Sometimes a book is so meta it sort of breaks your brain! How to talk about a book that is all beginnings and no ends? How to discuss a book that enlists You, the Reader, in its chicanery? We try to get on the wavelength with Calvino's text. You be the judge of if we get there.
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Jul 6
Ep 758 - Forrest Gump, by Winston Groom
Life is like a box of podcasts, you sort of know what you're gonna get (e.g. host-read ads, friends talking books, hot takes about books that inspired movies). Winston Groom's picaresque romp Forrest Gump inspired a juggernaut of a movie in the mid-90s - but it's really a rather ... Show More
1h 12m
Feb 2024
Adventure Book Theatre: Light on Quests Mountain (An ENDLESS QUEST Book)
<p>The Lore Lords, as well as newcomer Jaik (sp?), are transported to a post-apocalyptic future full of sentient tractors, rideable plants, and one <em>extremely</em> sexy lizard. Can the Book Buds survive in his strange, and at times, poorly formatted New World? Or will they suc ... Show More
1h 20m