Do you hate receiving favors? Are you picky about the way your coffin will look when you die? Has a childhood illness left you unable to sweat otherwise you will die? Then join us as we discuss William Faulkner's excellent "As I Lay Dying".

0:00 - cold open

07:24 - intro

11:20 - Faulkner background and context

20:00 - summary

22:25 - Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category

58:00 - Scream "We all go a little mad sometimes" category

1:06:58 - Spongebob "Oh brother this guy stinks!!!" category

1:17:11 - Song roulette

1:20:54 - Karen from Mean Girls "Yeah but he's my first cousin" category

Do you aspire to writing Don Quixote yourself? Do you dream up worlds with their own physics, philosophy, and history? Do you love reading the word "hexagon" a bunch of times? Then join us as we discuss "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges.

What bug would you be if you were a bug? Have you ever fallen asleep at your job and been sentenced to die ? When was the last time you went 30 days without eating ? Join us as we discuss Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", and "A Hunger Artist".

Do you love secrets? Have you ever defected to the Soviet Union? Do you survive solely off of citrus and amphetamines? Then join us as we discuss Don DeLillo's "Libra".

Do you think all books should be less than 100 pages? Have you had 84 days of bad luck and are looking to turn things around? Is there an old baseball player that you constantly look to for inspiration and affirmation? Then join us as we discuss Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".

Are you satisfied with simply two incredible characters? Would you strike the sun if it offended you? Do you think Moby Dick deserves over 45,000 one star reviews on goodreads ? Regardless of your answers, join us as we discuss Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".

Do you feel like most books lack enough whale anatomy explanation? Does your mind ever make life affirming connections between ocean life and philosophy? Are you missing one leg? Then let's discuss Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".

In this episode we look back on the six books that we read in season one (The Great Gatsby, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Savage Detectives, Play It As It Lays, Inherent Vice, and Blood Meridian).

Have you ever considered changing your first name? Do you love an epilogue that is too cryptic to mean anything to you? Has a description of a desert ever moved you to tears? Then let's discuss Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian".

0:00 - cold open

11:08 - intro

14:55 - Cormac McCarthy bio & context

21:25 - plot summary

28:00 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category

1:23:12 - category #2 - the Donkey from Shrek “I like that boulder, that is a nice boulder” category

1:30:07 - category #3 - The Mr. Browning from Inception “References are something of a speciality for me” category

1:36:56 - category #4 - song roulette: Bodysnatchers by Radiohead and Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace by The Mountain Goats

1:41:02 - category #5 - Caren from Mean Girls “Yeah but he’s my first cousin”

1:45:28 - outro

Does your heart race when you hear Nicolas Cage's name mentioned? Did you smoke weed once or twice in high school? Do your parents ever talk to you about one of your exes? Then let's discuss Thomas Pynchon's "Inherent Vice".

0:00 - cold open

5:30 - intro

8:20 - Thomas Pynchon bio & context / postmodernism

21:57 - plot summary

27:20 - category #1 - the Monty Python Bridge of Death Answer Me These Questions Three category

1:06:33 - category #2 - draft of songs mentioned in the book

1:16:46 - category #3 - Parks & Rec. His Favorite Movie is Books category

1:32:35 - category #4 - Lifter Puller Smoking Weed & Makin Money category

1:40:48 - category #5 - song roulette: Not Like Us by Kendrick Lamar and Desaparecido by Manu Chao

1:44:43 - category #6 - Karen from Mean Girls Yeah But He's My First Cousin category

1:47:25 - outro