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Episode 6: The novelization of Home Alone


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Episode 6: "Holy Cow!" The 1991 novelization of "Home Alone" analyzed as a primary source

 When I grow up and start podcasting, I'm recording alone!   

By early 1991 I was the last kid in America who had not seen Home Alone in the theater.  With the VHS release still almost a year away, salvation came in the form of steel cases on wheels that is the Scholastic Book Fair where I purchased the movie's novelization for a third the cost of a movie ticket.

Thrity years and at least seventy screenings of Home Alone later, I analyze the script-turned-novel, sans co-commentator.

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Everything is a Primary SourceBy Eric Paul