Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Somehow I ended up in the Netherlands. How did I get here? And more importantly, what can I smoke? I remember seeing this book prominently displayed in a bookstore in Amsterdam. National treasure? Had to find out…

YouTube channels mentioned:
Better Than Food: Book Reviews
youtube.com/channel/UCrY6MKSkOlKDBISvM2zEgoQ
mementomori
youtube.com/channel/UC6oWvnoj1O9kq0Mz_DFeIew
The_Bookchemist
youtube.com/channel/UCWE-DhzTZqCGu_uZmVBOgig
Knowledge Lost
youtube.com/channel/UCzC7rydHkubgMjmz_v9Zg1w

Writers and Books mentioned:
Cees Nooteboom
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
Thomas Mann - Doctor Faustus
C.S. Lewis - The Screwtape Letters
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
Norman Mailer - The Castle in the Forest
J.M. Coetzee

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