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DNF LIST pt1: AI Jodorowsky book? Ay, I'd rather eat a bag of sh!t than listen to that · Midnight Movie Theatre

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  Speaker 1: Dang. What's up with all these books? Okay, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start a DNF list. And if you think that
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  Speaker 1: that stands for do not fuck. You're wrong. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: a did not finish list. So I've been reading a
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  Speaker 1: lot of books lately and I feel like this is
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  Speaker 1: something I might as well do. I think I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to put out an ongoing D and F list
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  Speaker 1: books that I did not finish for one reason or another.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be part one. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: the books that I'm reading are going to be the
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  Speaker 1: audiobook version, and that's because it's the only way for
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  Speaker 1: me to really have time to read right now. This
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  Speaker 1: is the only way I'm going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: finish books in a timely manner. Occasionally, I will still
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  Speaker 1: make time for a physical read, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: even for some of the shorter books that I've read lately,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a challenge. So I've broke it down by platform.
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  Speaker 1: I'm either listening to books on Libby, which is a
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  Speaker 1: free audio book app where you can basically rent books
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  Speaker 1: through your library. If they have the audio book or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, you can rent it for free for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. And it's really awesome. Like if
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  Speaker 1: they have the books you're looking for, it's great. It's
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  Speaker 1: great not having to pay for the shit. Then there's Audible.
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  Speaker 1: I do have an Audible subscription that I am on
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  Speaker 1: and off with and as well as Spotify. So Spotify is,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I use it for music mostly, but when
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  Speaker 1: I realized they had audio books, I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of cool. The only thing that kind
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  Speaker 1: of fucking sucks about it is you get 15 hours
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  Speaker 1: a month. And I mean, I specifically look for books
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  Speaker 1: that are 15 hours or less usually if I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be listening to it on Spotify. Just because it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of frustrating if you do really get into a
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  Speaker 1: book and all of a sudden you hit your 15
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  Speaker 1: hour limit and say it's like a 40 hour book
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. You got to wait a month
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  Speaker 1: to pick back up. But you can pay like 15
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  Speaker 1: extra dollars and get another fucking 15 hours, which is
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  Speaker 1: dumb as hell because Audible usually has the books for
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  Speaker 1: sale for less than that. And you can just buy
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  Speaker 1: the whole fucking book right off the bat. So Spotify
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  Speaker 1: is just kind of there because it is because of
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  Speaker 1: the music, basically. And then it's like, well, it's an
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  Speaker 1: easy way to check out some books. that I'm not
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  Speaker 1: so sure about, I guess. So I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: go in order, in the order that I have them here,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll start with Libby. So the first book on
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  Speaker 1: my list is the book This Might Save Your Life.
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  Speaker 1: This is a novel by Tiffany Crum. I haven't read
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  Speaker 1: any of her other books yet. It has 3.8 on
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  Speaker 1: Goodreads out of 170,000 ratings. So a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: read this book. It was one of those that was
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  Speaker 1: just recommended to me, you know, like on a homepage.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, that sounds kind of neat.
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  Speaker 1: Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host one of the most
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  Speaker 1: beloved podcasts in the world. Each week, they delight listeners
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  Speaker 1: with a different against all odds survival story. Gleefully finding
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  Speaker 1: the weird life affirming humor and near death experiences. Since
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  Speaker 1: their first episode on Joy's experience with severe narcolepsy, They've
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  Speaker 1: been the best friends everyone wants to befriend. And thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the meticulous management of Joy's husband, Xander, they've built
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  Speaker 1: a lucrative empire. The problem is their next survival story
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  Speaker 1: may be their own. When Benny arrives at Joy and
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  Speaker 1: Xander's one morning to record, he finds shattered glass in
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  Speaker 1: an empty house. The one clue shedding light on the
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  Speaker 1: couple's disappearance is the incomplete, previously unseen first draft of
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  Speaker 1: Joy's memoir. Benny will stop at nothing to find them,
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  Speaker 1: even as the police zero in on him as their
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  Speaker 1: prime suspect. Millions of devoted listeners think they know the
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  Speaker 1: real Benny and Joy, but as the hours tick by
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  Speaker 1: and the odds seem increasingly stacked against Joy and Xander
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  Speaker 1: being found alive, not even the most devoted fans could
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  Speaker 1: guess the terrible secrets their favorite famous bffs have hidden
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  Speaker 1: from the world and from each other i didn't get
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  Speaker 1: too far into it it might have literally been like
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  Speaker 1: a for a few chapters i can't remember for sure
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  Speaker 1: i'd have to go back and look it's a 357
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  Speaker 1: page book so not like a super long read or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that uh i might finish this one this
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  Speaker 1: is i have this one as like a maybe i
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  Speaker 1: like a good mystery and i like a good suspense
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  Speaker 1: I think just the way it was building up was
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  Speaker 1: kind of off-putting for me right away. But it might
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  Speaker 1: be one of those where you need to get into
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  Speaker 1: it a little more. I feel like there was a
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  Speaker 1: period when I first started getting into listening to audiobooks
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  Speaker 1: specifically where a lot of the recommended books on Libby,
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  Speaker 1: especially like this one was recommended on Libby, were this
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  Speaker 1: style of mystery or suspense where it feels like they're
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  Speaker 1: just doing too much. Like it's doing too much to try.
