you have different [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► things happen that are facets of the of [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► the same place but happening different [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► hot right happen across space everything [TS]

00:39:03 ◼   ► is coming to a point in Hyperion and [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► there's this mysterious creature called [TS]

00:39:07 ◼   ► the Shrike that is some enormous multi [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► arms armored thing that no one quite [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► knows what it is and I think it's got [TS]

00:39:13 ◼   ► its full of mystery it's a it's [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► beautifully written dan simmons [TS]

00:39:16 ◼   ► everything he writes beautifully written [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► but I find a lot of it so either [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► hermetic or just you know it's [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► impenetrable or just don't know I find [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► an idiotic at this point that i can I [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► try to read his stuff like the olympus [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► and [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► oh yeah only I'm not yeah Williams try [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► red book is and i just found them so [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► model I didn't know but he writes [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► beautifully it carries man same thing [TS]

00:39:36 ◼   ► with as with doing i would suggest if [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► you read Hyperion read the first and [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► don't read a full of Hyperion and demand [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► rise of endymion because I think they're [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► I think they lesson for me the [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► appreciation that first novel there a [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► second one especially it abandons the [TS]

00:39:50 ◼   ► whole narrative structure and the app [TS]

00:39:52 ◼   ► becomes kind of a space should be up [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► with lots of study and then ends to the [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► first of the Hyperion and so unfairly [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► though as a reader because they [TS]

00:39:59 ◼   ► descended into the valley and you like [TS]

00:40:01 ◼   ► but but because the really the point is [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► to tell you these seven stories of the [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► travelers it's it's almost like an [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► anthology set in the same universe along [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► with this framing sequence and then the [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► sequel is really like and this is what [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► happened when they got there and I read [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► it and I liked it but you're right that [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► it's sort of not the point of the first [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► book and I love you guys did love it he [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► just what I think kind of gave up on the [TS]

00:40:23 ◼   ► narrative structure Andy but theta so I [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► like a period i have the same problem [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► with a lot of you know books that have [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► sequels but i think this one in [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► particular it's like a period fantastic [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► one of the best science fiction novels [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► ever written despite the ending issue [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► you know the next novel thats not bad [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► but not great and then like all so I'm [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► yeah just a riparian restrain yourself [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► don't worry about don't worry about what [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► happens to the characters just out there [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► i'd say it's really too to book the [TS]

00:40:50 ◼   ► Paris and you could read fall of [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► hyperion I really wouldn't recommend [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► reading the Endymion rise of endymion [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► that's sure that the only reason you [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► could read the Hyperion resolution well [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► he needed the thing he was revisionist [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► Endymion and rising and oh yeah there's [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► a lot of red khan in there yeah it's [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► retcon it's very frustrating right calm [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► because you're like dude you made your [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► universe [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► you gotta live with it or rewrite your [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► box because you're just going SSJ [TS]

00:41:13 ◼   ► reactors [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► yeah but it's good stuff I like that a [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► lot and it was on my list i had it open [TS]

00:41:17 ◼   ► a little browser tab right here i was [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► going to talk about [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► well thank you so 2 plus 10 to climb [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► thank you for being such good taste i am [TS]

00:41:23 ◼   ► glad that people know yes got it was [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► also my list just to look at that plus [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► 22 Glenn amazing thing to ya know that's [TS]

00:41:32 ◼   ► good that's really good he can square [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► let us move on you need for a low score [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► right it's like golf [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► it's like golf that's exactly it let's [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► move on to lex free [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► men what I can't wait to hear what legs [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► Friedman has now it's just bad travelers [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► way to Schmidt moment you guys are [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► already being cruel and haven't even [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► gotten to the embarrassing part yet i [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► will say with some trepidation that for [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► my second selection i debated between [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► not one not two but three separate [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► novels all by the same guy a very famous [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► author not necessarily renowned for his [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► sci-fi work but it was the King Stephen [TS]

00:42:07 ◼   ► King and I looked at the first one was [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► going to pick was 11 22 63 but i didn't [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► have two choices that had already had [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► incomparable episodes that covered them [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► and let me happy 263 and time travel [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► yeah right it's not over time travel and [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► this is felt redundant so I looked under [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► the dome which i think is over all his [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► best written story where in the you know [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► the opening scenes a strange [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► impenetrable glass dome or a glass maybe [TS]

00:42:34 ◼   ► not be the right material with an [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► impenetrable dome comes down over this [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► town and then you watch what happens in [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► this town with these people who are cut [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► off from the rest of the world [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► I mean it's just it's great it's long [TS]

