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Timely! Engineer Mike and Nina talk about the book on which the hit Netflix show is based. It's a "whammer" of book, but how far did Nina get?
Digressions: throuples, teaching genital mutilation to our children, terrible Netflix movies, modern anti-intellectual parallels, Game of Thrones, are translators authors, and bad followups to great books
Engineer Mike is reading: The Martian and Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Nina is reading: A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
Further reading about the Chinese Cultural Revolution:
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-was-the-cultural-revolution-195607
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