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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Psychopath Test A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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Jon Ronson
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, December 07, 2016
The Psychopath Test will ask more questions than it answers, but it is a fascinating story of madness and how it influences politics, business, medicine, and culture. For instance, the percentage of people with psychopathy is one in one hundred, but the percentage of CEOs with psychopathy is one in five. What does that tell you about how our world is run?
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Feet of Clay: Discworld 19
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Terry Pratchett
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, December 07, 2016
Some of the Discworld novels are based around central ideas, while others appear to have been written around puns (see Soul Music). This book is especially pun-heavy. The Watch makes inquiries of the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker. Oh, and the vampire that creates Coat of Arms shows Vimes who dunnit right in the beginning of the book by showing him a cryptic Coat of Arms, but Vimes doesn’t put together the puns until the end. That isn’t to say there isn’t a point. The story is basically about freedom. It focuses a lot on kingship. The golums try to make themselves a king that should teach them about freedom, rule with wisdom, and create peace and justice for all. That’s what a king should do, but when it’s a golum, it tries to do exactly that just right, which is impossible, so lots of things go wrong. It’s a comment on our expectations. And then it’s also about slavery. The masses believe that golums are not alive despite that the golums think they’re alive. Yet, when one golum tries to free the other golums, they just go back to work. The point is summed up in the line spoken by Dorfl: “You Say To People ‘Throw Off Your Chains’ And They Make New Chains For Themselves.”
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How I Escaped My Certain Fate The Life & Deaths of a Stand Up Comedian Stewart Lee
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Stewart Lee
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, October 02, 2015
Stewart Lee's introduction to How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian is by far the best written history of modern British alternative comedians. I keep buying all these books like Sunshine on Putty and British Cult Comedy written by writers but they don't it anything close to what Lee accomplishes by (a) having been there, (b) having a high level of writerly sophistication, and (c) describing his comedy colleagues in a way that suggests he's not afraid to laud or offend. If you ever wondered why Lee quit standup, what he did in his lost years besides Jerry Springer: The Opera, you get that story, told in a no-holds-bard, colorful description only Stewart Lee could effect. But more than "I did this, then I did that," he has a pulled-back view of the industry at the time, as it was the changes in said industry--audience expectation, television, costs, management companies, Janet Street-Porter calling comedy the new rock'n'roll--that drove him out. Lee is not hesitant to name game changers by name, and who influenced whom. He pinpoints Ted Chippington, Simon Munnery, and David Baddiel all as being either extraordinarily influential or even "genius." You get a real sense of circuit comedy and club life and what awards really mean. The big piece of proof that the comedy industry had changed was when, during Lee's absence from the scene, Ricky Gervais became wildly famous doing essentially the same schtick that no one wanted to see from Lee back when he was touring. What people had wanted from comedy had shifted, and Gervais was there at the right time to cash in on it, while Lee had gotten in too early and got out before it became commercially viable. --Anglonerd.com
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