When Reading Got Fun, How Not to Impress Girls, & What Not to Read During Class

Table of (Mal)Contents

Dave and I are back in the studio while Barnabas is still off doing something else. So, we're joined by our friends, Nick Rynerson and James Kinnard, to talk about our reading through different seasons of life. Listen in as we discuss:

• How our reading habits grew and changed from high school through adulthood
• If teen boys will successfully impress girls by reading eastern philosophy
• Books we read in high school that we ended up liking
• What happens when a middle-schooler reads Camus
• If Bloomington counts as a suburb of Chicago
• The problem with self-appointed experts

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A few of the books we mention on this episode

• Herzog by Saul Bellow
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis

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