Authorized Novelizations Podcast

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Authorized Novelizations Podcast episodes

November 03, 2022 CRUMB: High School Musical Extravaganza (w/ Leah Marilla Thomas)
We just cannot get enough of the HSM universe. After trying to fit a discussion of HSM 3 into a Crumb way back, we circle back now to delve further into the lore. We're joined by Leah Marilla Thomas, and this time we each read our own books and reported on them. New Tertiary format we're testing. It goes okay!
We cover:
Stories From East High #2: School Spirit (Marco)
Stories From East High #3: Poetry in Motion (Overbye)
Stories from East High #4: Crunch Time (Overbye)
High School Musical: All Access (Hannah)
HSM:TM:TS Season 1 novelization (Leah)
HSM:TM:TS: The Wonderstudies (Leah)
HSM:TM:TS: Road Trip (Overbye)
What a rich property!
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Next Week on Authorized: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story w/ Mark Stay
2 hr 1 min
October 27, 2022 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers by Nicholas Grabowsky (w/ Jesse Hassenger)
Here's the hot take: It's Halloween 2! It's so much better if you think of it as the second time he got out. The first two movies were the same damn night. Anyway, Jesse Hassenger returns! To talk a movie none of us are particularly gaga about, and a novelization that's, uh, a little unfinished-feeling. But we had fun, and that's what really matters, in my opinion.
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Next week on Authorized: A whole bunch of High School Musical books
2 hr 11 min
October 20, 2022 CRUMB: Ranking the Novelizations Season 3
Give us a week off, jeez! Instead of reading a novelization this week, we're once again ranking the novelizations. What's good? What's bad? What's middling? We have a few answers.

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Next Week: Halloween IV: The Return of Michael Myers
1 hr 13 min
October 13, 2022 Speed 2: Cruise Control by George Ryan
It's the Godfather 2 of action movies, Speed 2! The similarity is that they are both movies that exist. This week on Authorized, John, Andrew, Andrew and Hannah discuss George Ryan's abysmal novelization of the okay sequel Speed 2: Cruise Control! It's got action; it's got romance! With Ryan's help, it's got sexism and other flavors of hate, too! We read this one so you never have to touch it.
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Next week on Authorized: We rank the Season 3 novelizations
1 hr 50 min
October 06, 2022 CRUMB: The Starlight Barking by Dodie Smith (w/ Book Retorts)
This week on AUthorized, we take a detour into a book we just really wanted to read- The Starlight Barking! In this insane sequel to 101 Dalmatians, puppies can fly and communicate telepathically, and Cruella de Vil has reinvented herself as the creator of "Clothes that clank".
We enlist the help of Danielle and Sam from the podcast Book Retorts to break down this very strange tome.
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Next Week on Authorized: Speed 2: Cruise Control by George Ryan

1 hr 42 min
September 29, 2022 Grease by Ron de Christoforo (w/ Erik Benjamin)
The eternal challenge of the musical novelization rears its ugly head once more- What do you do about the SONGS? This week on Authorized, Erik Benjamin joins to discuss the loopy, inventive novelization of Grease by Ron de Christoforo! It's got 50 pages before the movie begins, it's all from Sonny's perspective, it's weird as hell. Novelizations: what a fun medium!
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Next week: The Starlight Barking by Dodie Smith
1 hr 55 min
September 22, 2022 Windtalkers by Max Allan Collins (w/ Matt Dartnell)
Well, the only way to follow up the amazing movie Face / Off and its incredible novelization is to let ourselves down with another Woo/Nic Cage novelization that's pretty disappointing. This week on Authorized, we tackle Max Allan Collins' mirthless cover song version of Windtalkers, which sucks the meager blood from an already gaunt cut of cinema. Also, Matt Dartnell is here! We have fun.
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Next Week on Authorized: Grease

1 hr 36 min
September 15, 2022 Face / Off by Clark Carlton (w/ Clark Thomas Carlton and Max Fitzpatrick)
What a glorious, sick novel, both transcendent and disgusting. Today on Authorized, we welcome back Max Fitzpatrick to discuss the novelization of John Woo's scifi crime action extravaganza Face/ Off. A book both weightlessly streamlined and beautifully perverse. Then, we interview the author Clark Thomas Carlton about working with the screenwriters and writing this odd book!
JUMP TO 2:05:00 FOR INTERVIEW WITH CLARK THOMAS CARLTON
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Next Week on Authorized: Windtalkers by Max Alan Collins
2 hr 42 min
September 13, 2022 Heat 2 by Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner (w/ Blake Howard and Gavin G. Smith)
On a SURPRISE Authorized, we're discussing the new Tertiary Tome Heat 2 with none other than Blake Howard, host of One Heat Minute. We talk Chris' ascension to Blackhat and Neil McCauley's tragic past in this FULL SPOILERS review.
We're also joined by returning guest Gavin G. Smith, whose book Spec Ops Z is out now: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/spec-ops-z/9781781088739

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2 hr 42 min
September 08, 2022 Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich (w/ Leah Marilla Thomas)
You ever happen to be in the perfect situation to pretend to be a dead teenager's friend? Relatable stuff. This week on Authorized, we're joined again by Leah Marilla Thomas to discuss the novelization of Dear Evan Hansen. Val Emmich tries, boy does he try, but this is a tough story to get behind. Sincerely, Us.
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Next Week: Face/ Off by Clark Carlton
1 hr 42 min