00:42:43 ◼   ► its vivid and every scene is I think [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► really draw beautifully and I i think in [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► a failure that is too common to King the [TS]

00:42:50 ◼   ► the ending is just really kind of [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► terrible so I rejected that one and I [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► landed on the least sci-fi ish of my [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► three selections but will allow it [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► because it's a summer episode it was the [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► Long Walk which he didn't even write a [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► stephen king at the time he wrote it is [TS]

00:43:05 ◼   ► Richard Bachman but the long walk is I [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► think my my most beloved Stephen King [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► novel the one that i reread the most [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► often about a a dystopian society of [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► some sort and for reasons that are never [TS]

00:43:18 ◼   ► clearly explained various children are [TS]

00:43:22 ◼   ► called up each year to walk endlessly [TS]

00:43:24 ◼   ► and it's all televised for your [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► enjoyment and if you don't keep up with [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► the crowd or if you with the crowd of [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► young boys were all walking or if you [TS]

00:43:33 ◼   ► stumble or if at any point you falter [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► off the path they kill you where you [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► walk until you die and so you just it's [TS]

00:43:40 ◼   ► the whole book essentially is the walk [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► and that's on and also that's that's the [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► size i promise if ever there was a [TS]

00:43:47 ◼   ► satirical and all that so yes Lex I'll [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► allow it to [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► yes so but I mean you just you walk and [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► you walk [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► and I don't know for me it's i like it [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► for I like the story i like the fact [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► that he can tell a story where the [TS]

00:44:00 ◼   ► entire journey is the walking and it's [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► still a compelling read and I also think [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► it's a very clear very direct influence [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► to the Hunger Games [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► yeah so I think that is to his credit as [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► well I think that's a great choice Lex I [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► but the correct summer reading choice [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► for stephen king is probably the stand [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► but still good choice standards on my [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► summer reading list 0 for tackling it [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► o.o you should read it but you might [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► need a couple summers if you read the [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► full on uncut version but already [TS]

00:44:30 ◼   ► through you know song of ice and fire in [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► two months I think I care [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► yeah yeah so it's good pics already [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► called well you are next [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► don't be okay to cry whenever ya with me [TS]

00:44:44 ◼   ► what why do you possibly be now Jason I [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► think for my second pick [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► I'm going to have to go with another [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► book that I read probably once a summer [TS]

00:44:53 ◼   ► for four or five summers as I was [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► growing up and that is flowers for [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► algernon which started out life is a [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► short story and turned into a novel I [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► this book was also made it to eat not so [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► great film called Charlie which people [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► have probably seen it I've vastly prefer [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► the the book as do i with most film [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► adaptations but the plot of flowers for [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► algernon it's basically written log book [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► style wherein we basically look through [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► the eyes of a of a guy named Charlie who [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► has an IQ of 68 and you meet him and [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► he's working at this bakery and people [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► don't necessarily know people are making [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► fun of him but he can't really see it [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► because he's a little dim and he [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► basically gets drafted to be a guinea [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► pig in this experiment to supersize [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► human intelligence and so you're taking [TS]

00:45:55 ◼   ► on this journey as he basically becomes [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► smarter than anyone in any world and [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► sort of climbs up and in first you see [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► oh he's finally fitting in with his [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► surroundings and he [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► shooing you know all of the all of the [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► things that aren't working in his life [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► and then bad things happen with the IQ [TS]

00:46:17 ◼   ► test and everything starts to go wrong [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► and I really love this book because it's [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► it's weirdly disturbing in a sort of [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► it's a it's a glimpse into humanity at [TS]

00:46:30 ◼   ► its best and its worst because not only [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► do you see sort of Charlie's [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► transformation but because you see the [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► entire world through his eyes [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► I you really get to see you know the [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► people that he's working with at the [TS]

00:46:46 ◼   ► start he thinks that they're his friends [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► and as he starts to gain intelligence [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► and as he you know becomes more aware of [TS]

00:46:55 ◼   ► her surroundings he begins to realize oh [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► no these people are mocking me and oh [TS]

00:47:01 ◼   ► this woman I was you know really [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► attracted to all of a sudden I can't [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► interact with her at all because [TS]

00:47:08 ◼   ► everything she says makes me wanna you [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► know just walk away and I can't focus on [TS]

