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2 books recommended · 2 episodes
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Now, you know, you know, I'm a sucker for a sad story for a sad child. And Robert Service has a wonderful book on Trotsky and he has this observation that his mum wasn't exactly, you know, sort of apple pie and hugs because as a toddler, he had, you know, fainting blackouts.”
Trotsky by Robert Service
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“She'd write a fascinating book called 20 Letters to a Friend about life with a monstrous father and an unhinged mother.”
Why: Fascinating book about life with a monstrous father and an unhinged mother.
20 Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva
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