Book Snub

This time on Book Snub, we read Slated, a book where they live in a Dystopia that seems to be almost exactly like every other dystopia we’ve read. In this one young criminals get their mind wiped so they get a “second chance” at life, but the catch is they are stuck with an Apple Watch that makes them pass out or die if they get upset. You win some, you lose some.

We bring you our first episode where there are no books involved– despite what Potatoes may claim. This time, we’re snubbing a movie, and it’s Sharkboy and Lavagirl. It’s about dreams that become real, but aren’t real (because they’re dreams). Also Sharkboy is a terrible friend who wants to kill Max.

It’s been 84 years… and finally we return to finish Matched. Cassia searches for artifacts in the physical black market and goes on more boring outings with the boys she lusts over, Xavier and Kyle, neither of which have a personality. Ky writes some very bad poetry.

Stick around after we snub the book to listen to Jazz snub the Aquaman movie and then a brief foray into Stardew Valley discussions.

We read Matched by Ally Condie, a dystopia with a love triangle in which the Society uses the famed match.com algorithms to pair every person with a heterosexual life partner, but shockingly the main character Cassia ends up with two (2) possible pairs. Quick to ride on the easy fame, Ally neglected to actually put thought into this society, or put a plot in the story. Or give the characters personalities. Or-

Jazz finally decides to edit a god damned episode and produce more content. Yes, we finish off Uglies, where Tally and Shay start fighting over a boy they just met whose close physical proximity to Tally must mean they are dating. Scott also attempts to dip his hands into scientific explanations again, with disastrous consequences, such as a bacteria-virus that infects (or eats?) petroleum and shoots off spores. The usual. Oh, and pills that reverse brain lesions for people with tough jobs.

We take a break from Uglies to celebrate Halloween with some spooky short stories, The Monkey’s Paw and The Cask of Amontillado, followed by the bad free Amazon book, Vampire Dead-Tective. Listen for Ivy and Jazz persistently pestering Potatoes with Italian accents.

It’s the first anniversary of Book Snub, and we’re here for one of our best episodes yet, in which we reveal part of our origin story AND we read Uglies, in which Scott Westerfeld doesn’t realize that he made his two characters gay for each other. It’s also full of ~fun~ words like “bubbly” and “littlies” and other things that make you want to Die. Plus a side of casual racism.

This “week,” we read Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas, in which Celaena is a world-famous assassin, so like, pretty much the worst possible assassin. But somehow she is brought from the mines she was prisoner in to the Capital, made up to look nice, and entered into a dangerous competition with 23 other competitors, an idea we’ve certainly never seen in any other books before, no siree.

On this episode, we read The Hunger Games, which we admit is Actually Not That Bad. Nevertheless, there are still jokes to be made and plenty of opportunities to make fun of the movies and Jennifer Lawrence’s Singular Facial Expression. Listen as we join Katniss as her sister tells her about Queer Eye, her mom whips up organic herbal Zoloft, she dabbles in stand-up comedy, and looks directly into the cameras like Jim from The Office.

As we finish Twilight, Bella continues to fawn over Edward, who does nothing but act creepy and sparkle sometimes. She also goes down a dark path of drug abuse where she takes Nyquil to help her sleep once. Then, during a loud game of baseball, Stephanie Meyer remembers she forgot to put a plot in her book and shoves it in at the last second with a dangerous evil vampire who wants to suck Bella’s blood.