After a long Christmas break, your two bookends decide to mix things up to mark crossing the 1/3 hurdle of The Way The Stars Fall by reading a short Story, infamous in its awfulness – The Eye Of Argon by Jim Theis. A slight shake up also in that, due to both the shortness andContinue reading "Episode 11 – Surly Beard Of Mrifk"

This week things are very different in the novel this week. We leave the comfort ofthe Tranquility and DSCOS-58 to find Captain Tiberius Hunter and his ex-wifeAmelia on the battle cruiser the Turmoil, themselves natives of the universeJack and his crew have found themselves in and on their way to a dinner withthe Imperator ofContinue reading "Episode 10 – Butter Over Too Much Bread"

A long episode this week, as this chapter is almost as long as the last twocombined (still pretty short all told) the Evil!Fargas arc is closed off for goodas the Tranquillity wrecks the fleet chasing them out of the system and decidethat having already made enemies out of the empire, they should try to hitContinue reading "Episode 9 – Gleeful Gulps and Simmering Chuckles"

This week your bookends Peter and Louis yet again talk about a chapter only a few pages long for 50 minutes, wherein we discus Jack Hunter’s prisoner management skills, Tona Shrike with her sexy sexy head and skewed priorities when it comes to choosing between trousers and being able to fire her gun safely. InContinue reading "Episode 8 – Similar Slack Jaws"

This episode, the pair of absolute Bookends Peter and Louis read a short chapter they accuse of imbuing an attempted rape with comedy, seemingly unaware of the fact they are in fact themselves are making light of rape for comedy. It is pretty funny though, at least when Lewis is the one at the helmContinue reading "Episode 7 – Pants Guard"

This episode our hero Jack spends the chapter inside a prison cell, talking to himself, poking things with a fork, talking to Insurrectionists until getting saved by Hollister, the real hero of the story. As ever, your two bookends Louis and Peter are bemused and spend far too long talking about just how many versionsContinue reading "Episode 6 – Apag, All Purpose Gear, APG, Apags or AyPeGee’s"

In this episode the plot actually moves forward and Louis and Peter spend a long time discussing just why Jack thought visiting the station personally was a good idea, just how quickly communications break down and Jack goes from coming in peace to threatening to blow up the space station and spend far too longContinue reading "Episode 5 – Deep Space Combat Observatory Station Fifty Eight"

In this episode, Louis and Peter spend a long time wondering just what is even happening, in the sense of the science on display, the events, what the author was thinking when he made this plot and what they’re doing with their lives. Not much of importance actually happens in this chapter, but dealing withContinue reading "Episode 4 – Eye Captain"

In the longest episode yet, your two bookends discuss the terrible state the Tranquillity is in, Jack’s bizarre ways of interacting with guests, the inherent problems of having a galaxy spanning empire without warp travel, the utility of portholes on a space ship and much more. Far, far too much more. The length of theseContinue reading "Episode 3 – A Fart In The Wind"

In the second episode, your pair of Bookends tell you about some real world book news regarding the Author, before heading into a chapter discussion that is, if anything, even more rambly and unstructured than the first episode. And somehow even longer, which is almost worrying seeing as we don’t spend half of this episodeContinue reading "Episode 2 – Leather Chairs and Double Doors"