Great Unread Books

From TLDR to DNF, we celebrate the books that for one reason or another we left behind.

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  Great Unread Books

  Be A Player (2017) by Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott

  Oct 12, 20261h 1mS0

  <p><b>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.</b></p><p>This week, Robin and Alex tackle Be a Player by Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott, the acclaimed coaches behind the VISION54 method. Alex explains his increasingly obsessive relationship with golf, while Robin investigates why perfect technique on the driving range so often falls apart on the course.</p><p>Al...

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  American Lion (2008) by John Meacham

  Aug 28, 202648 minS1

  <h1>American Lion: Andrew Jackson, Dad Books and the Great Man Problem</h1><p>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.</p><p>What remains is a vivid sense of a personality — and a latent confusion over a period of American history that's messy, confusing and hard to get your head around. Is the coziness of a Dad book really appropriate, though, for a man who marched thousands of people to...

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  Why is so much "good" historical fiction boring?

  Aug 7, 202656 minS1

  <p>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?</p><p>Robin guides Alex through Nino Haratischwili’s thousand-page family saga: eight lives spanning revolution, Stalinism, exile, the collapse of the Soviet Union—and a cursed recipe for hot chocolate. Along the way, they ask whether magical realism improves historical fiction, why prestigious historical novels can feel less inviting than genre fiction, and whether Alex bought The Eighth Life to read it or si...

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  "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

  Aug 4, 202651 minS1

  <p>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</p><p>Robin and Alex explore the perilously high stakes of buying flowers, hosting dinner parties and pretending to have read books to impress people. Along the way, they celebrate Woolf’s astonishing sentences, question whether anything actually happens in Mrs Dalloway, quarrel with the Guardian’s 100 greatest novels, and diagnose Alex’s deeper problem: he may not like fiction. Finally, Robin make...

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  Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile 1974-1978 (2018) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  Jul 23, 202656 minS0

  <p>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 Solzhenitsyn’s account of his first four years in Western exile. They trace his extraordinary journey from the Soviet prison system to literary fame, his bewildering arrival amid the Western media circus, and his growing frustration with the society that had celebrated him as a dissident.Why did the author of...

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