Today the group talks about the cardinal sin (not the Philippine archbishop) of book lovers, the act of abandoning books without completing them. What would compel one to drop these books unread? The babblers share books that has been abandoned, what precipitated the drop. Also, why Bjorn feels a little tentative about the upcoming Watchmen movie.
Synopsis:
This episode was a leisurely-paced show where the babblers mull about what would constitute a good book. A great many books were mentioned in this podcast, and you get a full short story thrown in for good measure! Also, our resident Harry Potter correspondent comes up with the goods again, and Bjorn is true to form with his thought-provoking idle rambling.
Books mentioned in this episode:
How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C Foster
How to Read a Novel: A User’s Guide, John Sutherland
A Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Wuthering Heights
Gone with the Wind
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow
Asylum Piece, Anna Kaven
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago
Demian, Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse
Legends
Legends II
The Overcoat, Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
White Nights, Doestoyevsky
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Black Monk, Anton Chekov
Chess, Stefan Zweig
The Death of Ivan Illyich
Answer, Friedich Brown
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
Cutting It Short, Bohumil Hrabal
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, Victor Pelevin and Andrew Bromfield
The Sea, John Banville
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
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