Soman Chainani on Garden Cities of To-Morrow
Soman Chainani referenced this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Soman Chainani on The Little Mermaid
"You look at The Little Mermaid [movie]. Arielle should die brutally in that movie because she’s an idiot, a complete idiot. [...] To read the original [book], where she dies at the end, suddenly made sense."
Soman Chainani on The Graveyard Book
Soman Chainani referenced this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
Soman Chainani on The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
"Exposed me to the original Grimm’s stories, which are horrific and dark and insane. And half the time, the evil character wins and half the time the good character wins."
Soman Chainani on Peter Pan
"Featured a title character who was at once charming and also a complete narcissistic, pathological demon. It was that ambiguous space between good and evil that I sparked to as a kid."
Soman Chainani on Tao Te Ching
"I remember reading it and being like okay, this makes no sense. But you just keep reading it again and again and slowly, I started to get the point of it."
Soman Chainani on A Little Life
"The greatest work of fiction I’ve ever read, with the simplest theme: All of us come with baggage and wounds and pain; all of us."
Soman Chainani on The Neverending Story
"An amazing book."
Soman Chainani on The War of Art
"Half drill sergeant, half Zen voodoo master, [the author] shot me out of my stupor and taught me the meaning of creative discipline."
Soman Chainani on The Velvet Rage
"Ostensibly about if you grow up a gay man, [how] to deal with it in the world. But I think it’s more about modern masculinity and about what it means to be a man in America."
Soman Chainani on Cirque du Soleil
"One of my favorite books."
