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Published · transcript-backedMentions personal use of An Ember in the Ashes.
18 Feb 2021 Acquired The New York Times Company
“My carve out is a really great fantasy series, a book series that I read recently, Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes series.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- recommendation
- Recorded
- 18 Feb 2021
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The New York Times Company
Transcript context
…We got a lot of push back. Yeah. I guess it makes sense, if you make it this far, why not have some fun. Now, we're all just like whatever. My carve out is a really great fantasy series, a book series that I read recently, Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes series. It's really cool. The first book, An Ember in the Ashes I thought was a little slow and felt a little Hunger Games knock-off, but my wife Jenny has read the series and she’s like, stick with it. By the end of the first book and into the second and beyond, it gets really good. It has really good world-building, a very cool Game of Thrones meets Lord of the Rings meets the Middle East. It was good, highly recommended. All right. It's funny, I haven’t read fantasy in so long.…
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