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What I Saw at the Revolution
Peggy Noonan
“the first like real good writing advice i remember getting was this book”
“the first like real good writing advice i remember getting was this book by peggy noonan called what i sought the revolution”— Michael Malice
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A Hunger Artist
Franz Kafka
“one of my probably favorite short stories”
“a hunger artist one of my probably favorite short stories is that kind of a short story”— Lex Fridman
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“my favor of his books”
“dostoevsky wrote in the idiot my favor of his books through the main character prince mishkin that beauty will save the world”— Lex Fridman
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The White Pill
Michael Malice
“i talk about this endlessly this book the white pill but writing about when people do hurtful things to children”— Michael Malice
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Dear Reader
Michael Malice
“when i was writing dear reader the north korea book my friends are sick of hearing all these north korean anecdotes”— Michael Malice
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The Anarchist Handbook
Michael Malice
“when i dropped anarchist handbook in may and it was the top non-fiction book on amazon for like most of the day”— Michael Malice
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The Machiavellians
James Burnham
“you often bring up the book uh machiavellians by james burnham and uh so as i was looking through i was reading different parts”— Lex Fridman
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Six Word Memoirs
Larry Smith (inferred)
“there's this book called six word memoirs right where all these different personalities are awesome were you in it”— Michael Malice
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
“and the same i mean the stranger too i mean these like um i'm sure i'm trying to scramble here for books”— Lex Fridman
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Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“no uh notes from underground so obviously this desk has a huge amount of plot in in most of his work”— Lex Fridman
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
“but to me it's like saying animal farm doesn't need to be read because it's an obvious story”— Michael Malice
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
“i guess metamorphosis doesn't really have a plot yeah but when there's like crawling around it's like a vignette”— Michael Malice
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
“you ready kerouac any of this stuff i have on the road i read and i read a biography of him”— Lex Fridman
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The Virtue of Nationalism
Yoram Hazony
“he wrote a book called the virtue of nashville i read that book and then actually did a podcast with them”— Michael Malice
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The Guillotine at Work
G.P. Maximoff (inferred)
“i just read like you know some book called the guillotine at work which was an early book attacking lenin”— Michael Malice
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Her
Spike Jonze (inferred)
“the movie her yes of course so there's that one scene it's when um what is it joaquin who's the lead character”— Lex Fridman
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Leon: The Professional
Luc Besson (inferred)
“you ever seen leon like the professional that uh with natalie portman that movie it's like i have a pull-up thing”— Lex Fridman
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GoBots Scooter
Tonka
“tonka robots that turn into vehicles so when you there when i was a kid you had transformers but for us poor people you had gobots”— Michael Malice
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