00:47:16 ◼   ► anything but you know my experiment now [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► like it's I find the entire book really [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► fascinating and i love the log book [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► style it's also kind of why I love John [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► Waltons among others it's it's really [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► really fun and intriguing to go directly [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► through a character's point of view and [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► not very many authors can do it really [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► really well and the Daniel Keyes who [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► wrote flowers for algernon just does it [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► spectacularly so if you if you haven't I [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► mean the short story if you don't have [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► time to read another story is [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► spectacular [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► I don't know if I've you read the novel [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► by remembering the short story and being [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► blown away by the novel is very good [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► the novel is a bit more adults the short [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► story i started off with a short story [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► because we actually had the the I think [TS]

00:48:03 ◼   ► there's a magazine that was first [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► published in we have that at my cabin [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► and I was so blown away by the short [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► story and my dad was basically like yeah [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► he wrote a full book of that that I went [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► immediately to the lake tahoe public [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► library or the South Lake Tahoe public [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► library like all right I want the actual [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► novel i think i may have actually payday [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► payday lost book fee on that one because [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► it just stayed around at the cabin for [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► years on end after that you stole it [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► from the line i know i'm a horrible [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► person but it was a really good book so [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► I I feel justified and i paid the [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► library back in spades [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► all right you might be will be Holly for [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► everybody [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► she's a betting it was Lake Tahoe she's [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► gambling minus 24 everybody who's turn [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► is it all for free cheese cases their [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► attorneys let's look do that's [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► unexpected [TS]

00:48:55 ◼   ► I had no idea as foreshadowed i'm going [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► to pick a william gibson novel next and [TS]

00:49:02 ◼   ► I think it's his best novel and that [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► comes a lot from somebody who's bought [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► neuromancer in about five different [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► formats but I i think his novel from [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► 2003 pattern recognition is his best [TS]

00:49:19 ◼   ► work it is sort of sci-fi but it's set [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► in more or less the present day I think [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► the premise here is that our world that [TS]

00:49:26 ◼   ► we live in now is in many ways if you [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► view it and in those ways uh [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► science-fictional it's got a lot of his [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► typical stories you know there's kind of [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► a MacGuffin there's a mysterious [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► billionaire there's some Russian [TS]

00:49:39 ◼   ► mobsters but I think you just described [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► the plot of Gilligan's Island [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► yeah it is there is there are no Russian [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► mobsters there on the other side of the [TS]

00:49:48 ◼   ► island with the headhunters what are you [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► talking about it you know it's um though [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► the woman who is the protagonist is a is [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► a cool find her she's finding she just [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► kind of one walks around and discovers [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► what's going to be cool and she uses [TS]

00:50:01 ◼   ► that that's her consultancy but she [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► discovers this strange set of of film [TS]

00:50:08 ◼   ► clips that are posted that nobody knows [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► what they mean and they're trained [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► people are trying to figure out what [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► these uh what these strange clips that [TS]

00:50:17 ◼   ► are what are they called the found the [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► footage of the footage and and there's [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► like this whole internet group of people [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► who are trying to figure out its like [TS]

00:50:27 ◼   ► the sample is read this I couldn't [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► already [TS]

00:50:29 ◼   ► turn up the footage is viral alright [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► it's like viral for viral was a thing [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► for viral video was a thing his [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► allergies all those earlier it and she's [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► a marketing professional but she's [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► allergic to branding which is so is she [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► liking she if she sees the Michelin Man [TS]

00:50:43 ◼   ► she like breaks out in hives and has a [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► panic attack and even other brand names [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► bother her and she's like special [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► clothing that doesn't have have branding [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► and it's and there's a there's a sep [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► tember 11th reference in which in which [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► he you know I think added in the latter [TS]

00:51:00 ◼   ► stages but gives it gives it an [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► interesting feeling and firmly a 21st [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► century feeling and you know what he's a [TS]

00:51:06 ◼   ► great writer but this is this is the [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► book where like I like the characters [TS]

00:51:09 ◼   ► especially the protagonist Casey Pollard [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► but also big and is in it who is the [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► thief was in all three of the novels in [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► this series the Belgian ad agency [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► millionaire or billionaire that the [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► solution to what does true story of the [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► footage is leads to there's some action [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► but there's also sort of a touching [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► situation where they go to Russia and [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► try to figure out what who's behind it [TS]

00:51:37 ◼   ► and along the way he just he he SAT [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► arises so many things about our modern [TS]

00:51:44 ◼   ► culture and also extrapolates just a [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► little bit forward as somebody is a big [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► fan of Max Headroom when it was on the [TS]

00:51:50 ◼   ► eighties this is that feel of the 20 [TS]

00:51:52 ◼   ► minutes into the future it's not it's [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► not you know 500 years in the future [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► it's just where our world is going to be [TS]