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  Speaker 1: To be mysterious. Instead of... I wish it was just
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  Speaker 1: relying on the writing and the storytelling. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how else to say it. It just feels like every
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  Speaker 1: chapter is a cliffhanger. And, you know, that does kind
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  Speaker 1: of move you through the book at a decent pace.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, it feels a little cheap.
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  Speaker 1: And the characters and the story itself aren't really what's
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  Speaker 1: getting me into the book. It's just a lack of information.
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  Speaker 1: And I... I get that that's a style and that's
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  Speaker 1: probably how a lot of mystery books are and whatnot,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know how else to say it. It
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't doing it for me. I felt like I was,
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  Speaker 1: I had read several books like this. It's almost like
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  Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of like a freedom McFadden or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. There's a couple other books that I
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  Speaker 1: read like this early on that were just a little
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  Speaker 1: disappointing when it, when it came right down to it.
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  Speaker 1: Cause you get through, you're going through the whole book
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  Speaker 1: expecting like some sort of crazy reveal. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: like some off the wall bullshit. That's like not satisfying
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  Speaker 1: in any way. It's just like, Oh yeah, it's actually
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  Speaker 1: Xander's twin brother that we never knew about or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. And it's kind of like, God fucking damn it.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if that's how this book ends.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just guessing. Obviously I haven't finished it, but it
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  Speaker 1: was one of those where it's just like, I have
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  Speaker 1: like an unknown cousin. Or like this completely unspoken person
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  Speaker 1: just comes out of nowhere and it's because of them
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  Speaker 1: that all this shit is happening. It's just kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. To me, that just doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: a very good story overall. But with that being said,
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  Speaker 1: there are several books like this that I have read
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  Speaker 1: that I actually did enjoy. And I thought like, whether
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  Speaker 1: it feels kind of cheesy or whatever or cheap, I
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  Speaker 1: still have enjoyed quite a few of these books. It
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  Speaker 1: almost feels like a guilty pleasure at times. So, I
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  Speaker 1: just don't think I was in the mood for one
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  Speaker 1: of those when I started this one. I'll probably get
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  Speaker 1: back to it maybe when I'm in that mood, when
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  Speaker 1: I'm wanting some corn. I need some fucking corn on
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  Speaker 1: the cob. I'm going to maybe pop this one back on.
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  Speaker 1: So that was This Story Might Save Your Life by
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  Speaker 1: Tiffany Crum on Libby. The next one is going to
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  Speaker 1: be my Audible pick. This was one of the featured
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  Speaker 1: books on Audible that you didn't have to pay for
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  Speaker 1: or use a credit for. So I was like, shit, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's throw it on. It's Alejandro Jodorowsky's By the Practical Atlas.
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  Speaker 1: So it's basically a book. It's supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: book about Alejandro Jodorowsky. He directed and wrote The Holy Mountain.
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  Speaker 1: If you've ever seen that movie, it's a wild ass
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  Speaker 1: fucking movie. Really great movie. Really interesting. You can tell
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  Speaker 1: this guy is probably just would be a super interesting
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  Speaker 1: person to learn about. Definitely has some strange behavior, some
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  Speaker 1: strange ideas. that are also very interesting and possibly somewhat enlightening.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like probably has some perspectives
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  Speaker 1: on life that would be worth listening to, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: And some that you'd probably not want to listen to.
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  Speaker 1: So Alejandro Jodorowsky, born in 1929, he dropped out of
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  Speaker 1: college to become a mime or a clown and to
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  Speaker 1: work in theater. He eventually worked on comic books as
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  Speaker 1: well as films, films such as El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Dune,
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  Speaker 1: and Tusk, Santa Sangre, and The Rainbow Thief. And he
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  Speaker 1: returned to film. So that all was from 1970 to 1990.
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  Speaker 1: Then he returned to film in 2011 with The Dance
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  Speaker 1: of Reality and Endless Poetry. I've only seen The Holy Mountain.
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  Speaker 1: And I know you're probably thinking, Dune, what the fuck?
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  Speaker 1: He didn't actually do the 80s version of Dune or
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  Speaker 1: 70s or 80s, whatever, whenever that came out. The David
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  Speaker 1: Lynch Dune. He was, I think, originally approached for that.
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  Speaker 1: And he has, there's like a documentary called... Jodorowsky's Dune
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  Speaker 1: or something like that. I think it just shows a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the ideas that he had for it. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of the drawings and whatever you call that storyboarding
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  Speaker 1: for it. And people, you know, wonder what would that
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  Speaker 1: have been like? Would that have been a science fiction masterpiece?
