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All the Pretty Horses

Cormac McCarthy ISBN 1447202783

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This book by Cormac McCarthy came up once on Joe Rogan in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Roger Waters. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

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All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Joe Rogan Experience #1878 - Roger Waters

“if you haven't you should it's a fantastic book”
“my experience with Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses I don't know if you've read that novel but if you haven't you should it's a fantastic book”— Roger Waters

The guest here is Roger Waters: Co-founder, bassist and principal songwriter of Pink Floyd, now a solo touring artist and outspoken political and human-rights activist. Pink Floyd's Roger Waters on Israel-Palestine apartheid, the Ukraine war, media propaganda, Syd Barrett's tragic decline, and doing the right thing.

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