“But he's an amphetamine writer. "On the Road" was apparently written in two weeks on amphetamines. And, but it's good. Amphetamines”
Books mentioned in Norman Ohler: Hitler, Nazis, Drugs, WW2, Blitzkrieg, LSD, MKUltra & CIA | Lex Fridman Podcast #481
From Lex Fridman Podcast · 2025-09-19
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“and Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison. - All these little events come together. It's so interesting that”
“good. But in his biography of Hitler, he just writes one sentence like, "And then he had a crazy doctor called Morell who gave him dubious”
“- I mean, that's why I wrote the book, The Bohemians, because there were a few people in Berlin that didn't react this way, but they reacted in”
“- You know, it's like in Animal Farm when the pigs discover alcohol. Animal Farm by George Orwell. There's no evidence that they”
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. - You can do a drug movie on the Nazis.”
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He understood that these people maybe are not crazy. It's just a different way of seeing. That's like an LSD”
“clarity that is in that house. When Nietzsche wrote Zarathustra and... - You can sense his presence a little bit?”
“Under the Volcano, he was drinking a lot. Or Hemingway was drinking a lot, and they could only write when they're drunk.”
“through Notes on the Underground, The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov. And that, I don't think...”
“Fight Club and many other amazing books. - Yeah, he's a great writer. Fight Club influenced me quite”
“- Yeah, it's Ulysses by James Joyce. Ulysses is good, but only when you're in your early 20s, living in New”
“who wrote "Gravity's Rainbow," which I think is one of the best novels of the 20th century. And I read that in Berlin”