The President

The President

The Day 13 of the Twilight Zone Advent calendar and a question from Mark Dabbitt what are some top books you would recommend for Twilight Zone fans?

So Emmy, what would you recommend?

So this was a great question for me because I am a total bookworm and I read books all the time.

And actually, until a few years ago ago I didn't quite appreciate the breadth of

knowledge there was and how many books there were on the twilight zone both fictional you know

short story set in the twilight zone um non-fictional books books about about Rod Serling himself and things.

So this was a great excuse for me to go to the Twilight Zone book shelf on my bookshelf

and flick through things and it was great.

So thank you very much for asking this question.

I have sort of two answers. The first one for me is philosophy in the twilight zone. Sometimes I just want a little bit more analysis on some of the subject matter. I want to go a little bit deeper than just enjoying the story at surface level. And this book is excellent. It's 12 essays on subjects like

things like where are the twilight, where is the twilight zone? Things like this, you know,

my favourite is like a rationality and choice in nick of time. You know, things like this, you know,

where it's questions where you have

that little nugget of the question as you go away from the episode. This just takes a little bit

more of a deep dive into some of those questions. And I love that. You know, I love that they've

taken these concepts and ideas that Rod Serling was definitely angling at when he wrote these stories and really looked them in a deeper way.

So I absolutely love this one.

It's not necessarily all light reading, but it is great for when you're in the right mood for that sort of thing.

I agree completely about that because if I'm struggling a bit with an episode

to formulate my thoughts on it,

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