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One, Two, Three
Billy Wilder
“a very good movie”
“There's a movie by Billy Wilder called 1, 2, 3, a very good movie, and he shows... the American executive”— Norman Ohler
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Downfall
Oliver Hirschbiegel (inferred)
“one of my favorite movies”
“one of my favorite movies, probably Downfall, which is Hitler in the bunker”— Lex Fridman
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Terry Gilliam (inferred)
“some of the greatest movies”
“some of the greatest movies... I mean, like, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”— Lex Fridman
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
“which is a great book”
“Like Sapiens by Harari, which is a great book, he also misses that.”— Norman Ohler
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“your favorite? - Brothers Karamazov”
“Which one's your favorite? - Brothers Karamazov. Well, I read in both Russian and English.”— Lex Fridman
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
“he's a great writer. Fight Club influenced me quite a bit”
“he's a great writer. Fight Club influenced me quite a bit. I think the novel is even better, maybe, than the movie.”— Norman Ohler
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Fight Club
David Fincher (inferred)
“the movie's great”
“But the movie's great.”— Norman Ohler
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Ulysses
James Joyce
“Ulysses is good”
“it's Ulysses by James Joyce. Ulysses is good, but only when you're in your early 20s, living in New York”— Norman Ohler
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The Stranger
Albert Camus
“the most influential book, maybe, is The Stranger”
“the most influential book, maybe, is The Stranger by Camus. Because I like the language so much”— Norman Ohler
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
“one of the best novels of the 20th century... an absolute masterpiece”
“Thomas Pynchon, who wrote Gravity's Rainbow, which I think is one of the best novels of the 20th century... I think it's an absolute masterpiece.”— Norman Ohler
The guest's own work
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Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
Norman Ohler
“The following is a conversation with Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich.”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guest
Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
Norman Ohler
“He also wrote Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age.”— Lex Fridman
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Stoned Sapiens
Norman Ohler
“he's now working on a new book with the possible title of Stoned Sapiens, great title, looking at the history of human civilization through the lens of drugs”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guest
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Norman Ohler
“that's why I wrote the book, The Bohemians, because there were a few people in Berlin that didn't react this way”— Norman Ohler
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
“Kerouac is pretty cool. But he's an amphetamine writer. On the Road was apparently written in two weeks on amphetamines. And, but it's good.”— Norman Ohler
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Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
“Also, they were sentenced to prison, and Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison.”— Norman Ohler
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
“it's like in Animal Farm when the pigs discover alcohol. Animal Farm by George Orwell. There's no evidence that they drank.”— Norman Ohler
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
“one of the things you get from books like Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is that in the concentration camp actually, the slightest good things are so rich”— Lex Fridman
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
“on LSD, he basically had the idea to write One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He understood that these people maybe are not crazy.”— Norman Ohler
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“for the longest time, it was The Idiot. Until... It's a complicated philosophical issue.”— Lex Fridman
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I've recently been rereading all of Dostoevsky. So, going through Notes on the Underground, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov.”— Lex Fridman
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Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“going through Notes on the Underground, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov”— Lex Fridman
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Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry
“it also depends on the person. Like, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, he was drinking a lot.”— Norman Ohler
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
“When Nietzsche wrote Zarathustra and... - You can sense his presence a little bit?”— Norman Ohler
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