Try It, You'll Like it

Try It, You'll Like it

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Try It, You'll Like it episodes

  • Episode 16 - Here, Have Some Ale While I Sing You The History of My People

    We all discuss works based on Shakespeare, but not just adaptations. For the movie we watched 1961's West Side Story and the novel was Terry Pratchett's 1992 Discword novel, Lords and Ladies. Amy goes off on pancake makeup, I discus how Robert Wise lost something when he had to go all shiny for the color era and Randy gives some thoughts on what makes enjoyable fantasy novels.
    For next episode, Joseph chose the theme and we're doing Dystopian game shows. Amy chose Horace McCory's They Shoot Horses, Don't They? for the novel and Randy chose David Cronenberg's Videodrome for the movie.
    1 hr 32 min
  • Episode 15 - Revisiting the Wilderness of Childhood

    This week, we revisited things that we enjoyed in our teenage years. I chose Robin Hood (the 1973 Disney animated version) for the movie and Amy chose Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War for the novel. We talk horrid villains, recycled animation, the songs of Roger Miller and Randy presents why Robin Hood is a Tea Party movie.

     

    For next episode, Amy chose the theme and we're doing Shakespeare Reimagined. I chose Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies (Midsummer Night's Dream) for the novel and Randy chose West Side Story (Romeo & Juliet) for the movie.

    1 hr 26 min
  • Episode 14: Time Keeps On Slipping

    We discuss Agatha Christie's The Clocks and the 2009 movie Timer, along with mocking mystery novel contrivances, debating the ethics of having your romantic destiny determined by a wrist timer and why Hercule Poirot is kind of a dick.
    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 13 - Tennesse
    This week, our theme is Tennessee. We talk the movie A Face In The Crowd (1957) and the novel Orchard Keeper (1965). Southern accents abound and we debate how to pronounce names.
    1 hr 19 min
  • Episode 12 - Comedy Tonight!

    Join us we talk comedy. We discuss Jerome K. Jerome's novel 3 Men In A Boat and the 2001 movie Super Troopers. Listen up and see which of us might be a grump! Also, we talk about what we've been watching on TV lately, Randy updates us on the Buffy Rewatch and Joseph announces a new project.
    1 hr
  • Episode 11 - What The Hell Was That?

    Wherein we debate William Goldman's Color of Light, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, discuss some snubs and pleasant surprises with the Oscar nominations and get into a shouting max over whether or not David Lynch knows how to focus a camera.
    Next week is humor; we'll be reading Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat and watching the Broken Lizard movie Super Troopers.
    1 hr 25 min
  • Episode 8 - The One Where We Insult The Listeners

    This week, our theme was Parents!  We talk about the Chaim Potok novel, My Name Is Asher Lev (1972) and the movie The Family Stone (2005).  There's discussion of the Sound of Music Live broadcast, how to insult listeners who might not be listening and the usual shenanigans.

     

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    (Please note that at one point I mispronounce the Ladover community, the fictional Hasidic community in the novel, as "Landover."  I did not mean that Asher Lev works for the Washington football team that pays there.)

     

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    1 hr 18 min

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Three friends discuss movies and books around a different theme each week.