Two Absolute Bookends

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Join your Two Absolute Bookends in Chapter 18 of The Way The Stars Fall: Rebirth where Tona is recovering from her Rokarii shanking, but doesn’t let that mar her perfect stomach, Jack is keeping her company rather than captaining, Roxy is introduced then killed and Hollister doesn’t stand a chance.

Not much really happens this chapter, which leads us into a reprise of some of our old wonders, such as whose fault the Vortmund fuckup is and what happens when you let loaders fly fighter ships, with us going into newer territory wondering why the Tranquility has straw mattresses bolted to its hull and going on a five minute detour talking about the Marvel cinematic universe.

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Join your Two Absolute Bookends in Chapter 17 of The Way The Stars Fall: Rebirth while Jack leads a team of his trading ship’s crack commandos to rescue the inexplicably not dead Tona from the clutches of a very confused Alien Hive Mind. It’s far less exciting than it sounds.

Herein we discuss the trend of overly humanised hive minded aliens, get a film recommendation from Louis, the etymology of the word ‘horde’ and yet again we end up back in ancient Rome. This time wondering about the historical precedents of bum based manoeuvring.

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After a long hiatus in uploads (which is all entirely on Peter for being distracted and an overall lazy shit) we’re back and looking at chapter 16 of The Way The Stars Fall: Rebirth.

This is our second attempt at recording this episode, and our frayed nerves do start to show as this fairly uneventful chapter leads us into talking about gambling for space porn, Hollister’s hypothetical murder spree and plans to get into Jack’s pants, ideas for other podcasts and musings on what constitutes a face.

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This week your two bookends find themselves again on the Vortmund with Tona looking at the alien egg.

It hatches, everybody dies and Tona does everything wrong that she possible could.

With that in mind, let me leave you with this direct quote from Tona near the close of the chapter:

‘Oh god, I’m dead, it’s got me, I was stupid; I shouldn’t have opened the door, why did I open the door? Why am I not dead yet?’

Why indeed Tona. Why Indeed...

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This week we’re reading Chapter 14 of TWTSF:R and we mostly spend it with the now captain (shudder) of the Vortmund, Tona, as she mines, romances and touches dusty alien eggs.

Featured this week is lots of complaining about Tona being a captain, the universes weird tech abilities, Jack’s light fitting sabotage and an old timey space miner that Peter found far more entertaining than he should.

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Download the Podcast Here This week you’re bookends Join Jack and the tranquillity crew in getting far away from any threat of an interesting plot or action scene around the insurrectionist base, Peter again displays his frayed sanity when he talks about spaceship engines for about a quarter of an hour and Tona become a captain of her own ship. Wait. What. WHAT! Support the author and buy the book we're reading at the link below: http://lewisstockton.com/publishing/

Download the Podcast Here After last week’s throwback, your bookends are finally talking to you from there here and now as they finally get their teeth back into “The Way The Stars Fall: Rebirth”. It’s good to be back my friends. Prepare yourselves for steamy love pecks, dreams of a Jack-Insurrectionist duumvirate, complete abandonment of any attempts to describe action sequences and the hasty abortion of this insurrectionist arc before anything had a chance to happen. Support the author and buy the book we're reading at the link below: http://lewisstockton.com/publishing/

Download the Podcast Here This week your two bookends read to you from about two months in the past, in the simpler times of early January 2017 before either had read the Eye of Argon. Life seemed so simple then. Apologies on how long it took to get this out, for a myriad of reasons, though admittedly a large chunk of them involve Peter being a lazy gobshite. In the Chapter itself Jack and co reach the insurrectionist base, meet the leader of the insurrection and wander around the base a bit. That’s it really, but we still waffle on about it for an hour... Support the author and buy the book we're reading at the link below: http://lewisstockton.com/publishing/

Download the Podcast Here This week Peter and Louis finally finish the Eye of Argon, reading chapter 7, 7.5 and the missing ending. Where epileptics rage, Grignr gets jealous of a corpse, we learn the meaning of life from looking at the mouth eye of a red emerald blob and Grignr either becomes a King or stays a barbarian (dealer’s choice). It was a blast, and good old Jim made sure the ending was one we’ll never forget, but it’s probably for the best we’re done. In this episode more than ever it’s becoming clear just how thinly spread our sanity was becoming trying to make sense of this tome. There’s nobody to support if you want to read the Eye Of Argon, but you can give an online copy a read here: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/eyeargon/eyeargon.htm

Download the Podcast Here This week your two bookends read chapter 5 and 6 of the Eye of Argon by Jim Theis, in what frankly ended up as a far too long episode. The chapter is full of shivs, vomit, testicular punishment, Mrifk and epilepsy, to name but a few of the many ingredients. More than ever, the contents of these chapters make us have to seriously question our 16 year old Jim Theis, but in this case he got around this close examination by making these chapters so long your bookends Peter and Louis lose the will to live long before reaching the chapter summary. Don’t worry, we’ll be finishing the story next week, and we’ll remember all these wrongs perpetrated against us. Probably. There’s nobody to support if you want to read the Eye Of Argon, but you can give an online copy a read here: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/eyeargon/eyeargon.htm