The Book Report

Just in Time for Easter!! It's here the fourth and Final part of our "Christian" "Literature" series!

Today we talk Masturbation, Cult indoctrination, Doxxing, Balancing your checkbook, and the gender fluidity of God...

Why does this genre exist? We don't answer that question...or really even ask it but we do go over the best and worst examples of this problematic and prevalent 90s book trend.

More "Christian Lit" this time that doesn't even need to be in quotes, but let's stick with a theme. Last episode we kinda unapologetically shit all over the Left Behind books and modern "Christian" pop culture in general. Today we're focusing on some actual literature that is both Christian and GOOD?!

We breeze over the entire works of C.S. Lewis and provide some recommended reads before we go back to judgmental next week. (Just kidding were very judgmental this week too. 

Okay...  We accidentally did a sort-of special episode fr the tenth one in a season again. 

Today begins a new series on a subject were annoyingly uniquely qualified to discuss... Christian culture books. 

Left Behind if you are not in the know is a book series that is the juggernaut of Christian culture. So to start off a series discussing Christian Literature we had to start with the big one.  

Remember when we recommended books? remember how we rewrote the terrible book descriptions into things that actually represented what you were about to read? Well, this episode is just that!

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I promise we start talking about the episode's main topic eventually, if you want to skip over all the perfection that is Redwall, Ping-Pong drugs and Wheel of Time bashing go to approx. the 21 mark.

We also gave each other new writing prompts they are as follows:

Stephen's prompt for Joel: I would like you to write a thriller that takes place at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station. It cannot be supernatural. 

Joel's Prompt for Stephen: The dark one rose, the scholars and prophets scoured the countryside to find the foretold chosen one. Its now the last battle the forces of good and evil are fighting what could be Armageddon but everyone knows that no matter what heroics take place on the battlefield the outcome will be determined by the true fight between chosen hero and great evil. But… two chosen ones have shown up.

They both fulfill every minute detail of the prophecies but the foresights also all agree that the final battle is to be one on one. The dark one is here how do you decide who to send out and fight.

We're back!!!

Holidays took a lot longer than we planned and well we kinda forgot to record for a month. Inertia is a difficult piece of reality to overcome. Anyways we finally read our latest short stories and with no restraint on SPOLIERS discuss the Space Trilogy beginning with the Three Body Problem!

Stephen's Prompt: Tell me about a normal event from a non-human pov (inanimate object, animal, alien, fairy, demon etc) in a way that makes it bizarre (humerus or horrifying) don't explain the event or what you the pov character are but give enough context for me to guess.

Joel's Prompt: Write from the perspective of an AI tasked with creating paperclips as they slowly realize they are destroying the world that created them.

So today we're gonna talk about things that annoy us (What else is new) Book Tropes and Cliches and the best ways authors have avoided them.

Also, we didn't read any more Out of The Silent Planet sry. But we do have new Writing Prompts!!

Joel's Prompt: Write from the perspective of an AI tasked with creating paperclips as they slowly realize they are destroying the world that created them.

This isn't an episode about Community... because as amazing as it is, it isn't a book. We are talking about how we hope The Expanse gets at least one movie to wrap up the last 3 books.  Then joel goes on several rants about how book adaptations have a bunch of major problems. Beware of Spoilers for DRESDEN FILES and THE EXPANSE 

We read along Out of The Silent Planet Chapters 9-10

Books have been banned for a lot of very very very stupid reasons. That was the original point of this episode it ended up being an excuse for each of us to rant about politics and social issues for an hour... and every now and then relate it back to books.