![]() I’m also listening to Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, narrated by Peter Wickham (2020). Beneath the glorious surrealism and the joy of the tall tale, I found a level of existential horror and of fear. Irish actor Jim Norton’s reading of The Third Policeman (2012) is one of my favourite audiobooks, because it added a layer to Flann O’Brien’s novel that I had failed to perceive when I read the prose. ![]() I listened to these examples of triumph while starting my Couch to 5K programme and started to confront the things I deem as disadvantages in my life and work. The book is a series of case studies exploring how underdogs beat the odds. Trevor Noah quoted from David and Goliath (2013) by Malcolm Gladwell when speaking about power and legitimacy on The Daily Show. Her voice captures the thrill of live music and performance in the recordings. I went to look for her albums, Hadeel and We Teach Life, in which you get lessons in the plight of Palestine, protest and celebration of the Arabic language. The line “Today, my body was a TV’d massacre” just kept ringing in my ear. But then we migrate to the midwest United States and we’re standing in the cold, with Darling realising that the grass is not always greener.įor a different voice, I saw a video on YouTube of spoken word artist and activist Rafeef Ziadah performing We Teach Life, Sir. To see the country through a child’s eyes is joyous and heartbreaking. John and feuding with their neighbors, would make a pretty satisfying film all on their own.In the coming-of-age story We Need New Names (2013) by NoViolet Bulawayo, you are transported to Zimbabwe through the voice of Darling, a 10-year-old girl growing up in the shanty town of Paradise under Mugabe’s regime. Jackie Oppenheimer, who marries Robert’s younger brother, Frank, is unflinching in her description of sister-in-law Kitty, calling her “one of the few really evil people I’ve known in my life.” At Los Alamos, scientists Richard Feynman and Hans Bethe, played in the film by Jack Quaid and Gustaf Skarsgård, establish a playful relationship that earns the duo the nickname “the Mosquito and the Battleship.” And the details of Robert and Kitty’s life after what’s depicted in the movie, building a home on the Caribbean island of St. For readers or moviegoers approaching the story more than 80 years later, the explanations on why a college professor in California would give money to Spanish Civil War refugees, or what it meant to support the unionization of a group of graduate students, make the stakes in Oppenheimer much clearer.Īnd then, of course, there are the details you get in the book that just can’t make their way to film. But the book goes to great lengths to set up the context of the world Oppenheimer was operating in, devoting a lot of time to the left-leaning circles surrounding him in Berkeley, as well as the connections to Communism that would eventually come to overshadow his work on the Manhattan Project. Vanderhoof sees the book as the story of “a person who thinks he’s doing the right thing, but he’s eventually undone by shadowy forces that are larger than him”-another familiar plot for a Nolan film.
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