Shogun

This book by James Clavell was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about anxiety & stress, depression & mood, exercise & strength. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom.

• “I started Shogun inaudible ... that's also incredible so far so good ... Shogun is is also exceptional”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “also incredible, also exceptional”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 202000:42:56

  Said during "The Random Show: Boozy Quarantine Edition!". The episode features Kevin Rose: Kevin Rose is a serial entrepreneur, investor at True Ventures, and Tim Ferriss's longtime friend and co-host of The Random Show. He joins Tim for this live, boozy quarantine-edition conversation. Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose drink wine and riff on quarantine life, books, investing, anxiety, and binge-watching during early COVID-19.