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Sham bam bamina! posted:I'm surprised and saddened that nobody in this thread talked about the Vampire$ episode (I am part of the problem), because it rules. I spent the first twenty minutes or so gradually thinking it sounded like John Carpenter’s Vampires, and eventually realized it wasn’t a coincidence.
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At some point I realized Jay hasn't seen the film and I had no goddamned idea that was possible.
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I thought the spooky Sisters of Mercy version of the theme song sounded more like Type O Negative, and I'm enjoying this episode about Vampire Dollar Sign.
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I liked that they just leaned into how stupid it was and really seemed to enjoy it. Made me think about reading it
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The episodes where the book is bad but they liked reading it anyway are the best episodes.
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Cactrot posted:The episodes where the book is bad but they liked reading it anyway are the best episodes. Yeah, like Necroscope.
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Is this a catch all for all the bad book podcasts?
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RandomPauI posted:Is this a catch all for all the bad book podcasts? Not by design, but this thread is slow enough that I don't think anyone would mind if you talked about a different one.
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Thanks. I was just listening to "Worst Bestsellers" latest episode about Red Rising. It's a book by an old white guy about teens, but it's also full of piss, sex slaves, murder. So, of course, most libraries shelve it as a YA novel. I had to stop listening during the dramatic reading. It was a conversation/exposition dump by two wealthy women with vile personalities. My mind kept screaming "NO ONE TALKS LIKE THAT".
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TWB is my favorite. There's also Teen Creeps if you, too, are a Christopher Pike Phase Survivor (they do other stuff, too, of course). I am still crossing my fingers that someone will do a Lurlene McDaniels book; those horrified me even as a child and I'm sure they'd be hilarious now.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:There's also Teen Creeps if you, too, are a Christopher Pike Phase Survivor (they do other stuff, too, of course). 
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Episodes on The Tachyon Web AND The Starlight Crystal? Hell yeah. No Choose Your Own Adventures, though. But they also did My Sweet Audrina, and now I have to read it because it they made it sound SO CRAZY.
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Nov 7, 2018 08:47
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I haven't heard of Lurleen McDaniels before. What's so bad about her books?
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Carbon Thief posted:Not sure what reminded me of these terrible books, but I have to share an author I read a bunch of in high school: Lurlene McDaniel. She specializes in tragic teen romances where the main characters usually have serious illnesses. For example: Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 12:53
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So she just wants teens to gently caress and die huh?
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NO, they don't gently caress, they all Christian. And Amish. Frequently Amish. It's hurt comfort fiction aimed at reinforcing traditional gender roles, and also they are dumb, poorly-written, formulaic garbage. Like, imagine the opposite of Judy Blume. Girls in my fifth grade class were loving obsessed with them, those and Sunfire romance novels, which I loved because there was totally kissing BUT mostly they were historical novels about girls kicking rear end. Also terrible formulaic, but way better. (Willo Davis Roberts!!!)
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:TWB is my favorite. There's also Teen Creeps if you, too, are a Christopher Pike Phase Survivor (they do other stuff, too, of course). The Worst Bestsellers, episode 56: Angels Watching Over Me.
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Nov 7, 2018 15:20
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My bad. Horror movies have me primed to associate "teen has sex" with "teen dies".
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Jurgan posted:The Worst Bestsellers, episode 56: Angels Watching Over Me. Omg how did I miss it THAAAANK YOOOOU
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RandomPauI posted:My bad. Horror movies have me primed to associate "teen has sex" with "teen dies". Coach Carr?!
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RandomPauI posted:My bad. Horror movies have me primed to associate "teen has sex" with "teen dies". That's the after-school-special books which used tragedy to explicitly impart a lesson. McDaniels was more about peddling romance and commitment without the threat of sex.
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there wolf posted:That's the after-school-special books which used tragedy to explicitly impart a lesson. McDaniels was more about peddling romance and commitment without the threat of sex. So kind of like Stephanie Meyer?
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Jurgan posted:So kind of like Stephanie Meyer? To be honest, I think they're worse. At least there were SOME interesting female characters and a bit of diversity in Twilight. And I'll go to bat for The Host; I liked the concept a lot.
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Jurgan posted:So kind of like Stephanie Meyer? Twilight at least endorses sex within marriage as a good thing. McDaniel's was always about avoiding sex all together; boyfriends never ask for sex, they often can't have it (literal angel boyfriend will protect you but never touch you) and if it comes up through circumstance they're quick to assure you that they don't want it. I think Twilight, even with it's own host of regressive issues, is better because at least Bella is presented as a sexual being who eventually gets to a point where she can act on it safely and with enthusiasm.
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What I'm getting from this Maze Runner episode is that the author had a really good idea for a streetwear brand but decided to make a novel instead, possibly in an attempt to do a reverse Marc Ecko's Getting Down
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Nov 12, 2018 18:03
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Actually, it's Marc Ecko's Getting Up Contents Under Pressure, and yes, you have to say the whole thing
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Nov 12, 2018 21:59
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Actually, Marc Ecko was the scientist
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Such a shame that we never got to see Marc Ecko's planned video game adaptation of Macbeth.
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As is traditional, the author of this week's book turned out to be a notorious sex pest, which became public earlier this year.
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Those Maze Runner books are so meh; I don't get why they're still popular.
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They are at my school, but not as popular as they were last year.
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I'm a 36 year old guy and Judy Bloom comes up in Worst Bestseller often enough to pique my interest. Should I give any of her books a read.
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Judy Blume ( ) is mostly famous for her books for girls about periods (Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret) and sex (Forever). Possibly interesting, probably difficult to read without feeling like an absolute creep. I remember liking her Fudge series enough, but I haven't read them since I was 10 at the latest. She's also written a few novels for adults, of which Summer Sisters seems to be the most popular.Edit: Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself might be worth a look. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Nov 17, 2018 |
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RandomPauI posted:I'm a 36 year old guy and Judy Bloom comes up in Worst Bestseller often enough to pique my interest. Should I give any of her books a read. Yes. I don't think it's creepy, but it might not be very interesting to you. Judy Blume has a wonderful talent for understanding how situations look and feel to kids, and is equally skilled at expressing such. Hell, Superfudge has become really trendy in our school's library this past month, and my kids really don't like "old books "
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neongrey posted:As is traditional, the author of this week's book turned out to be a notorious sex pest, which became public earlier this year. Wait the author of the Maze Runner books? Do they even have an author? I thought they came out of one of those writer mills like Maximum Ride books.
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there wolf posted:Wait the author of the Maze Runner books? Do they even have an author? I thought they came out of one of those writer mills like Maximum Ride books. Yep, him, and they do. The hubub around it was pretty big in book circles when it broke.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Yes. I don't think it's creepy, but it might not be very interesting to you.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Yes. I don't think it's creepy, but it might not be very interesting to you. A lot of old children's/YA literature was very clearly written by adults who had no idea how children actually speak, so they either sound like mini-adults or like idolized "Well golly gee ma, I would never" caricatures. Blume was one of the first authors who wrote child characters that acted and sounded like their own age. Are You There God? It's Me ,Margaret was written in 1970 and hardly seemed dated at all when I read it as a tween in the early 2000s.
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