Ben Walker
Electric Sheep
Do you want to get everything you ever wanted & live your best life? Then you're going to have to read hard, wide & free. Together, let's learn how to read & write by analysing the best works ever written, and then some. How do writers do it - keep readers turning the page until they finish the book or throw it across the room? Each episode looks at one book, its first line and a standout section where there's a lesson to be learned about writing. Dissecting writers' language, genre and how their work fits into a greater context can help us understand other people and ourselves. x
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16 oct. 2024
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Nam by Mark Baker 10.05.2022 15:22
An uncompromising collection of first-person accounts of the Vietnam War. Brutal and honest, this is what war really looks like.
The Robber Barons vs. The Myth of the Robber Barons 23.02.2021 28:36
by Matthew Josephson and Burton W. Folsom Jr. It helps to look to history to figure out today. If you want to understand what's going on in the tech industry right now, one of the few parallels is the Gilded Age - late 1800s to early 1900s America. Things were as crazy back then as they are today and both these books give interesting insights into the pandemonium wrought by the industrial re...
Forgotten Voices of the Second World War by Max Arthur 29.01.2021 16:00
Insane accounts of war by regular people who lived through it. Wanna see how to act in a crisis? Then read this book.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck 09.12.2020 19:15
A sprawling epic covering two families over 50 years at the turn of the 20th century in Salinas California.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 30.11.2020 14:06
Super sick vision of the future by one of the smartest dudes to ever live. How about some sex, drugs, and centrifugal bumble-puppy?
The Acts of King Arthur by John Steinbeck 02.11.2020 12:09
Epic tales of olde told by one of the true wizards.
Burmese Days by George Orwell 24.10.2020 7:32
A brutally depressing love story set in the last days of the British Empire.
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 20.10.2020 11:22
A 2,500-year old treatise on how to kick muthafuckin ass.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 14.10.2020 19:41
The scariest book you'll ever read
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 07.10.2020 19:28
An awesome rocker's autobiography by one of the GOATs.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini 16.08.2020 15:08
Learn the science behind the most effective weapons of marketing and influence.
Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell 02.08.2020 10:49
A novel about the Welsh workers uprisings against the English steel barons in the early 1800s. Corny but awesome.
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell 02.08.2020 6:28
The master doing his thing.
A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins 10.07.2020 12:19
Easy-to-read quick little intro to England's history.
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 22.06.2020 12:59
A beautiful portrait of the brutal lives of coal miners and their families in Britain in the 1930s.
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 01.06.2020 18:15
The most effective counterargument to war you could ever imagine and one of the most affecting books I've ever read. Please please read this book once in your life.
How to See the World by Nicholas Mirzeoff 01.06.2020 15:50
If you want to know what Visual Culture is, then this book won't do much help. Confusing, bitter, and mildly interesting. Pretty much a critique of the West looking at the 20th/21st centuries through the images we use.
Batman: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo & Jonathan Glapion 23.05.2020 10:16
A sick Batman with one of the most f***ed-up Jokers there is. If you dig Batman, you gotta check it out. Deffo rated R though so be careful.
Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur 20.04.2020 20:07
And amazing account of WW1 told by the men and women who were actually there.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 19.03.2020 30:28
One of the gnarliest books about how far humans can miss the mark. So many hard lessons about life in here. Written by a true genius.
Screenplay by Syd Field 12.03.2020 17:45
if you want a book on screenplays then this is fuckin it
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 08.03.2020 16:08
Not the Tom Cruise one
The Kill Bill Diary by David Carradine 24.02.2020 8:26
A behind-the-scenes by the dude who plays Bill
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 18.02.2020 10:44
Dope little book full of imagination
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes 17.02.2020 30:32
The best book you can get on art in the 20th century
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