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Is Simon Birch the movie that was based on the book Owen Meany? Is that what it is?

I don't know if any of you all read, but he kind of reminds me of what Owen Meany looks like in the book, A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Because I read a book this year called, what's it called? Intermezzo. It was by Sally Rooney. It's like a fiction book. And it's very good. And it's got two main characters. And one of the main characters is a lawyer. And one of the main characters is a chess player. And the chess player is, like they give him, have like a heart of gold. But he's a little bit like socially awkward.

I tried to read a little bit of Sally Rooney Intermezzo, but it wasn't getting me like calm.

He had a son named Hamnet who died at the age of 11. ... They made a movie about the writing of Hamlet.

They believe, although they don't know for sure, that Hamlet was based on his son Hamnet's death.

one of the best picture nominees is Hamnet, which also won awards as a book just three or four years ago.

It's about how Shakespeare, when he was writing Hamlet, he had a kid die. Yeah. And so, he's writing about the kid dying, how it affected his writing of Hamlet.

Nickel Boys. I don't know about that. That sounds like something maybe I might want to watch.

I read the book a long time ago by Colson Whitehead. I think you would like it.

It chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African-American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

Nickel Boys. No.

A lot of you have been asking me about the name of the book I talked about yesterday. The North Korean book. I've had a bunch of people writing. It's, again, Without You, There Is No Us. That's the name of the book that I was talking about yesterday, if you're interested.

The name of this book, I do highly recommend this. This is like a really interesting book. It's about North Korea. It's called Without You, There Is No Us.

Without You, There Is No Us. And it's, essentially. But it's about how basically North Korea is cut off from the world.

I Regret Almost Everything. That's that book where the guy who's like a restaurant guy that was really good.

If I were to give you my book of the year, there's a book that I bought a few weeks ago that I read in a night... It's called I Regret Almost Everything... It's 250 pages, the best book I've read and the best memoir I think I've ever read.

His name's like Keith McNally... He expresses all the things that he thinks he screwed up over the years... I highly recommend it.

You Dreamed of Empires, which is like that book, the crazy book about Cortez and Montezuma, and then it's like a fever dream.

You Dreamed of Empires is great. What I would suggest to you is go back and actually get on Wikipedia or something and read the story of Cortez and Montezuma before you do it.

I've been on this kick about reading the Aztecs and Montezuma... I read this book called You Dreamed of Empires. It's a novel. It's really good. It's weird. Very weird, but very good.

Jerry Tipton's here he's going to join us Deja Blue is his book we're going to talk to him about that and some good stories we come back.

the name of the book is Deja Blue you have a book signing coming up ...

it's on July 21st from 2 to 4 p.m. that's a Sunday and I'm hoping to line up some speakers ... you can get the book online, Amazon and also a claim press ... I got mine at Joseph Beth.

there's a book signing at the Kenwick coffee shop bookstore it's a coffee shop near a church on the corner pretty big space appreciate you coming in and sitting with us and tell us a few stories and good luck with it.

Now your memoir is called Deja Blue Drew and I have both read part of it already it's very interesting.

The book is called Deja Blue it's Jerry Tipton's memoirs you can get it on Amazon.

The book is Deja Blue on Amazon and if I can they launch for the book is May 14th from five to seven p.m at the Carnegie Center.

Thank you to Jerry Tipton, the book is called Deja Blue like I said I'm not a big reader of people's memoirs of their time working but it's actually very interesting because as he said on the show Jerry actually tells you a little bit of how things work.

I could like your hat that's a nice hat we're gonna shout out to Onus, shout out to Onus. All right we'll see you later this has been Kentucky Sports Radio.

Apparently it's Hillbilly Elegy. Not Hillbilly Eulogy.

My fault, I misspoke there. I think I said that too after you, maybe.

I'm kind of concerned right now. What's that? Where's your Bible? You got a notebook today I think I lost it. No, did you?

War and Peace the DJ at Rob I'll make sure he plays it tonight as he walks to the seat

I like Patience of Job. I'm a Job guy. You like the Patience of Job or the Book of Job? Yeah, the Book of Job.

Harry Potter. Yeah, I mean, those books were huge. Very obvious. That's... I mean, if you think about it, if you think about how big the books were, the fact that the movies weren't a flop.

If you read this book, you would think it's like Herman Melville. He wrote Moby Dick.

I read The Plot. And you liked that, didn't you? I liked The Plot. The Plot was really good.

It wasn't that long ago. There'd be gate agents or people. There's no one anywhere and they're just like it's like Lord of the Flies.

the Hobbit's a different book.

It was a great book. I loved it. But then I got to the end, and I was ready for a new book. It had a sad ending. It was kind of like Game of Thrones. Got to the very end, I was like, yeah, God, I was loving you. But this is - That's a great example. It's like Game of Thrones. You're like, man, season two was awesome. Those first seasons were incredible. They were amazing. But you know what? They could have stuck the ending a little bit.

There was The Pelican Brief. There you go. That's a Julia Roberts. I think that had Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.

And she wrote the first page and then put like eight pages from Gone With the Wind, pages two through nine, and then had a conclusion and got an A.