Today, we're offering a special Dave-less bonus episode featuring our friend Nick Rynerson. Nick was in town on business, and we decided that we should to something amazing: we should go to McKay's, one of my favorite bookstores!

Get ready for the weirdest episode we may have ever done as we:

• Offer hot takes on books we see
• Recommend books for one another
• Describe our approaches to bookstore browsing
• Search for David Foster Wallace books and other titles Nick can't remember
• Get a totally off-brand book for Dave that he has to read (because it's a gift, and it would be bad form to do otherwise)

All while wondering how long it's going to be before someone kicks us out.

A few of the books we mentioned on this episode:

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

The Crown Jewels by Walter Jon Williams

Island in the Sea of Time by S. M. Stirling

Ex Machina Vol. 1 by Brian K Vaughn & Tony Harris (note: this book is intended for adult readers only)

Commonwealth by Anne Patchett

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby

A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

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