00:51:59 ◼   ► not long after and i love that I i think [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► it is him at the top of his game taking [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► you know the skills that he's built up [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► over the years and then and then I [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► thought his middle trilogy did the first [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► trilogy that was with neuromancer he did [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► the bridge trilogy in the middle that I [TS]

00:52:14 ◼   ► thought wasn't that great and then he [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► came out with pattern recognition which [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► turned out to be the first of this great [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► trilogy of books and it's on its own you [TS]

00:52:25 ◼   ► know it's a standalone novel you don't [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► have to read the other books really good [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► highly recommended so pattern [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► recognition that's my choice [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► that's the only give us in book I've [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► ever read [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► wow wow I like what I've said I would i [TS]

00:52:38 ◼   ► think i would neuromancer above pattern [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► recognition for me but i do like pattern [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► recognition [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► part of it was maybe when i read it let [TS]

00:52:44 ◼   ► them kind of cold because i felt like it [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► was it was so unless it was so I read it [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► years after it came out and so all that [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► stuff seemed kind of like old hat at [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► that point like oh yeah viral video on [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► the internet [TS]

00:52:57 ◼   ► yep we're gonna put that together yeah [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► alright and like it just seems like i [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► don't know it lost a little something of [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► a of the magic of it in there I think [TS]

00:53:04 ◼   ► but I I it's an interesting book and [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► there's a lot to like about it [TS]

00:53:09 ◼   ► so the book so far ahead of its time [TS]

00:53:11 ◼   ► when the time comes it seems to [TS]

00:53:13 ◼   ► understand how well the reason i picked [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► over over in romance because neuromancer [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► is so iíve read that so many times and [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► it was so influential but I felt like it [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► was I not only is it is it of its time [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► and it is it is more kind of clearly a [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► new aurash you know if there's a [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► megaphone one there and I right now I'm [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► like 20 years after it came out and [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► still found it like engrossing idea of [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► getting very late to neuromancer and and [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► really loved it [TS]

00:53:41 ◼   ► yeah I I wanted to be less obvious too [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► so there you go i think is going to [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► choose to not not picking pattern [TS]

00:53:47 ◼   ► recognition know i think i think is not [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► is not appreciated as it should be by [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► because neuromancer is such an [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► influential novel so that's what a pic [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► okay we're in we are into the third [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► round now so we should move this on a [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► little bit faster but i would like [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► another set of books so we are going to [TS]

00:54:07 ◼   ► go to glen fleischmann ha see what again [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► i change the order Glenn what's your [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► pick [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► all right thing oh where the what the I [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► want to pick something broad because [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► Phil k dick i want everything he wrote [TS]

00:54:22 ◼   ► no no you can't i'll pick out up a few [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► but here is what you get for going to go [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► and philip k dick is not Philip do you [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► have anything my fellow Kate you're [TS]

00:54:32 ◼   ► googling him right now I don't have that [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► type of the field k dick you wrote an [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► enormous amount and i'll recommend a [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► couple in love when name one book [TS]

00:54:43 ◼   ► Oh [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► it starts with the Galactic pot healer [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► which is the craziest title i think i [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► found out about this book from blind or [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► something and I it's a great release [TS]

00:54:54 ◼   ► prolly weird thing with that you know a [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► creature from another planet that sort [TS]

00:54:58 ◼   ► of recruits the guy from this dystopian [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► version of Earth many peers is like [TS]

00:55:03 ◼   ► flames and a Phoenix and people can't [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► see him in this like this underwater oh [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► my god it's a great sprawling massive [TS]

00:55:11 ◼   ► it's funny it's weird it's a if you want [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► to get job advice you have to come up [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► with actual quarters which cost a [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► fortune and put them in like a phone [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► booth and and robot gives you advice [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► it's just it's a crazy thing I can't [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► even explain it like I'm trying to [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► explain really said that is but actually [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► plant ecologist man in the high castle [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► ubiq also like these are all some of [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► them I think man the high castle is [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► better known but I i would say pick up [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► pick up some dick there's a couple of [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► collections out now there's three from [TS]

00:55:38 ◼   ► the new American Library came out with [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► like officially edited and collected [TS]

00:55:44 ◼   ► novels and have the first of them and I [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► think it's he's a great it's not it's [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► not easy summer reading always BUTT [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► STUFF is interesting and [TS]

00:55:53 ◼   ► thought-provoking bizarre and you don't [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► find anything like it in most other [TS]

