The Two Mikes decide to drill into J. P. Moore's Toothless. It is not the end of the world but Forgiving Mike does not find a quarter under his pillow and Skeptical Mike is richly rewarded by this new take on the zombie trope.
It's Cocktail Time!
The Red Knight
2 shots of brandy
1/2 shot of Cointreau
1/2 shot yellow Chartreuse
A dash of Peychaud's bitters
Shake with cracked ice and strain. Garnish with a kumquat.
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Still listening and diggin' you guys. There's something so powerful in putting in your time, and consistently building up what is, collectively, a great achievement. Which is what this podcast is.
It was a great cover, and I see what drew you in. I didn't get the sense that the book had a lot of historical insight. It reminds me of Connie Willis's award-winning Doomsday Book; we got nothing of history, or historical personages, or even a sense of what society was like; instead, the troubles of one family in one place. It disappointed me after the approbation the book had received.
Funny the nice Mike/Tough Mike roles were reversed. It's a testament to the "ending first" approach to fiction, as nice Mike observed, and to the value of editing.
Jeff Vandermeer's new trilogy is getting a big push. It's going to be rapidly released, the three books only months apart. It's a relatively new release strategy. I've actually never read him (except the how-to-approach-authorial-promotion-on-the-internet guide, Booklife), but admired many of his editorial projects, particularly the massive, brilliant tome The Weird.
Hey, that new TV series "Resurrection" looks a lot like Jan Strnad's Risen! He wuz robbed!
Have you guys ever done a Dean Koontz book? Kind of a one-man, commercially inclined fiction-factory, but he has some interesting angst from his childhood, in particular a question about his parentage that will never be resolved, which he revealed in an introduction he wrote for a book on graveyard statuary.
Hmmm... can't listen to this one, there's a message saying the file is corrupt.
No podcast this month?
Sorry, all you (three?) listeners for the delay. No excuses, just apologies.
Thanks for still listening.
Answers to specific questions:
Emphyrio: New ep should be posted now. We've never done Koontz because of our early policy of not doing the big four: King, Koontz, Rice, Barker. I have read a bit of Koontz (the Odd Thomas books, and Lightning, and was entertained but not hooked. I was surprised to learn he was a fellow admirer of the late Jack Vance, and that has knocked him a few steps up my ladder of esteem; perhaps we will tackle him in the future; it may be time to violate our policy.
knobgobbler (Jesse): I just checked it on iTunes and it works. We recorded this ep offsite, so if it sounds like crap, that's why.
Forgiving Mike
Ah.
I was trying to play it through Blogspot. It doesn't work there but works fine on Archive.org.
Thanks!
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