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Great Unread Books
by Alex and Robin
From TLDR to DNF, we celebrate the books that for one reason or another we left behind.
Episodes
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Be A Player (2017) by Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott
Can thinking less make you a better golfer—or at least a happier one? And can a non-golfer learn anything from one of the most highly influential golf books of the past five years? Robin finds out, to his golf-hating surprise, that the answer is yes. This week, Robin and Alex tackle Be a Player…
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American Lion (2008) by John Meacham
American Lion: Andrew Jackson, Dad Books and the Great Man Problem Robin's a Dad and American Lion, Jon Meacham's masterful and clever look at the seventh president of the U.S., Andrew Jackson, is very much a Dad book. He abandoned it at page 130 almost a decade ago. What remains is a vivid sense...
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Why is so much "good" historical fiction boring?
Alex loves history. He sort-of likes novels. He adores anything east of Germany and west of China. So what’s stopping him from even cracking open what was acclaimed as Georgia’s answer to War and Peace? Robin guides Alex through Nino Haratischwili’s thousand-page family saga: eight lives spanning...
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"Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf
The podcast becomes therapy as Robin reckons with one of the biggest lies about books he has ever told—and the guilt that has blocked him ever since from finishing Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness classic. NOTE: SPOILERS THROUGHOUT Robin and Alex explore the perilously high stakes of…
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Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile 1974-1978 (2018) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The books aren't getting any shorter, but the cuts are getting deeper. Alex rushed out to buy this book the moment it came out, having waited decades for a translation. He didn't make it past page 30. What happened?In this episode, Robin and Alexander explore Between Two Millstones, Alexander...
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960) by William Shirer
Alex and Robin take a fun trip to a Dad book classic, a history that sold 1 million copies when it was released and has since been attacked by almost every professional historian of Hitler in the 8 decades since.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014) by Thomas Piketty
We're coming into our new season with one of the best-selling economics books ever, the best-selling book ever from the Harvard University Press ever and a hall-of-famer. Has any book since the OG "Capital" (Marx's version) ever had this much impact while being read so little? The 1%... The evils...
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From TLDR to DNF, we celebrate the books that for one reason or another we left behind.
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Great Unread Books is created and hosted by Alex and Robin.
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