Book Cult

This episode we're covering Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Are you an organ donor? Have you ever thought about what's going to happen to your body when you die? Sydney and Delaney discuss the best ways to recycle your body, and all the weird ways your body can be reused. Stay tuned for Sydney's funeral plans and our opinions on head transplants. 

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Are you an enigma? Do you represent adventure and a new outlook on life? Did some sad boy white dude get extremely obsessed with you but also never bothered to try to get to know you? If so, you might just be a manic pixie dream girl. Join us to find out how this term, coined to point out sexism in film, became sexist on its own. 

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Manic Pixie Dream Girl strikes again. Listen to hear us talk about the banned John Green novel, Looking for Alaska, where we cover why it's banned, why it's hard to relate to teens as an adult and how messed up boarding school is.

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Did you know that The Lovely Bones was influenced by a true crime? Unfortunately it is, today we go over the still unsolved murder of Debbie Mackel. If you have any information about Debbie's death please call Pennsylvania Crime Stopper at 1-800-4PA-TIPS.

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Trigger Warning: rape & murder. This week we cover The Lovely Bones, a book about a young girl who has tp come to terms with her own death while watching her family try to cope with the tragedy. This book is both sad and beautiful and Samuel is what every man should try to be. 

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To go along with our Lord of the Flies episode we decided to cover the Stanford Prison Experiment. This shit is insane, only lasted 6 days and points out what is fucked about American prisons. Also I now realize that 1971 was in fact 50 years ago.

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Piggy dies, the end. Jk. Today we're talking about The Lord of the Flies by William Goulding which you'll remember from your high school english class. Listen to hear Sydney and Delaney talk about planes full of only children, how irresponsible kids are while stranded on an island, and how Sydney has never seen a dead body but has also seen a ton of peoples bones. What really is the truth?
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Not a book, just a little info about the kidnapping and arrest of Patty Hearst. Hearst was in prison with Lyn "Squeaky" Fromme so we figured why not talk about Patty and why a woman from a super rich and prominent family was in a federal prison with a would-be assassin. 

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On this episode we read the biography Squeaky: The Life and Times of Alice Lynette Fromme by Jess Bravin. Squeaky was the first bitch to try to kill president Ford. Turns out that wasn't the only crazy event in her life, since she was also one of the original Manson girls. Listen to us discuss how Squeaky and her friends did make some good points about the environment and capitalism, but all that is really useless when they're walking around in swastica robes. Also threatening to kill so many people wasn't cool either. 

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On this episode we talk about the pop culture sensation that is Fight Club. We go over how great young Brad Pitt is and the fact that this book was taken the wrong way by so many people. Listen to hear about how Delaney has never lost a fight and what a tragedy all that burnt Ikea furniture really is.

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