The Book Report

The guys get real this week with two non-fiction books! Stephen takes us to school with a fascinating historical look on why the world is the way it is in Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel." Joel takes us to therapy with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark's joint memoir "Stay Sexy, and Don't Get Murdered"  

The guys also forgot to come up with a comical title and spend way to much time next week trying to figure one out. 

We discover movies that came out in the 1950s! 

Oh..... and Stephen tells us about Peter V. Brett's "The Warded Man" while Joel struggles to pronounce Cixin Liu who wrote "The Three-Body Problem." 

Stephen takes us through a tale of corporate espionage in the high flying world of aviation with Michael Crichton's Airframe. Joel begins a magical journey through all possible fictional stories in Jim C. Hines, Libriomancer. 

This is also the beginning of our first Book Giveaway. Subscribe, Rate and Review our podcast to be entered into a drawing to win one of the books we have recommended!!

In this special episode, Joel had some stuff he needed to work through and Stephen is a good sport, our host's detour from recommending books to one another and take a SPOILER filled look at two of their favorite books that they know the other had read. So without further ado, today's books are  Orson Scott Card's masterpiece, Ender's Game; and Brandon Sanderson's inaugural work Elantris. 

Sorry for the choppy opening but enjoy the chaos of us having to censor ourselves in editing. 

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In our only episode this week Joel takes us deep into his childhood on a nostalgic trip through the massive Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate. Stephen tells us about the estranged siblings in The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley. 

In Honor of #ReadABookDay we're bringing you this episode a week early!

Joel continues his spider obsession with David Wong's hilarious yet terrifying novel, This Book is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It. Stephen transports us to ancient China with Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven.

This episode contains some Language.

Stephen regales us with a story of British Imperialism in James Clavell's Tai-Pan. Joel takes us to the far flung future of humanity in Adrian  Tchaikovsky's Children of Time.

(updated audio to remove audio spikes... hopefully) 

Joel depresses and inspires us with the enthralling nihilism of Chuck Palahniuk's, Survivor. Stephen takes us on a trip through the entire 2,000 year history of one of the greatest cities in history with Edward Rutherford's London

The inaugural episode, Stephen presents The Black Prism by Brent Weeks and Joel tells us all about The Fifth Element by N. K. Jemisin.

Please excuse the fact that we hadn't quite figured out how to make our audio sound like it wasn't recorded with a couple of tin cans and some string.  

Our first two full episodes launch tomorrow Friday, Aug. 30

In the mean time enjoy these out of context teaser clips, stay tuned for so much more!