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Mark is enthusiastic about Brendan Kerner's skyjacking nonfiction The Skies Belong to Us. It's our first live show! Mark and Jon record in the same room for the first time ever. (We'd fooled you, hadn't we?) This episode we also talk about our most notable takeaways from the unplanned 'hiatus year', and--and!--we fulfill our long ago promise to each read a book recommended by the other that is outside our comfort zones. Oh, they were.
Derek Landy's Skullduggery Pleasant series
Jon's original recommendation of The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The beep you hear around this point is Jon's phone letting him know how things are going in Clash of Clans; they're going well, thanksEnthusiasticast Episode 88Christopher Priest's The Adjacent and The Prestige
The movie version of The Prestige
Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men
Brad Stone's The Everything Store
Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919, The War That Ended Peace
Ian Buruma's Year Zero
Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl
Jeannette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper
Our discussion of Never Let Me Go
Our discussion of Jodi Picoult, re: Franzenfreude
Jodi Picoult's book about a school shooting is Nineteen Minutes
Brendan Kerner's The Skies Belong To Us
Howard Marks believes that he is Mr. Nice
Mark is enthusiastic about Neil Gaiman's latest The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also discuss whether Brad Pitt is entitled to a victory lap for his adaptation of a show-favourite novel, Max Brooks' World War Z. We cover:
Our initial discussion of WWZ
Brad Pitt eating
The Vanity Fair...
Published 09/10/13
Jon endorses Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken.
We also mention:
Military Scifi
Ender's Game and Movie
John Scalzi's Old Man's War
John Steakley's Armor
Hiroshi Sakurazaka's All You Need Is Kill
Joe Haldeman's The Forever War
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers
Stanislaw Lem's Return from...
Published 07/14/13
Mark feels the love for the godfather of soul behavioural economic theory.
We mention:
Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow; his Wikipedia page; his TED talk.
Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper
Franzenfreude
Doris Lessing's The Golden...
Published 06/30/12