Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Book podcast?

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to doomed to fail. My name is Taylor and every week my friend Fars and I bring you stories about history's greatest disasters and epic failures and interesting relationship tidbits and I wanted to tell you a bit about some shows we have about literature, books, authors, that kind of thing. I am a big reader. Fars is not, but I am. I'm currently in my Romantic era, I am on book three of Throne of Glass, including the prequel. So the fourth one. Anyway, I want to die. I'm having, I'm angry.

Starting point is 00:00:43 Anyone want to call me if you're exactly where I am? Let me know. Doomed develop pod at gmail.com. If you have just started, which one I just started, air on fire. Because I'm overwhelmed, I'm overwhelmed. Anyway, we have some episodes about other authors and other stories, and I'm going to tell you about them. Episode 7, Part 1, is about Oscar Wilde. So I had known that Oscar Wilde existed, but didn't know details of his life.

Starting point is 00:01:12 We'll talk about his lover who was his downfall and how he, like, went to court for being gay and then could have just left to France and just, like, been gay in France, but decided not to, and that sort of is how he died. So interesting. and yeah let me know episode 23 part one i'm mary shelley delightful i mean this poor freaking woman she was as you know a teen when she wrote frankestine because it was the year without a summer which we learned from our volcano series but it was gray in geneva and so they had like a horror story writing contest with lord byron who is insufferable her sister who was definitely sleeping with her husband their husband dies and mary shelley keeps his heart at her desk for the rest of her life. Hell yeah. Love that for her. So, you know,

Starting point is 00:02:03 listen to that one. Episode 79, I talk about Carl May. He is a German author who wrote about Native Americans in the United States Wild West, and it's still like a huge cultural thing in Germany. There's some languages I heard that are like ancient Native American languages that are spoken in Germany, like nowhere else. They just like love it. So there's more. more about that episode 97 is about agatha christie we did this one when kate middleton was missing and i know that we shouldn't have done that but also it was a fun time time and she's fine um but agatha christie also went missing and she went missing because her husband was cheating on her and she like went to the hotel they were at it's super fun like she crashed her car

Starting point is 00:02:50 and pretended all these things and i just love that unhingedness of her episode 125 is on Pogio Bracolini he is a man who found a lot of ancient text and like if think about it you're like how do we even have this stuff like how do we know anything about ancient history and we don't even if it isn't true you have to believe it as Dan Carlin quotes someone else saying all the time but Pogio Braculini went to monasteries where stuff had been saved like copied over and over again and he found Lucretius the art of I have it on the nature, no, on the nature of things, which is hard to read, I tried, but it's cool. That's how they found a lot of ancient stuff, is people just going into these archives and finding

Starting point is 00:03:36 things, which is also, I'm sorry, but what is happening in all of these romantic books? There's always a freaking library full of amazing stuff. Like, I don't know, lock me up, put me in a library forever. Anyway, then, episode 149 on Hans Christian Anderson. This guy is kind of nuts. um in like many different ways there was a time when he like stayed at charles dickinson's house and wouldn't leave and like got a better view and like spent hours in the front yard crying and charles dickinson and his family were like or charles dickens sorry and family were like

Starting point is 00:04:10 this is super embarrassing we don't want you here what are you doing um so fun um then we talk about the brothers grim in episode 152 they were actually working on cataloging the german language So they did that, like, how words evolved and all of those things, and they got a lot of their stories from women who have been told the stories by their grandmothers. So super fun. Then I have episode 153 on Dr. Seuss. So a little bit about the man behind all of that where he had worked in, you know, in the American military, the political messages in some of his works, the controversies, that sort of thing. Then episode 170, is on Jeffrey Chaucer, and again, you will imagine a knight's tale when you hear of Chaucer, if you're a millennial, elder woman, millennial, and it's super fun. You can also learn about the peasants revolt that happened in London. We have another episode on that. I think it's around 174, but when the peasants kind of rushed into London, they went under

Starting point is 00:05:18 a gate, like an old gate, because London was a walled city, all the things, and they went under Chaucer's house. So he was, like, living in history. So I don't know if that's like, but, you know. And then finally, episode 195 is about the men who wrote the dictionary. Because, yeah, there wasn't a dictionary. I mean, there was and there wasn't. But, like, similar to the Brothers Grimm, like, at some point,

Starting point is 00:05:38 someone has to start writing down where language came from. And so there's this dude, and he was working on it. And then he asked for volunteers. And then some guy was, like, I'll volunteer. it turns out this guy was in a in a mental asylum for murder um but also he was like very smart and there's a movie sean pen and mug up center in it it's a movie um but yeah it's super interesting anyway books i love them what's your favorite book let me know dune chip l pod at gmail.com mine is probably um the stand i i love the i love the stand maybe i should read that again

Starting point is 00:06:18 I don't know if you read it, Stephen King, obviously. One thing that I love about Stephen King is that he anticipates the questions that I have about what's going to come next. Whenever I read his books, I'm always like, Hardington was going to ask that. I'm looking at my collection of Stephen King books as I'm talking. Tommy Knockers, honestly, had a thing in it where I felt terror through my body, like for no reason. I was just like, so good. And then it, I obviously have it.

Starting point is 00:06:44 And we've talked about this on the show before. Who knows where we mentioned it. but many, many years ago, and Fars and I first met, before my husband came to L.A., I moved here a month before him, and I was at a diner by myself reading it on my Kindle, and something happened, and I was so scared that I threw my Kind of, like, across the diner, and it was wonderful. Yeah, read some stamen. A computer cut off because I was talking so much. Reads and Stephen King books, if you haven't.

Starting point is 00:07:12 Let me know your favorites. Doomedafelpod at gmail.com. Find us at doomed to fell pot at all at social media. media. Thank you for your time.

Doomed to Fail - Can you recommend a Book podcast?

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