We're dipping back in the Victor Hugo well this week with his other best-known book The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Did you know that the book and the Disney movie don't end the same way? Also on tap: road trips, games of tag, revisiting the poverty question from last week, and talking about Hugo's views on architecture vs. the printing press.
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Aug 31
Ep 765 - Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #3), by Tamsyn Muir (w/ Meghan Winch)
Do you like lesbian necromancer space operas but find all the grieving, brooding, and in-fighting a bit hard to sift through? Well then do I have the book for you! What began as Tamsyn Muir's concluding entry in her trilogy of The Locked Tomb evolved into a full novel of its own ... Show More
1h 30m
Nov 2023
Les Misérables: Victor Hugo, Revolution, and French History
<p>Corey Mohler from Existential Comics returns to the show to discuss the famous novel (and its many adaptations) by Victor Hugo "Les Misérables".<br /> <br /> Together they discuss the novel, its various adaptations, its political and social themes, 19th Century France, the "Gi ... Show More
1h 3m
Apr 2020
The Shenandoah Sarsaparilla Shindig
Join us for an illimitable amount of fun as we discuss The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe. We also talk about the Vincent Price movie adaptation, get an update on the ongoing War on Xmas, share some quarantine tips, and read a Civil War letter. Next book: You by Carol ... Show More
56m 1s
Aug 2021
236-French Fairy Tale: Piece of Cake
This week, we're in French fairy tales with queen who prepared her daughter for the world a little too well, and to the queen's despair she doesn't want to marry, choosing to rely instead on her own strength and judgement. Oh, and also there are griffin fights, dragons, sphinxes, ... Show More
43m 37s
Nov 2025
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 4
Let's return to the mountains of France with this wonderful author and his rather opinionated companion. This time, we ponder the phenomenon of waking in the deep dark of night, the pleasure of sleeping outdoors, the prettiness of a barmaid who doesn't give our author the time of ... Show More
58m 31s
Apr 2025
The Gay Science #14 (III.148-III.175)
Renaissance & Reformation, the critique of saintly virtue, the color we have thrown onto life and how it differs from that of the ancient world, and Nietzsche's attempt to "untangle the knot" of his moralization of the world by returning to the style of the moral maxim. Rapid fir ... Show More
2h 5m