It's pumpkin spice latte season, nerds! Guess what? We got NOTHING this week! So we're picking our favorite fall reads to chat about! What's a fall read? Who cares?? Guido the book dog bothers us for the first half hour...

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The dumb dumbs are going to NYC! Recording from the industrial basement of a coffee shop, we're joined by Tash (Only Lovers Left in the Library) and Ib (No Flowers for White Powers, That's On My List)! The big discussion is our top three books written by non-white authors! Bonus story: Ib picks up a transmission about an oncoming alien invasion! Moral of the story: 'Don't eat the mushrooms, they're bad!"

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We done did it! Thirty episodes! Dear lord! We celebrate our milestone by reading our first actual novel in awhile! A celebrated fascist manifesto by a long dead science fiction master! Here's to many more of these dumb episodes!

Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A Heinlein

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Spoooky stuff in this episode of Slow Readers! We read the spookiest author ever: William Faulkner! Oooooo!

Ethan Parkinson joins us as we try our best to keep his cat from crawling under his rocking chair! Happy Halloween!

'A Rose for Emily' (1930) by William Faulkner. 

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Ryan 'Cawdor' Snyder (Sex + Violence) joins the dumb dumbs as they discuss another horror book for Crocktober! This one is a book composed mostly of pictures! Spooky!

Uzumaki (1998-1999) by Junji Ito.

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We talk a novella from collection Full Dark, No Stars by Stevie King!  Halfway through the show, boring old Gabe (ugh!) is replaced with spunky returning guest Katie Kametz! This becomes our most manic episode yet! Also: planes!

'1922' from Full Dark, No Stars (2010) by Stephen King.

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Oh. My. Gawd. We got nothing this week. Really. We got nothing. We pushed the King novella for next episode when we got a guest. So we get political with all the terrible stories in the news, we get hard into the Weekly Deuce: Deucebags, and then we talk about our favorite horror books! 'This is gonna be a rollercoaster of fun!'

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Listen ya'll! In addition to a boring talk about some boring Russian novella, you also get: The Weekly Deuce, a new movie segment, and two entries of our favorite segment Danecdotes and Gables!

Don't forget to check out our newest Topgallant show: Only Lovers Left at the Library!

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy.

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Man, Gabe's opinion is AWFUL in this one! Gross! We discuss the best written novella in the English language! Just ignore Gabe's gross words. Ugh!

Legends of the Fall (1979) by Jim Harrison.

Take your mind off the impending nuclear holocaust with this angry response to the atomic bomb and all things science has weaponized! 

Cat's Cradle (1963) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.