The Two Mikes

The Two Mikes
Ever wanted to talk with someone about a book you just read? You could just join a book group and talk about it, drink a little, veer off on tangents, work back around to the book again, and finally wrap it up by picking the next book.

But what happens when the book you just read is about about hungry zombies or a haunted house, and your Eat, Pray, Love–reading friends aren’t really into reading it, much less discussing its finer points? That’s what we’re here for. We Two Mikes will be your virtual book group for discussing new and interesting and old and half-forgotten horror books.

If you want to follow along with us, look at the next forbidden book on the table and start reading.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Episode Lucky 13.0 - J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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The guys complete their last semester at Hogwarts with J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is a long sad good-bye as characters will die, graduate or birth little wizards. Is it horror or not? You decide.

If you haven't read the book do not proceed further because this episode is 100% PURE SPOILER.


IT'S COCKTAIL TIME!






1 Shot Jameson Irish Whiskey
1 Shot Goldschlager


Combine, raise your glasses to Griffendor and drink it down.


Music: The Remus Lupins - I'm Going to Hogwarts from Spells from a Broken Wand.

Sunday, September 9, 2007

Episode 12.0, Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker's House

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The guys decide to foreclose on Frank Peretti's and Ted Dekker's House. These authors need to be evicted from the horror genre and returned to what they know best—creating products for the "christian" (sic) genre reader and earning a paycheck. Harsh? Yes. This is tough love baby.

Warning: Do not—we repeat—do not read this book. When necessary, we can raise the dead.


Cocktail






We feel so dirty after reading this book that we cannot even drink. It is DETOX WEEK at the Forbidden Books Group!


End music: "Old Time God," an unsourced gospel masterpiece found on the Net.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Episode 11.0: Joseph Delaney's Last Apprentice Series, books 1 and 2


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With episode 11 the guys bounce back from their lethargy and enthuse about Joseph Delaney's The Last Apprentice, his growing series of young adult horror fantasies. Sort of a more spooky and gory Harry Potter, this series is just getting rolling, so we decided to jump on board. We discuss both book 1, The Revenge of the Witch, and book 2, The Curse of the Bane, and make all sorts of wise pronouncements about the young people of today. (We may devote another 'cast to books 3 and 4 when they come out.)


This week's cocktail:
Village Girls with Pointy Shoes
1 shot of Irish whiskey
2 shots tawny port
1/2 cup of Young's Chocolate Stout (cold)

Pour together in a beer glass, taking care that the stout forms a head (but not too much). We're told this is particularly tasty with a revitalizing meal of babymeat, but you can enjoy it any witch way you like.

Friday, August 3, 2007

Episode 10.0: Brian Wilson Aldiss's - Frankenstein Unbound


Yes - #10! The guys buck the malaise that has overtaken them and slog through time and space with Brian Aldiss's Frankenstein Unbound. They learn that Mary Shelley was one hot eighteenth-century babe and stand perplexed by the ins and outs of monster-making gynecology.


Cocktail



Doin' Mary Shelley




1 part gin
1 part Pernod
2 parts cranberry juice
whatever body parts you desire

Serve over ice.
We created it, but now we despise it.


Music Recommendations: Adolph Hofner - South Texas Swing (because the book starts off in Texas).

Additional Music by Harry and the Potters - "The Foil (Malfoy)"