00:55:57 ◼   ► science fiction because most people were [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► not as seriously disturbed as philip k [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► dick go active pot healer is that your [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► choice [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► well let's just put that over because [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► it's just a personal but you know Phil [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► okay to get a minute you gotta take one [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► you gotta pick one all picked galactic [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► particular for 200 Alex all right [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► ok let's go to the mornin but wyd [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► writers don't know what you're on the [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► pie [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► I'm going I'm going to veer off the [TS]

00:56:27 ◼   ► science station train slightly to a oh I [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► know I know [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► 282 a supernatural themed books are [TS]

00:56:34 ◼   ► still the same [TS]

00:56:35 ◼   ► that sounds about right it's a book [TS]

00:56:37 ◼   ► about supernatural now it's the [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► novelization absolutely you know maybe [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► it's only that's easier if you watch the [TS]

00:56:43 ◼   ► show opening tom and so yeah i know i'm [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► just going to talk to myself now [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► no it's a book called the devil you know [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► by a writer named mike carey mike carey [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► cut his teeth doing vertigo comics [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► including of a very [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► popular run on Lucifer which is branches [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► off the story from neil gaiman's sandman [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► about the the devil and he is the author [TS]

00:57:05 ◼   ► of the unwritten which we talked about [TS]

00:57:06 ◼   ► my comic book club episode I'm said I [TS]

00:57:08 ◼   ► seconds i'm just i'm reading that now [TS]

00:57:10 ◼   ► oh it's good yes it's very good i like [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► it i like it it's like a better version [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► of the magicians and so little richmond [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► Christ so I'm gonna pick I'm gonna pick [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► the w know which is the first in his [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► series about Felix fix caster who is a [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► freelance exorcist and i love this book [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► because it is again as sort of with [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► altered carbon which I talked about the [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► top of the top of the show it's very nor [TS]

00:57:34 ◼   ► its so basically sub out you know [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► Humphrey Bogart as a private eye for [TS]

00:57:39 ◼   ► this you know slightly schlubby guy who [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► you know wanders around and dispatches [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► ghosts or alternatively does magic at [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► children's parties to me to pay the [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► bills but he gets roughed up like all [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► your new our heroes and he always [TS]

00:57:51 ◼   ► stumbles upon these things which are [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► somehow going on that are even bigger [TS]

00:57:54 ◼   ► and I just I love it's so well drawn in [TS]

00:57:58 ◼   ► the world is so well drawn it all takes [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► place in London and there's there's i [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► think five books so far and they kind of [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► build there is sort of an ongoing plot [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► that involves his best friend who has [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► been possessed by an extremely powerful [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► demon and there are some interesting [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► characters and and the plus that develop [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► along the course of these books some of [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► them are better than others but i think [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► most of them are actually really good [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► and if you like sort of mysteries and [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► enjoy any sort of supernatural ghost [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► story type thing [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► it's an excellent excellent pic i love [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► the fact that every exorcist has to have [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► their own particular stick sort of for [TS]

00:58:38 ◼   ► dealing like none of them can really [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► explain how their powers work but they [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► have some method that works for them and [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► for fix it say he carries around a tin [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► whistle and uses music to sort of [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► ensnare the ghosts and and send them on [TS]

00:58:50 ◼   ► to their final resting place and it's [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► one of the few books that actually start [TS]

00:58:53 ◼   ► to get a little bit philosophical about [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► like the heck to these guys go after we [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► dispatch them like this and what does [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► that all mean so it's a it's a great [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► great series books highly recommend it [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► alright the devil you know my carry [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► let's go to a serenity Caldwell ok [TS]

00:59:10 ◼   ► my next book on the list is carl sagan's [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► contact which is actually been made into [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► a film that's actually half decent but I [TS]

00:59:20 ◼   ► i really love how about Jason that's I [TS]

00:59:24 ◼   ► like moving [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► I like it the movie has good point it's [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► not it's not a perfect film but it has a [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► lot of really really nice visualizations [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► so the novel contact for people who [TS]

00:59:38 ◼   ► haven't read it is basically about [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► scientists and first contact with an [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► alien species and how aliens might [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► contact us and trying to get the world [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► to believe that they actually have [TS]

00:59:53 ◼   ► contacted us at how that related to [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► faith and gets mired in all those fun [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► faith and gets mired in all those fun [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► fun subjects i love this book again I [TS]

01:00:03 ◼   ► mean female protagonists always a good [TS]

01:00:05 ◼   ► thing especially when they're pretty [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► awesome but in addition its I like how [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► this book makes you question faith and [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► fate and moments in time I as a kid I [TS]