“The cover look’s like a bro’s douchy tribal tattoo.”
You know any book where that’s Tyler’s initial response to the cover art is going to lead to a good podcast and, really, this book is a pretty perfect example of all the crap in the urban fantasy genre, plus a ton of perfectly great examples of bad writing.
1. Over-powered characters? Check.
2. “Flaws”? Check.
3. “Everyone’s beautiful, even the monsters”? Check.
4. Telling, not showing? Check.
Give it a listen.
My thoughts and feelings go out to the people of Boston and to the families of those impacted.
Come listen along as your courageous hosts go and get blisteringly drunk and then sit through The Host on opening night.
SPOILER: It sucked.
The Drunken Host Movie Watching Extravaganza (aka Suffering for Charity)
This book was stupid.
How stupid?
It was like Hilary Duff read Twilight and said to herself, “Self, I have a great idea for a book for young women! It’ll be like Twilight only better!”
Except not.
By far this was the most stupid book Tyler and Matt have read for the podcast to date.
Episode 2, Season 3 – Elixir by Hilary Duff and Some Random Person
This book surprised Tyler and I a great deal, mostly because we didn’t hate it. Maybe it was because of its flaws or maybe because we read it for this podcast but there were definitely things that we didn’t like that pushed this into not a “good” book, but, as with movies, a book doesn’t need to be good to be enjoyable. I mean, The Long Kiss Goodnight is no cinematic masterpiece, neither is True Lies (hello Jamie Lee Curtis, mrow) but both are fun flicks and this was, when we were done with it a fun, bad book.
Tyler and I decided we wanted to start the year off a little bit more mainstream and so hit up The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling or, as we like to call it, “Everyone’s an asshole and no one is happy” because, you see, everyone in the book is an asshole and no one is happy. Ever. And neither are we.
Episode 1, Season 2 – The Casual Vacancy (aka Everyone’s an Asshole and No One is Happy)
So, Tyler and I have started a charity. We’ve reached the minimum donation amount to get us to go watch The Host on opening night but there are stretch goals and donation prizes for you all to earn. All proceeds go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund so please, go over to This Charity is Why Daddy Drinks and donate!
Fresh from getting his Wife Add-On in Vegas, Tyler and Matt met for one last podcast where in we talked Red Shirts by John Scalzi, Snuff by Terry Pratchett (and not that kind of snuff, you sicko), and life in general.
Everyone, from the both of us to you: thank you. This last year has been awesome!
Also, we will shortly be posting the page for the charity that we mention in the podcast. Remember, we will go pay good cash money on opening day to see The Host if you guys hit our magic number. More suffering if you go over it!
Episode 13 – Final Episode of the Season 1 – Good Book Review!
The shitty year, in shitty, shitty review.
We discuss the terrible books we’ve read this year, as well as what we plan on drinking reading next year.
Last weekend, Matt and I were lucky enough to be guests at Convolution 2012, as Convention for and by people much more talented than us, Kendra Pecan, Dan Morgan, and Ed Pizzini.
In order to not look like schlubs, we asked a trio of guest hosts to join us for an evening of booze and bad writing.
We tackled “Renaissance Faire” edited by Andre Norton and Jean Rabe, this month. Follow the link to see just how bad it was.