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Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens
“is a great read”
“his autobiography hitch 22 is a great read and i just want to say like what you discover there”— Lex Fridman
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
“one of the most profound works i've ever come across”
“i read ernest becker's denial of death which i found and still find to be one of the most profound works i've ever come across”— David Wolpe
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
“my favorite novel”
“my favorite novel is middle march so much middle march”— David Wolpe
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Herzog
Saul Bellow
“i also love i love soul bello especially herzog”
“i also love i love soul bello especially herzog but but it's a very different kind of uh of thinking person's novel”— David Wolpe
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
“really really love”
“you mentioned one of them which is viktor frankl's man's search for meaning um and i also really really love heschel's the sabbath”— David Wolpe
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The Sabbath
Abraham Joshua Heschel
“really really love heschel's the sabbath i think it's a beautiful book”
“i also really really love heschel's the sabbath i think it's a beautiful book very sh it's very short book”— David Wolpe
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Why Faith Matters
David Wolpe
“you wrote in your book why faith matters quote walt whitman wrote that in order for there to be a great books there must be great readers”— Lex Fridman
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god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
“the idea that you would call a book that religion poisons everything um i think he did that deliberately provocatively”— David Wolpe
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Exodus
Richard Elliott Friedman
“i think richard elliott friedman may have gotten this right in his book exodus it may have been the levites who left”— David Wolpe
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Letters from the Earth
Mark Twain
“mark twain has i think in letters from earth he says we're going to lie on green fields and listen to harp music”— David Wolpe
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“your guests said the two greatest novels of the 19th century were uh were brothers karamazov and uh what was the other one”— David Wolpe
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March of the Penguins
Luc Jacquet (inferred)
“there's that movie march of the penguins and they're all huddling together in the cold yeah this is this is fundamentally human”— Lex Fridman
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