WARNING: This episode contains mentions of sexual assault right from the jump because there's a lot of it in this book.

This month we discuss Candide by Voltaire. SPOILER ALERT: We hated it! Listen to find out more about the death of one-name superstar Voltaire, red sheep, and why we need Nick Cage for a project.

Also, this is the first time we've tried editing in a musical cue ( Camille Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre, for reasons that will become evident) so apologies if it sounds sloppy.

Recommendations:  

• Don't read Candide if you can avoid it 
• The Work of the Dead by Thomas Laquer
• This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hagglund
• Nancy Collins’s Sonja Blue novels
• The Good Place
• Pet Semetary by Stephen King (and the I Don’t Even Own a Television Podcast on the book)