This is a podcast about godawful books. Each episode, hosts J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision sit down with or without some guests to discuss books that all of them wish they hadn't read.
Hi, all. Probably this won't come as a giant surprise, given our erratic schedule and limited output the past couple years, but the time has come to make it offical: We're ending the show. There's no beef, there's no stress, but there is some sadness, and we recorded an episode to announce the end of the show and talk through it a bit.
The goal is to keep the archive available, but the Patreon will be shutting down by the end of April, 2023, so download anything from there that you want to hold on to. It's been a lot of fun making this show for you all, and we encourage you all to ride the crab, keep reading crap, and try to make the world a little better any time you can.
Recommendations:
Start your own fuckin' band!
Music:
"No Regrets" by Dramarama (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM8C-OmozpM)
"History Lesson, Part II" by the Minutemen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZvsAh5VFRw)
4 Sept 2022
The Paris Apartment
No, it's not a new made-up term for a sexual position—as far as we know!—it's the new Lucy Foley joint, The Paris Apartment! It's darker than a wine cellar, twistier than an alley in your favorite arrondissement, but, unfortunately, about as eventful as an afternoon sighing with ennui over a couple of Gauloises and a well-nursed café au lait in a Left Bank café.
Pat your new Karen O. fringe into an appealing dishevelment, make your best face to express that you have the darkest of dark secrets and make sure you've got a skeleton key for all your neighbors' places, because it's time to take a trip into what some people are calling ... la'part-a-ment Parisienne, but what we know to call The Paris Apartment.
Recommendations:
Paul Tremblay, The Pallbearer's Club
Jane Peck, The Verifiers
Diane Duane, The Door into Fire plus The Worst Bestsellers Ep on it!
Mood Music:
"Heads Will Roll (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzfTPp4moA)" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Bastille Day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3t6iHhYksc)" by Rush
14 May 2022
Born To Run
With tramps like these, hoo boy, do things get real and stay there in a hurry as your humble hosts pop their clutches and tell Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon's Born to Run: A Novel of the SERRAted Edge to eat their dust! It's another novel of the urban fantastique, with an Irish pub described as "straight-edge", a couple battle scenes where you can really see the graph paper underneath the characters, and some of the most improbable radio playlists imaginable, and, as a novel of (sigh) the urban fantastique, one of us slides right off it and the other digs his eldritch fangs right into it. But not like that, the other way.
NOTE: This novel, while mostly lighthearted, does traffic in material related to child sexual abuse and exploitation, in way reminiscent of a particularly tawdry episode of SVU.
NOTE 2: Clsn now realizes he missed a good opportunity to pronounce it "elfs" throughout the episode and regrets the error.
Recommendations:
Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Death Among the Undead, by Masahiro Imamura
Seinfeld Bass Riff Variations
Music:
"Guinnesses" by MF DOOM (feat. 4Ize & Angelika
"Shamrocks and Shenanigans" by House of Pain (https://youtu.be/zy1H0npcQ-c)
"Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version" by Ministry (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXrLKplLAhM)
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