Let's talk about books!!! What are you reading! What's your favorite book????? Ep 7 - Part 1: Dorian Gray-t Expectations - Oscar Wilde's wild ride Ep 23 - Part 1: Our Lady of the Night - Mary Shelley Ep 79 - Germany's love affair w/ 1st Nation culture: The story of Karl May Ep 97 - A Famous British Woman is Missing!!!: It's Agatha Christie this time Ep 125 - Book Hunting in The Renaissance: Poggio Bracciolini Ep 149 - The Fairytale Man: Hans Christian Andersen Ep 152 - Grammar Nerds for the Ages: The Brothers Grimm Ep 153 - Silly Rhymes, Serious Messages: Dr. Seuss Ep 174: We're men, we're men in tights (Tight tights!) - Geoffrey Chaucer Ep 195: The men who wrote the Dictionary - Professor James Murray & Dr. W. C. Minor
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>> Taylor: Hello and welcome to Doomed to Fail. My name is Taylor and every week my friend Pharz 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 Romantasy 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. Anyone want to call me? If you're exactly where I am, let me know DoomedEvalPodmail.com if you have just started. Which one? I just started Air on fire because I'm over. I'm whelmed. I'm whelmed. Anyway, we have some episodes about other authors and other stories and I'm going to tell you about them. Episode seven, Part one, is about Oscar Wilde. So I had known that Oscar Wilde existed, but didn't know details of his life. And 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 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 Frankenstein, 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 dying, definitely sleeping with her husband. Then her husband dies and Mary Shelley keeps his heart at her desk for the rest of her life. H***, yeah. Love that for her. So, you know, listen to that one. Episode 79. I talk about Carl May. He is a German author who wrote about, like, 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 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. But Agatha Christie also went missing. And she went missing because her husband was cheating on her and she, like, went to the hotel that they were at. It's super fun. Like, she crashed her car and pretended all these things, and I just love that unhingedness of her. Episode 125 is on Poggio Bracciolini. He is a man who found a lot of ancient text. And, like, if you think about it, you're like, how do we even have this stuff? Like, how do we know anything about ancient history? And we do 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 Poggio Broccolini 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 find a lot of ancient stuff, is people just going into these archives and finding things, which is also. I'm sorry, but what is happening in all of these Romantasy books? There's always a freaking library full of amazing stuff. Like, I don't know, lock me up. Put me. What? Put me in a library forever.
Episode 149 on Hans Christian Andersen. Then we talk about the Brothers Grimm
Anyway, then episode 149 on Hans Christian Andersen. This guy is kind of nuts 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 Gerald Dickinson and his family were like. Or Charles Dickens. Sorry, Aunt Sam Lee. Were like, this. This is super embarrassing. We don't want you here. What are you doing? So fun. Then we talk about the Brothers Grimm. 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 had 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 174 is on Geoffrey Chaucer. And again, you will imagine a knight's tale when you. 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 100. But when the Peasants kind of rushed into London. They went under a gate, like an old gate, because London was a walled city, all the things. And they went, like, under Chaucer's house. So he was, like, living in history. So I don't know what 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, 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. But also, he was, like, very smart. And there's a movie. Sean Penn and Mug Upset are in it. It's a movie, but, yeah, it's super interesting.
What's your favorite Stephen King book? Let me know
Anyway, books. I love them. What's your favorite book? Let me know. dooomedtofailpod@gmail.com Mine is probably the Stand. I love. I love the Stand. Maybe I should read that again. I don't know if you've read it, but Stephen King, obviously. One thing that I love about Stephen King is that he anticipates the questions that I have about what's gonna come next. Whenever I read his books, I'm always like, how did you know? Who's gonna ask that? I'm looking at my collection of Stephen King books as I'm talking. Tommyknockers, 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. And we've talked about this on the show before. Who knows where we mentioned it, but many, many years ago, when Farz and I first met, before my husband came to la, 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 Kindle kind of, like, across the diner. And it was wonderful. Yeah, read some Steven. My computer cut off because I was talking so much. Read some Stephen King books. If you haven't, let me know your favorites. dooomedtofailpod@gmail.com find us at doomtophillpod and all social media. Thank you for your.