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  Speaker 1: The only movie I've seen of his is The Holy Mountain.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a really, really great movie. Very interesting,
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  Speaker 1: very surreal, unique film for sure. So I just put
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  Speaker 1: this on. I didn't really look. into it too much
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that. I just thought like, Oh, it'd
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  Speaker 1: be kind of fun to learn more about this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Why not just listen to a book about him? And
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  Speaker 1: right away I was turned off because I was like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is an AI read book. And
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  Speaker 1: then it confirmed it early on in the, in the book.
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  Speaker 1: And it just sounded, it sounded like shit. It sounded
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  Speaker 1: like a robot reading to me. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I don't think I can do this. The
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  Speaker 1: whole thing just felt very AI driven. It almost feels
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  Speaker 1: like this is what chat GPT would pull up if
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  Speaker 1: you asked for a, you know, a complete retelling of
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  Speaker 1: Alejandro Jodorowsky's life and work and stuff like that. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I think I would be better off just going. to
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  Speaker 1: Wikipedia and fucking reading about this guy rather than listening
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  Speaker 1: to this. I'm sure there's probably better podcasts done on
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  Speaker 1: this guy than this book. So I can't not recommend
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  Speaker 1: this book enough. If you want to learn about Jodorowsky,
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  Speaker 1: do it in a different way. Avoid the Audible book
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  Speaker 1: at all costs. It's AI slop. So the third and
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  Speaker 1: final book for my DNF list is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a Stephen King book, which is probably kind of surprising.
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  Speaker 1: I've been reading a lot of Stephen King and been
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  Speaker 1: trying to get through everything that I can. Really enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there just hasn't been a single disappointing
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  Speaker 1: book of his so far. And this one is one
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  Speaker 1: that I will finish for sure. So this is his
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  Speaker 1: 2006 book, Cell. It's about like, what if your cell
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  Speaker 1: phone turned you into a zombie and shit? I guess
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  Speaker 1: I haven't finished it, so I can't say for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I did get not even halfway through this one. It
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  Speaker 1: was when I kind of picked up on Spotify. It
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  Speaker 1: was right after I had finished The Stand. And I
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  Speaker 1: think I just needed a break from Stephen King at
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  Speaker 1: the time, or at least like from this type of
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  Speaker 1: like apocalyptic story. Anyway, I was looking for something a
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  Speaker 1: little different. So I am going to go back to
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  Speaker 1: this one probably fairly soon. It starts off great. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the opening and everything, really interesting. I thought the characters
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  Speaker 1: were really well done. I don't have anything bad to
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  Speaker 1: say about it. It's just one of those where I
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  Speaker 1: was a little, I needed something different at the time.
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  Speaker 1: So Cell is officially on my DNF list. The only
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  Speaker 1: other Stephen King book, well, I'll save it for another episode.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to give all the goods away in
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  Speaker 1: the DNF list part one. But anyway, yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: cell phone apocalypse story. There's like the main character, Clayton Riddle.
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  Speaker 1: He's a graphic artist separated from his family in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: And so what they call this whole apocalypse, whatever is
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  Speaker 1: going on with the cell phones, it's the pulse. And
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  Speaker 1: it just starts turning people into like almost 28 Days
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  Speaker 1: Later style of zombies. And I don't know if they
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  Speaker 1: ever call them zombies or not, but basically they just
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  Speaker 1: turn into raging zombies. and start tearing people apart in
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  Speaker 1: front of this guy. And he's just kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: what the fuck? He starts fighting off these zombies. He's
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  Speaker 1: also trying to keep his drawings intact because he just
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  Speaker 1: got like basically his first big break as an illustrator.
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  Speaker 1: And he starts heading north to try to reunite with
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  Speaker 1: his son and wife. That's pretty much the gist of it.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the point where he had like met
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  Speaker 1: up with a group of people that were also going
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  Speaker 1: with him basically. And, you know, One of the highlights
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  Speaker 1: of all Stephen King stories are his characters. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like this one was definitely heading in that direction
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  Speaker 1: where I was like, okay, we got some, we got
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  Speaker 1: some cool shit going. We got some cool shit going
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  Speaker 1: on here. So that's it for DNF list one, stay
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  Speaker 1: tuned for a DNF list number two, which will probably
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  Speaker 1: be coming out sometime next month. We'll keep this thing going.
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  Speaker 1: I do have quite a few books on this list already.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like It's just going to keep growing.
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  Speaker 1: So I might as well get these out. So, so
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  Speaker 1: far we had this story might save your life. I'll
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  Speaker 1: probably finish that book when I feel like reading some
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  Speaker 1: straight cheese, Alejandro Yodorovsky by the practical Atlas, never going
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  Speaker 1: to recommend, never going to finish really, really, uh, didn't
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  Speaker 1: enjoy my experience with the, the short amount of time
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  Speaker 1: that I spent with it, uh, kind of pissed off
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  Speaker 1: about it being on audible to be completely honest, just
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  Speaker 1: felt like a big waste of time for anyone. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally, Sell by Stephen King, which I'll probably finish
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  Speaker 1: that one for sure. I feel like that's just going
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  Speaker 1: to be a must read for me at some point.
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  Speaker 1: So thanks for tuning in. Good night.