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Mark is enthusiastic about Neil Gaiman’s latest The Ocean at the End of the Lane. We also discuss whether Brad Pitt is entitled to a victory lap for his adaptation of a show-favourite novel, Max Brooks’ World War Z. We cover: Our initial discussion of WWZ Brad Pitt eating The Vani…

Jon endorses Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken. We also mention: Military Scifi Ender’s Game and Movie John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War John Steakley’s Armor Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s All You Need Is Kill Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War Robert A. Heinlein’s Stars…

Mark feels the love for the godfather of soul behavioural economic theory. We mention: Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow; his Wikipedia page; his TED talk. Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper Franzenfreude Dori…

Jon endorses Jens Lapidus’ Easy Money We also mention: Daniel Suarez’s Kill Decision Tom McCarthy‘s Remainder, Men in Space, and C Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York Dan Chaon’s Stay Awake Nick Harkaway’s Angelmaker and booktrailer Jess Walter’s Beau…

Mark is enthusiastic about the Stephanie Plum novels. There was a (gasp!) delay between recording and posting this episode, so a lot of the books that we talk about as ‘coming soon’ are now, in fact, ‘out recently’ and in some cases ‘out quite a while ago’. We&#…

John endorses Rainbow Rowell’s Attachments We also chat about: Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad Interactive character map by Flip Zembowicz  Paul Haggis Steve Jobs Biography Don Delillo’s White Noise Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding William Gibson’s Ze…

Mark endorses Max Brooks’ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. (A note on pronunciation: Mark and I are both Canadian and so pronounce the letter ‘Z’ as ‘zed’, however, that completely ruins the wordplay of the title of Brooks’ book, so we played alon…

Special guest Taylor Stevens endorses Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox. There is a story behind this episode. It was recorded right before Christmas in 2011. I really dug The Informationist. I was super keen to chat with Taylor. The second Vanessa Munroe book was on the way. I emailed her and s…

Special guest Kevin Chong endorses David McGimpsey’s Li’l Bastard. We also mention: Kevin Chong’s Baroque-a-nova (French Cover) Kevin Chong’s Neil Young Nation Kevin Chong’s Beauty + Pity (trailers) Kevin Chong’s My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love w…