Bookbabble Episode 12: Collective Human Knowledge Gone Wilde!
Recorded 5 July 2008
Babblers: Lars, Gem, Katherine, Donny, with special guest Renee Wallace
Synopsis:
The babblers are joined by a special guest, Renee Wallace, more popularly known as Irene Wilde, in a discussion about the collective knowledge that is captured in books, and how we are accessing this store of information and knowledge and whether it is being accessed at all. Also, the wonderful story of the Christmas Truce, serialized story by Benjamin Black (aka John Banville), and Internet book catalog sites.
Synopsis:
This episode was a leisurely-paced show where the babblers mull about what would constitute a good book. A great many books were mentioned in this podcast, and you get a full short story thrown in for good measure! Also, our resident Harry Potter correspondent comes up with the goods again, and Bjorn is true to form with his thought-provoking idle rambling.
Books mentioned in this episode:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C Foster
How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide, John Sutherland
A Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Wuthering Heights
Gone with the Wind
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow
Asylum Piece, Anna Kaven
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago
Demian, Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Legends
Legends II
The Overcoat, Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
White Nights, Doestoyevsky
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Black Monk, Anton Chekov
Chess, Stefan Zweig
The Death of Ivan Illyich
Answer, Friedich Brown
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
Cutting It Short, Bohumil Hrabal
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Victor Pelevin and Andrew Bromfield
The Sea, John Banville
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
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